Iranian professors appeal to hardliners to stop the 'Death to America' chants, flag burnings

Here’s a quick “gotcha” quiz on foreign policy: How do you tell an American university professor from an Iranian university professor? The Iranian professor is the one urging the nation’s activists to stop burning American flags and chanting, “Death to America.”

The BBC’s Bahman Kalbasi reports that academics in Iran are standing up against political hardliners.

600 University Professors in #Iran singed an open letter against continued burning of US flag and chants of death to America by hardliners.

— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) September 5, 2015

@BahmanKalbasi Are all of them in jail awaiting sentencing?

— EmileTatum (@SRetsil) September 5, 2015

@SRetsil Nope teaching in Universities across Iran.

— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) September 5, 2015

We wonder how many American professors we could find to sign a letter asking the #BlackLivesMatter movement to stop flying the American flag upside down, spray-painting it, and burning it in the street?

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