Official Russia

This is quite an interesting observation from PoliGazette:

At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential
cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave
his first sermon since Iran’s disputed presidential election and the
subsequent demonstrations. The crowd listening to Rafsanjani inside the
mosque was filled with Ahmadinejad supporters who chanted, among other
things, “Death to America” and “Death to China.” Outside the university
common grounds, anti-Ahmadinejad elements — many of whom were blocked
by Basij militiamen and police from entering the mosque — persistently
chanted “Death to Russia.”

Death to America is an old staple in Iran. Death to China had to do
with the demonstrations in Xinjiang and the death of Uighurs at the
hands of the Chinese. Death to Russia, however, stood out. Clearly, its
use was planned before the protesters took to the streets. The meaning
of this must be uncovered. To begin to do that, we must consider the
political configuration in Iran at the moment.

The Lede blog at the NYT also has a post on this, and see the video after the jump.

Source: Robert Amsterdam