{"id":189133,"date":"2026-04-08T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:00:07","slug":"nyc-protesters-in-union-square-demand-end-to-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189133\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC protesters in Union Square demand end to war in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/us\/snplus\/international\/2026\/04\/07\/iran-united-states-israel-war-trump-deadline-power-plant-bridges-strait-hormuz-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">backed off his threat<\/a> toward Iran Tuesday night, but for dozens of protesters in Union Square, it wasn\u2019t nearly enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe called this because Trump threatened to destroy the entire Iranian civilization,\u201d an organizer with Refuse Fascism NYC, Travis Morales, said.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump backed off his threat to annihilate Iran Tuesday night, but for dozens of protesters in Union Square, it wasn\u2019t nearly enough<br \/>\n<br \/>\u201cWe called this because Trump threatened to destroy the entire Iranian civilization,\u201d an organizer with Refuse Fascism NYC, Travis Morales, said<br \/>\n<br \/>That threat came Tuesday morning, with the president warning on Truth Social that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight\u201d if Iran didn\u2019t reopen the Strait of Hormuz<br \/>\n<br \/>Just before the protest, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire contingent on the strait reopening, and said a 10-point proposal from Iran is a \u201cworkable basis to negotiate\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That threat came Tuesday morning, with the president warning on Truth Social that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight\u201d if Iran didn\u2019t reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the protest, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire contingent on the strait reopening, and said a 10-point proposal from Iran is a \u201cworkable basis to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid this man is going to destroy our society and all civilization around the globe,\u201d East Village resident Elaine Kerins said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran accepted the ceasefire. For the crowd at Union Square, a temporary halt isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis war is illegitimate, it\u2019s illegal and it\u2019s immoral,\u201d Morales said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going to change anything from your couch other than the channel. So, you have to stand in the streets and if you want change, you have to let people know,\u201d New Jersey resident Ramiro Lopez-Crespo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic leaders really need to stand up&#8230; I know we don\u2019t have the power right now, but we need to see them out with us,\u201d Midtown resident Allison Malafronte said.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire, brokered by Pakistan, may also extend to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>But for many in Union Square, the bigger picture remains deeply unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so hard to talk about because, literally, it makes me want to cry,\u201d Riley, an Upper West Side resident, said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and Iranian negotiators are expected to meet Friday in Islamabad, with a two-week window already counting down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump backed off his threat toward Iran Tuesday night, but for dozens of protesters in Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[106,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-189133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-national-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-louis-finley","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189133","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=189133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}