{"id":7646,"date":"2026-03-07T03:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/7646\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:34:25","slug":"iranian-americans-from-north-texas-head-to-washington-d-c-for-peace-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/7646\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian-Americans from North Texas head to Washington D.C. for peace rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DALLAS – After a week of international conflict, several Iranian-Americans from North Texas will head to Washington D.C. to participate in a unity rally for their home country, hoping for democracy in their homeland.<\/p>\n

\"\" Free Iran rally in Washington D.C. <\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

Homeira Hesami, Reza Hesami and Hannah Jam are three Iranian-Americans who call North Texas home. This weekend, they’ll head to the nation’s capital for a Free Iran unity rally.<\/p>\n

They believe the end to the current regime is a long time coming, and hope Iran transitions to peaceful democracy. All three have their own experiences with the country’s regime.<\/p>\n

“So we have to have a plan in place to prevent chaos.”<\/p>\n

\"\" Family killed by Iranian regime <\/p>\n

Homeira Hesami showed FOX 4’s David Sentendrey a book that’s banned in Iran. It highlighted 20,000 Iranians who were killed resisting the current regime.<\/p>\n

“”There are students. There are physicians, there are like from all factions of life you see over here.”<\/p>\n

Many of the victims were tortured. Others were assassinated or executed.<\/p>\n

One of the victims is Homeira’s cousin, who was executed in 1988.<\/p>\n

“What we don\u2019t have is a regime that takes care of the people,” Reza Hesami said.<\/p>\n

\"\" From political prisoners to peaceful protests <\/p>\n

Jam was born in Iran, but her parents were former political prisoners in the Middle Eastern country. They sought asylum in the United States, ending up in Texas.<\/p>\n

“I was blessed to have a chance to study here, to find a job. Well, what about other people that didn\u2019t have this chance?” Jam told Sentendrey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She recalls being surprised at her first protest that there were no consequences. “I was like,” O.K., they\u2019re going to arrest us? Because I had the mindset back in Iran.”<\/p>\n

Jam still has family in Iran. Her brother recently sent her a photo, seen above, of debris from an explosion believed to have been caused by a drone striking a vehicle near his home. Jam’s brother was unharmed.<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

The Free Iran rally in Washington D.C. is scheduled for 11 a.m. eastern time on Saturday, March 7.<\/p>\n

The Source: Information in this story came from FOX 4 reporting.<\/p>\n

News<\/a>World<\/a>Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS – After a week of international conflict, several Iranian-Americans from North Texas will head to Washington D.C.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4719,4718,34,42,4717,153,1142],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116185796663860231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","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=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}