{"id":671885,"date":"2026-01-03T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:41:11","slug":"members-of-iranian-diaspora-in-uk-rally-in-london-to-support-protesters-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671885\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of Iranian diaspora in UK rally in London to support protesters in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Members of the Iranian diaspora rallied in London on Saturday in support of protesters in Iran, where demonstrations have spread to more than two dozen cities over the last week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Around 100 pro-democracy demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street for the rally organised by the Association of Anglo-Iranian Women in the UK, waving Iranian flags, chanting slogans and listening to speeches by speakers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A separate protest of a similar size was held nearby in support of the deposed shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his US-based son, Reza Pahlavi.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt is really important that we show our solidarity with the people of Iran,\u201d Zohreh Zanjani, 65, a former political prisoner in Iran who fled the country three decades ago, told Agence France-Presse as she joined the Association of Anglo-Iranian Women event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to make a bridge between the people inside Iran and outside of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran<\/a>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSo people like myself, we get courage from the people of Iran\u2019s resistance and of course they get courage from seeing that their voices have been heard outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-qa=\"Component-StyledBlockquote\" class=\"css-se4oaj e1t6i3s45\"><p>It\u2019s not just the women and the youth anymore that are rising up against the Iranian regime &#8230; It\u2019s people from all walks of life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fara Hosseimi, lawyer born in London to Iranian parents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Iranian diaspora rallied in London on Saturday in support of protesters in Iran, where demonstrations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[29621,204486,748,12190,393,204482,4884,774,204485,257,76120,204483,132119,16,15,978,204484],"class_list":{"0":"post-671885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-association-of-anglo-iranian-women","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-downing-street","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-fara-hosseimi","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-iranian-diaspora","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-mohammad-reza-pahlavi","19":"tag-omid-ebrahimi","20":"tag-reza-pahlavi","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-zohreh-zanjani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115833109467138192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}