Protest in Front of Swiss Embassy, 13 September0600 GMT: First, the regime brought out the rhetoric for the controversy over the US-produced film "The Innocence of Muslims" --- denouncing the movie but offering no condolences for the deaths from the attacks at and near American embassies --- culminating in the Supreme Leader's statement on Thursday.
Then it sponsored the protests, mobilising a few hundred students in front of the Swiss Embassy on Thursday and then trying --- but generally failing --- to stage a large show after Tehran Friday Prayers.
And now it tries to keep attention on the film and the "enemies" with threats. Yadollah Javani, the head of the Political Bureau of the Revolutionary Guards, said Saturday that Muslim countries should "make the US and Israel pay dearly" for the insult to Islam. He called on them to halt the sale of oil and to "stop buying goods produced by the US or the Zionist regime, which will pose major challenges to the Western economy."
Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani told the Majlis this morning that the "pornographic movies" of the West will "fuel the hatred of Muslims".
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