Iranian demonstrations in the U.S. could prolong their ordeal
Once again, Iranian students were protesting near the White House and testing the limits of American patience. As several hundred supporters of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini gathered last week in Washington's Lafayette Square, they were pelted with eggs, soft tomatoes and ripe fruit by an angry crowd of flag-waving Americans. "Go home! Go home!" shouted a gray-haired woman. Yelled a teenager: "The Shah would know how to deal with you. He'd have you beheaded!"
Just hours earlier, many of these same Iranians had faced a similar...
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