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Today, in a symbolic act, Iranians set fire to the flags of Israel and the United States, as well as an obelisk and a statue of Baal—which they described as a symbol of Satan—in various cities across Iran in response to the release of the Epstein documents.

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[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Please link a source next time, lots of ignorant replies in this thread due to the lack of one explaining the Baal thing.

Why were ‘Baal’ statues burned at Iran’s revolution anniversary rallies?

It's a reference to Epstein.

[–] testingtester@lemmings.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is like the worst source possible for this event from the worst Israel and American backed news agency about Iran possible!!!

[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. But at least it's a source that one can analyse and criticise. To be honest I literally just googled it and picked the first link because I've only read about this in telegram channels. And still, that was more effort than OP put in.