Fresnans Protest Iran’s Murderous ‘Rogue Regime’ – GV Wire

Dozens held signs and carried the American and Iranian flags and gathered on the corner of Blackstone and Nees Avenues in Fresno on Sunday afternoon to protest the Iranian regime.

The demonstration was organized by the Iranian American Alliance of Fresno to protest Iran’s poor human rights record. The event coincided with World Day against the Death Penalty.

“We are gathered here today to oppose the Islamic regime in Tehran, an international rogue regime that has been suppressing human rights and killing dissidents in Iran for 42 years,” said one protester.

Sunday’s protest was organized by the Fresno Iran-American Alliance. (Especially for GV wire)

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Signs called the newly appointed Iranian hardliner President Ebrahim Raisi a “murderer”.

“The so-called Supreme Leader and the so-called Presidents have their hands bloodied directly with the assassination of political dissidents inside and outside the regime,” the protester continued.

According to Amnesty International, Raisi was a member of a “death commission” after the theocratic regime took power in Iran, “which disappeared by force and was extrajudicially executed in secret thousands of political dissidents in the 1980s”.

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A demonstration on the corner of Blackstone and Nees in Fresno was held to mark World Day against the Death Penalty on Sunday, October 10, 2021. (Special to GV Wire)