The demonstrations of anti-Israel hate during Quds Day events in Iran are an opportunity for the Tehran regime and its supporters to voice their stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and their total rejection of any plan that would recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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But sometimes, things simply go awry.
Documentation on social media, published by exiled Iranian opposition leader Masih Alinejad, shows a group of Iranian students, apparently outside a university in Tehran, waving PLO flags and posters with pro-Palestinian slogans, poised to set fire to a large Israeli flag that had apparently been prepared specially for the event.
Watch: A man in Iran catches on fire while burning an Israeli flag during a Quds Day protest. https://t.co/qv4NUU1OEE pic.twitter.com/9q0Cv6W7zI
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But the man assigned to set the flag on fire failed to take prevailing weather conditions into account, and in the seconds it took for the flag to light, a large flame jumped toward him and caught on his clothing. The man is seen running toward his friends, who continue to scream slogans.
Followers of Alinejad's Instagram account were quick to heap insult on injury.
"These people would wind up burning down all of Jerusalem by mistake," wrote one user. Another commented, "They want to throw Israel into the sea, but it looks like they should jump in first."
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