DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES () — A massive crowd of people gathered for a “Global Day of Action” protest in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday in support of the Iranian people’s fight for freedom and human rights.
Tensions have been high in Iran since violent protests erupted in late December.
President Donald Trump has hinted at a possible intervention in Iran, and on Sunday, he’s expected to meet with the country’s world leader, Ali Khamenei, if the Ayatollah agrees to it.
Massive posters were placed on the ground in Grant Park, including one that reads “Reza Pahlavi is our choice.” Pahlavi is the son of the deposed Shah from decades ago, who many Iranians want to see take over from the current Iranian regime, which has murdered tens of thousands of protesters since December.
Another large poster featured Trump and read ‘We are locked and loaded. Help is on its way.”
Protesters began filling the streets of downtown L.A. near City Hall at 1 p.m. on Saturday. By 4 p.m., the crowd was still large, and the demonstration was peaceful.
Demonstrators are calling for an end to the violence in Iran and a regime change immediately.
“Today is a national day of action, as you’ve seen, all around the world… there’s been heaps of people coming out to protest against a regime that is, for all terms and purposes, for the people of Iran, illegitimate,” said protester Sara Seyed. “But the main thing, the most important thing we’re here to ask is, if I were to ask President Trump, Senator Rubio, Mr. Witkoff, Mr. Kushner, is ‘What do you stand to gain from negotiating with a regime that is, by all means, illegitimate? What is there to gain for the betterment of the Iranian people since they don’t have a representative at the table? What is there to gain for the United States peace and security and the world?’ This regime has, by all means, operated in its entirety as a terrorist state. It shoots and kills unarmed civilians who are protesting their basic rights.”
“We’re frustrated because we had President Trump’s promise. He said to my people that he will be there for my defenseless people,” Seyed continued. “We have reached the point where we need immediate and strategic help. No patriotic human being wants an all-out war. But there are so many strategies to completely annihilate the arteries and the lifelines of this regime that has invested in proxies and militias and destruction all around the world.”
The Human Rights Activists News Agency says 7,000 people have been killed by the Iranian regime since December, but others have the count as high as 35,000.
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