Tehran's Media International Festival is experiencing its 16th round from October 20 t0 26-2009. The festival is held in a huge area called Mosala. The place which was initially built for public mass prayer. According to the official announcements, foreign press and news agencies from 34 different countries participated in the festival. Yesterday was its forth day and Friday the weekend for Iranians, so many more people visited the exhibition comparing to previous days. At about 16:00 people unhappy with the June 12th presidential election found an arena to display their dissatisfaction by chanting slogans like "Death to dictator", "Karubi, Musavi (opposition leaders)we support you", "Death to Russia(the country which has been strongly criticized for helping pressurizing the opposition voice both technologically and politically). I was at the Bosnian Booth two doors away from the Russian booth, when I heard people- perhaps a thousand, chanting "Death to Russia". At this moment the festival's authorities, kept the booth's Russian attendant out of sight, lest he gets hurt and covered the Russian flag board on the top of booth's entrance with the most immediate object, which was an Armenian Flag.
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