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Iranian official calls on youth to form human chains around power plants ahead of threatened strikes
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A worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, October 26, 2010. (Majid Asgaripour/Mehr News Agency via AP)
Iran calls on “all young people, athletes, artists, students, university students and their professors” to form human chains around power plants ahead of the threatened US-Israeli strikes.
“Power plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth,” Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, says as he issued the video call in a newscast.
Iran has formed human chains in the past around its nuclear sites at times of heightened tensions with the West.
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