{"id":127065,"date":"2026-03-02T01:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:11:06","slug":"rally-in-pittsburgh-celebrates-leadership-change-in-iran-following-attack-that-killed-supreme-leader-wpxi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127065\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally in Pittsburgh celebrates leadership change in Iran following attack that killed supreme leader \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Local residents are reacting to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/israeli-strikes-rock-tehran-irans-counterattacks-widen-after-killing-its-supreme-leader\/PFX3XEGPINBP3LXH4CGAQ2257A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/israeli-strikes-rock-tehran-irans-counterattacks-widen-after-killing-its-supreme-leader\/PFX3XEGPINBP3LXH4CGAQ2257A\/\">U.S. and Israel\u2019s major attack<\/a> that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Only Channel 11 was in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood Sunday morning when a group of people gathered at the Cathedral of Learning to mark the changes happening in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizer Sepi Miller told us that, for 47 years, the country has been living under a tyrannical regime, and now the world has said enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThe Iranian people are suffocating by this regime,\u201d Miler said. \u201cThe world is suffocating by this regime. And finally, finally it\u2019s come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">She added that her family fled Iran during the Islamic Revolution, and she looks forward to returning now that change is happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">RELATED COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-protesters-oppose-us-strikes-iran\/URLFPIIHQ5CINFIUSBFUSS3CQQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-protesters-oppose-us-strikes-iran\/URLFPIIHQ5CINFIUSBFUSS3CQQ\/\">Pittsburgh protesters oppose US strikes on Iran, military escalation in Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Iran has answered continued strikes by the U.S. and Israel with its own counteroffensive, firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">More than 200 people have reportedly been killed in Iran since the attack began. Meanwhile, the U.S. military says Iran\u2019s strikes have killed three of its service members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Local residents are reacting to the U.S. and Israel\u2019s major attack that killed Iranian Supreme Leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59254,869,41079,59256,59062,139,7814,859,73,75,74,59255,420,860],"class_list":["post-127065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cathedral_of_learning","tag-channel_11","tag-iran","tag-islamic_revolution","tag-middle_east","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-seppi_miller","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}