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Demonstrators in Minneapolis raise voices in support of Iran protestors

By Chris Steller | 06.24.09 | 5:58 pm

The message on a Minneapolis street corner Wednesday was unmediated: VIVA IRAN. That and dozens of other slogans of the Iranian protest movement were carried on signs and on the mercifully cooler air that wafted through downtown, where a crowd of as many as 200 people gathered in a semicircle for urgent call-and-response chants.