{"id":139660,"date":"2026-01-19T03:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139660\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:03:25","slug":"thousands-rally-peacefully-in-california-in-support-of-protesters-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139660\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally peacefully in California in support of protesters in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A few thousand demonstrators gathered Sunday in Los Angeles in support of protesters <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-protests-deaths-trump-khamenei-95207b62fb2c8a4f3745d981ea0f9849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marchers, some waving the flag of Iran before the Islamic Revolution, rallied downtown near Los Angles City Hall. <\/p>\n<p>The police department estimated the \u201cSolidarity with the People of Iran\u201d event drew about 4,000 demonstrators. The rally was peaceful and there were no arrests, the department said. <\/p>\n<p>Activists say a crackdown on <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nationwide protests against the theocracy in Iran<\/a> has killed thousands of people. Protesters have flooded the streets in Iran\u2019s capital of Tehran and its second-largest city.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is home to the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/los-angeles-iranian-diaspora-israel-iran-war-37a2bec87bd1982e709df5efdbc01d60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest Iranian community<\/a> outside of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A few thousand demonstrators gathered Sunday in Los Angeles in support of protesters in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,18,19378,48,52,51,47,50,49,13,9110,34127,17],"class_list":["post-139660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-general-news","tag-iran","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-tehran","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}