At Columbus Circle, some Iranian-Americans gathered alongside anti-war organizers reacting to the United States and Israel\u2019s coordinated strikes in Iran targeting military and nuclear sites.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Protesters argue escalation risks widening the conflict
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Supporters say the military intervention was needed
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According to President Donald Trump, the campaign could last for weeks<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand the frustrations of every Iranian, and I\u2019m one of them,\u201d \u00a0Mohammad Khatami, who was at the protest, said.<\/p>\n
According to President Donald Trump, the campaign could last for weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea that we are treacherous enough to want an outside regime to bomb us and to kill innocent us. This is not who we are,\u201d Khatami said.<\/p>\n
Khatami says frustration with Iran\u2019s leadership is real, but foreign military force is not the answer.<\/p>\n
Frustration within Iran boiled over in late December when nationwide protests erupted over the country\u2019s collapsing economy and currency, where Iranian State Media says thousands of people were killed.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople do not want another U.S. war,\u201d protester Gabriela Silva said.<\/p>\n
Organizers at the protest argued that escalation risks widening the conflict.<\/p>\n
Iranian authorities report hundreds of deaths since the strikes began, with counterattacks killing at least six U.S. service members.<\/p>\n
Less than a mile away in Times Square from Columbus Circle, a separate rally of Iranians reached a different conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want a fair and free election,\u201d Sina Mohrranzadah, an Iranian-American supporter of military action, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a war. What we want really is military intervention, so we can help our people,\u201d Saba Moeinzade, an Iranian-American supporter of military action, said.<\/p>\n
For Moeinzade, being under the regime for more than 40 years is precisely why outside pressure is necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow we see this situation right now is the U.S. helping us so that we so that we can gain our dignity and our human rights back,\u201d Moeinzade said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Columbus Circle, some Iranian-Americans gathered alongside anti-war organizers reacting to the United States and Israel\u2019s coordinated strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5450,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,27,200],"class_list":["post-150598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-protests","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}