Iranians rally to support nuke program
Iranians poured into the streets Sunday to mark the 28th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution as part of an event that also is widely seen as a national referendum on Iran’s disputed nuclear program. In the capital, Tehran, hundreds of thousands of people chanted slogans in support of Iran’s nuclear activities including: “Nuclear energy is our right” and “Death to America!” Some demonstrators carried banners highlighting defiant statement’s made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a loudspeaker told the crowd that the rallies were the “response of the Iranian nation to the illegal and invalid U.N. Security Council.” Full Story