“We have no problem with the American and British people,” Ghasem Ghanjani, who owns the flag factory, told Reuters. “If people burn the flags of these countries at different rallies, it is only to show their protest.”ADBecause of those protests, the factory does a robust business. At its busiest, it makes about 2,000 U.S. and Israeli flags a month. Demonstrators burned U.S. and Israeli flags in the protests that followed. Images shared on social media showed people in public places intentionally stepping around American flags placed on the ground for trampling, in an apparent snub to Iranian state propaganda.

Source: Washington Post January 30, 2020 19:48 UTC