{"id":5819,"date":"2025-06-22T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5819\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T17:34:07","slug":"philadelphians-rally-for-no-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5819\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphians rally for \u2018No War on Iran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A protester on Saturday carried the Iranian flag with the words \u201cWomen, life, freedom,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucghi.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/how-irans-woman-life-freedom-movement-shaped-movement-across-uc-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slogan adopted by many Iranians<\/a> in the mass movement against the regime following the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 after her arrest by Iran\u2019s morality police.<\/p>\n<p>Parsa said that he and many other Iranian and Iranian-Americans are \u201cnot naive,\u201d and don\u2019t believe that regime change will come from Israel\u2019s war on the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want a stop to the war, but we also want people to know that there is a rhetoric at the left right now, that Islamic Republic is somehow the Axis of Resistance, but people forget that they\u2019re also killing their populace,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re killing their own people. So we just want to bring awareness that Islamic Republic is not good, Israel is not good, and those two facts can \u2026 coexist, and they just have to understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parsa said he and other volunteers with Philly Iranians are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLI9jCGsoRU\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosting a \u201chamdeli,\u201d<\/a> a Farsi word which means \u201cshared heart,\u201d as a gathering for emotional support for the Iranian diasporic community in Philadelphia\u2019s Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want people to know that Iranian people are kind,\u201d Parsa said. \u201cI think we can move past this regime and these times, as long as people actually see us as what we are, as these kind loving people that we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: This story was updated to reflect a quote from State Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Philadelphia, who said \u201cno war with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A protester on Saturday carried the Iranian flag with the words \u201cWomen, life, freedom,\u201d the slogan adopted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,83,99,3097,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-5819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114728224008779483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}