Iranian Expats Demonstrate Against Islamic Republic
Charles Johnson
Wed Nov 2, 2005 at 10:55 am PST • Views: 208
LGF operative zombie covers a different sort of rally in Berkeley with this new report: Rally Against the Iranian Regime, U.C. Berkeley, Nov. 1, 2005.
On November 1, a group of Iranian expatriates (and their supporters) held a rally and press conference at the entrance to the U.C. Berkeley campus, at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue. The event was announced through an online press release and a notice on Yahoo news.
The event was arranged as a response to the statements by Iranian president Ahmadinejad calling for Israel to be destroyed and “wiped off the map.”
Iranians in the United States — many of whom fled here to escape the Islamic revolution in 1979 — were outraged by the anti-Israel comments, and wanted to let the world know that not all Iranians support these extremist views. At the rally, they not only condemned Ahmadinejad’s statements, but they warned of Iran’s impending acquisition of nuclear weapons, and called for the overthrow of Ahmadinejad and the entire Islamic regime.
Any protest such as this held inside Iran would have been illegal, and the protesters would have been immediately arrested and most likely executed.
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