{"id":453030,"date":"2026-03-02T04:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453030\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:10:12","slug":"british-iranians-take-to-manchester-streets-after-us-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453030\/","title":{"rendered":"British Iranians take to Manchester streets after US-Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dainel, who was also at the Manchester rally, reckons many compatriots at home and abroad support the attacks for the time being, adding those at the rally &#8220;want to be the voice of Iranians&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t want this regime because it is doing everything very badly,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the flags waved at the rally, there were some representing the US and Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked if he had trust in US and Israeli leaders, he said: &#8220;We trust them more than the mullahs (religious clerics) in power in Iran because what they say, they do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And we see what the mullahs say, they never do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vahidi is more cautious, saying: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to fantasise and think they have our interest in mind &#8211; obviously any politician thinks about their own and their country&#8217;s interests first and foremost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But at this moment in time, personally as an Iranian and any other person who I have spoken to, there is no other way in front of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dainel, who was also at the Manchester rally, reckons many compatriots at home and abroad support the attacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}