{"id":11920,"date":"2018-09-28T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2018-09-28T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:37:01","slug":"iranians-demonstrate-in-new-york-against-presence-of-iran-regimes-president-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/11920\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians Demonstrate in New York Against Presence of Iran Regime\u2019s President at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranians from across the world gathered in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York For the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/second-day-protests-new-york-against-presence-iranian-regimes-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second consecutive day<\/a> on September 26, 2018, to protest against the presence of Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime&#8217;s president, and to echo the demands of thousands of protesters in Iran who are calling for regime change in their country. Yesterday, the protesters gathered for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iranians-gather-new-york-protest-against-rouhanis-presence-unga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar protest<\/a>\u00a0despite unfavorable weather conditions while Rouhani spoke at the 73<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0UN General Assembly summit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_11488\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Gt2NUs4K4g?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org&#038;autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=1&#038;playlist=9Gt2NUs4K4g&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;hl=en_US&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s demonstration also featured speeches by politicians, religious leaders, members of the National Council of Iran (NCRI) and representatives of the Syrian opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have come here to protest against the presence of Rouhani at the United Nations,\u201d said one protester, who had traveled from California to New York. \u201cRouhani does not represent the Iranian people. He is not the president of Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-2-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-2-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-2.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The protesters used different ways to put on display the crimes and illegal activities of the Iranian regime, of which there\u2019s a long list. Most concerning in the agenda of Rouhani, who has been received as a state leader at the UN and is being framed as a \u201cmoderate\u201d figure by many western politicians, is the worrying spike of executions during his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures published by the Iranian opposition and confirmed by many international human rights organizations, more than 3,500 people have been executed during six years of Rouhani\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently the Iranian regime\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-three-kurdish-political-prisoners-executed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executed three Kurdish political prisoners<\/a>\u00a0despite international calls for halting the sentences. Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International had pointed out that the sentences were handed out based on forced confessions, extracted under torture. The executions triggered a widespread wave of strikes in Iran\u2019s Kurdish cities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-3-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-3-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-3-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Demonstrations-of-Iranians-in-NYC-3.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The protesters also raised their voice to bring attention to the increased terrorist activities of the Iranian regime, especially against the Iranian opposition. In the past year alone, authorities in U.S. and European countries have foiled at least three terrorist plots against the PMOI\/MEK and the NCRI in which agents of the Iranian regime were involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to be the voice of the people of Iran, who are being tortured and executed by the Iranian regime on a daily basis,\u201d said one of the protesters. \u201cOur people are suffering from severe poverty. They\u2019re selling their body organs just to make ends meet. No state should enter trade deals with this regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deteriorating economic conditions triggered nationwide protests in Iran in December, but the demonstrations quickly turned into anti-government uprisings that demanded the ouster of the mullahs from Iran. The Iranian regime has tried to lay the blame on foreign countries, but protesters in Iran have made it clear in their slogans that government corruption and expenditure on meddling in neighboring countries are the main cause of economic problems.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators in New York hailed the Iranian resistance units, groups of MEK supporters in Iran who are helping spread and organize demonstrations across Iran despite the regime\u2019s efforts to suppress protests.\u00a0\u201cFrom New York, we hail all resistance units in Iran,\u201d the protesters chanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Iranians from across the world gathered in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York For the second consecutive day on September 26, 2018, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/11920\/\" title=\"Iranians Demonstrate in New York Against Presence of Iran Regime\u2019s President at UN\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-report","category-iranresistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11926,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions\/11926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}