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Anti-U.S. billboards ordered taken down in Tehran

27-10-2013 09:50 AM


Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - NEW YORK: Anti-American sentiment is nothing new in Iran. But what about government officials ordering that billboards expressing such views be taken down?

That's what is happening Tehran, where billboards bearing anti-U.S. slogans were collected, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency and reported by a US television.

Hadi Ayazi, a spokesman for Tehran municipality, told reporters that a cultural institute had installed the billboards without the consent of Tehran municipality's cultural council, IRNA reports.

The move comes during a seeming thaw in U.S.-Iran relations, amid ongoing talks over the latter's nuclear program. U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian Hassan Rouhani have even exchanged letters, with both signalling openness to further improvement.

Still, like the stringent U.S.-led sanctions imposed on Iran, the animosity and tension aren't entirely gone. On the same English-language front page of IRNA, for instance, there was a story in which Ali Larijani, speaker of Iran's Parliament, criticized "some talkative creatures" in U.S. politics for criticizing Iran and its involvement in a possible political solution in Syria.


* The International News




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