There's a factory in Iran that makes only one product: flags. These flags have been giving the factory a good and steady stream of income -- all because they are so in-demand, especially for Iranian protesters who want to burn them.
Iran's biggest flag factory exclusively makes US, Israeli and British flags for Iranian protesters to burn.
In Khomeini City, the birthplace of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, a four-hour drive south of the country's capital lies a building that houses a production line, where young men and women can be seen in the factory printing the flags using their hands.
Each flag is painstakingly printed on a large stone platform with templates before these are hung to dry and later washed. For instance, one flag - a customized flag of Israel - is particularly popular. On the cloth, the Star of David with the words 'Death to Israel' are printed in Persian alongside it.
The factory, with more than 42 workers, can churn up around 2,000 US and Israeli flags per month during peak periods. That is over a a million square feet of cloth material created solely for one purpose: to burn.
Frictions between Tehran and Washington have deepened in the last several years after a top general of the Iranian military, Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated in a US drone attack in Baghdad Airport last January 3.
The drone attack prompted the Islamic Republic to respond with a barrage of missiles launched against a US military facility in Iraq days later.
Iranian protesters are known to burn the flags of the US and Britain during government-supported demonstrations in the country.
As animosities with the US have deepened in recent weeks, the factory enjoys a roaring trade making flags for destruction.
Ghasem Ghanjani, who operates and owns the Diba Parcham Flag factory, said they have no problem with the American and British people. "We have a problem with their governors and presidents," he stressed.
Ghanjani said they are not "responsible for how people use them" and hope for friendship, peace and love for all the countries despite any kind of use of these flags.
Ghanjani added that If the people burn the flags of these countries at different rallies, it is only to "show their anger."
Rezaei, a quality control manager, who refused to give her first name, said that compared to the "cowardly actions" of the United States, the burning of American flags is "the least that can be done."
