{"id":30190,"date":"2026-03-21T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/30190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:37:06","slug":"philadelphia-iran-war-protest-targets-mccormick-fetterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/30190\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Iran war protest targets McCormick, Fetterman"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Dozens of protesters gathered in Philadelphia on Saturday to demand<\/a> that Pennsylvania\u2019s U.S. senators, Dave McCormick and John Fetterman, take action to bring an end to the U.S. and Israel\u2019s joint offensive in Iran<\/a>, which ignited last month.\n<\/p>\n

Protesters held signs reading \u201cStop dropping bombs on Iran\u201d and \u201cHis war, your kids\u201d as they marched from the respective senators\u2019 Philadelphia offices to converge at City Hall.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand engagement,\u201d Aminah McNulty, 34, said. \u201cWe demand our elected officials to speak for the people, and we are saying one thing. That is, \u2018End the war.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\"IranAround 50 people marched from U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick\u2019s office in Center City Philadelphia to City Hall in protest of the U.S. war on Iran on Saturday, March 21, 2026. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)<\/p>\n

The West Philadelphia resident attended the protest as a member of Philadelphia Prayers for Peace Alliance, one of the organizing groups. Others included CODEPINK Philadelphia; If Not Now; Indivisible Philadelphia; Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW! and the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.\n<\/p>\n

State Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Philadelphia, and state Rep. Chris Rabb, D-Philadelphia, who is running to represent the 3rd Congressional District<\/a> in this spring\u2019s Democratic primary, spoke at the City Hall rally.\n<\/p>\n

Neither McCormick nor Fetterman responded to a request for comment. In early March, both senators voted against advancing a war powers resolution<\/a> that would require congressional approval for U.S. military attacks on Iran.\n<\/p>\n

On Friday, President Donald Trump said he was considering \u201cwinding down\u201d<\/a> operations in the Middle East, even as the U.S. has sent thousands of additional troops to the Middle East and U.S., Israeli and Iranian airstrikes continue<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

More than 1,300 Iranian civilians<\/a> have been killed in the conflict, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency<\/a>, and at least 13 U.S. service members<\/a> have been killed since the war began.\n<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities. Fifteen Israeli civilians have been killed by Iranian airstrikes, and two Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Four Palestinian civilians were killed in an Iranian airstrike in the occupied West Bank.\n<\/p>\n

In Iraq, 60 people have been killed, and in the Gulf states, at least 20 people have been killed<\/a> in the conflict.\n<\/p>\n

Faramarz Farbod, an Iranian American and a professor at Moravian College in Pennsylvania, decried the airstrike on a girls\u2019 school in the town of Minab in southern Iran<\/a>. Carried out on the first day of the war, it killed 165 to 180 people, according to Iranian authorities, mostly girls ages 7 to 12, and injured almost 100 more people.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we talk about opposing war, this is what we mean,\u201d he said. \u201cNot strategies, not geopolitics, but children, hospitals, children under fire, under rubble, cities under fire, people under rubble.\u201d
\n\"IranAround 50 people marched from U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick\u2019s office in Center City Philadelphia to City Hall in protest of the U.S. war on Iran on Saturday, March 21, 2026. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

Evidence from multiple investigations<\/a> suggests the strike was carried out by the United States, while President Donald Trump has denied responsibility and said Iran was responsible for the attack<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[14167,34,196,2789,309],"class_list":["post-30190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-david-mccormick","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-john-fetterman","tag-trump-administration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116269563428830103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}