EU military attaches walk out at Iran parade

[ECH1969]

EU military attaches walked out in protest at a parade in Tehran Thursday after ballistic missiles were rolled past carrying vitriolic anti-US and Israeli slogans, diplomats told AFP.

"There was a common position among the European Union members that, if the military parade included any slogans that attacked our allies, we would leave," said a diplomat.

At the parade, Iran showed off six of its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles sporting banners reading "Death to America", "We will crush America under our feet", "Death to Israel" and "Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth".

"They may be just slogans, but for us they are unacceptable," one of the diplomats said.

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[CottonBear]

1. Those Iranians aren't very subtle are they? n/t

[rockymountaindem]

2. It's nice to see we still get respect

We should make sure Hannity and O'Reilly don't try to report that the Europeans stood and cheered.

[teryang]

3. Why don't they change their jingos to "clash of civilizations"

Perhaps that would be more acceptable.