{"id":598698,"date":"2026-04-12T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598698\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:54:30","slug":"iranian-canadians-call-on-u-s-to-keep-up-military-pressure-at-embassy-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598698\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Canadians call on U.S. to keep up military pressure at embassy rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa on Saturday to call for continued military pressure in Iran.<\/p>\n

Many of the people at Saturday’s rally said they\u2019re hoping to amplify the voices of people inside the country, where communication has been restricted for weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is the 43rd day that Iranian people are under the Internet blackout<\/a>,\u201d said Soorena Noori, co-founder of Iran Revival Hub, an organization focused on \u201cthe reconstruction of Iran after the Islamic Republic,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

Noori said that blackout has meant extremely limited contact with his family back in Iran. He described a recent call with his parents that lasted only minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot contact them from outside. It’s only one way from inside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"ASoorena Noori, co-founder of the Iran Revival Hub, says it’s been incredibly difficult to stay in touch with his family in Iran. (Cameron Mahler\/CBC)<\/p>\n

For Behrooz Sharif Naeini, who also has family in Iran, the cutoff is deeply personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more than a month now that I don\u2019t have any contact with them,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not even one second that I\u2019m not thinking of them. I am eating, I’m thinking. I am sleeping, I’m thinking.”<\/p>\n

Naeini said he hopes U.S.-Iran talks result in the emergence of a new political system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to get back our country, to have our civilization, our culture and our own government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nothing goes back to normal\u2019<\/p>\n

Saturday marks the first day of face-to-face talks between the U.S. and Iran<\/a> in Pakistan. <\/p>\n

Since the war began on Feb. 28, at least 3,000 people in Iran have died, along with 2,020 people in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states.<\/p>\n

The war has also largely cut off the Persian Gulf from the global economy,\u00a0sending energy prices soaring.<\/p>\n

The talks between the warring countries had some demonstrators in Ottawa Saturday hoping the outcome doesn\u2019t leave the Iranian people behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat people inside Iran are demanding \u2026 is that the job that has been started by the U.S. and Israel should not be left in the middle and undone,\u201d Noori said.<\/p>\n

\"ANegar Movahedi says the only hope for a free Iran is through copntinued U.S. intervention. (Cameron Mahler\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Demonstrators like Negar Movahedi are concerned international talks could result in a deal that leaves Iran’s current leadership in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if they get to a deal \u2026 nothing goes back to normal,\u201d said Movahedi, who has extended family in Iran. \u201cThey\u2019re executing people. They shut down the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Movahedi said she believes outside support is critical, particularly from the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment, I think our only hope to a free country is the help of U.S.,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-598698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}