{"id":18732,"date":"2020-01-14T09:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:54:50","slug":"toronto-star-toronto-several-dozen-iranian-canadians-gathered-in-toronto-monday-to-show-solidarity-with-those-in-iran-who-are-protesting-their-countrys-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2020\/01\/14\/toronto-star-toronto-several-dozen-iranian-canadians-gathered-in-toronto-monday-to-show-solidarity-with-those-in-iran-who-are-protesting-their-countrys-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star: TORONTO \u2014 Several dozen Iranian-Canadians gathered in Toronto Monday to show solidarity with those in Iran who are protesting their country\u2019s government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several dozen Iranian-Canadians gathered in Toronto Monday to show solidarity with those in Iran who are protesting their country\u2019s government in the wake of the deadly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/iran-plane-crash.html\"><strong>downing of a passenger jet<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters in Toronto want to see regime change in Iran and the installation of a democratic system.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has said its forces accidentally shot down a Ukraine International Airlines flight bound for Kyiv last week, killing all 176 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of passengers were en route to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Mourning over a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3 turned to anger on the streets of Tehran after the country\u2019s government on Saturday admitted responsibility for the jet crash.<\/p>\n<p>Hamid Gharajeh, a spokesman for the Iran Democratic Association of Canada, says protesters here are dealing with mixture of profound sadness and overwhelming anger after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to cope. It\u2019s very sad times,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are really fed up and they cannot stay quiet anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in Toronto marched around a growing makeshift memorial in the city\u2019s north end that is home to a large Iranian expat population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Several dozen Iranian-Canadians gathered in Toronto Monday to show solidarity with those in Iran who are protesting their country\u2019s government in the wake of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2020\/01\/14\/toronto-star-toronto-several-dozen-iranian-canadians-gathered-in-toronto-monday-to-show-solidarity-with-those-in-iran-who-are-protesting-their-countrys-government\/\" title=\"Toronto Star: TORONTO \u2014 Several dozen Iranian-Canadians gathered in Toronto Monday to show solidarity with those in Iran who are protesting their country\u2019s government\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[433,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18734,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions\/18734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}