\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA small group of anti-war protesters gathered in Schenley Plaza on Wednesday night, voicing opposition to potential U.S. involvement in Iran.Organizers said the demonstration came after a social media post from President Donald Trump threatening to destroy Iran, followed by a ceasefire. \u201cTrump has lied consistently. He bombed Iran twice during negotiations, and so I don’t have faith in him in upholding his end of the bargain,\u201d said organizer June Querques. \u201cAnd so we want to be pressuring him so that he knows that the American people is against this war.\u201dSome protesters said they hope their message influences political leaders.\u201cThis is not something that is universally popular among the American people,\u201d said Glenna, a Duquesne University student. \u201cFor our politicians, for our local politicians to see that, for the RNC to see that, if anybody in the Republican Party is on the fence about this war, to see that it’s not popular among people in Pittsburgh.\u201dNot everyone who encountered the protest agreed with that perspective. Aidan Birkenfeld from Shadyside said he came across the demonstration while in the area and supports a tougher stance on Iran.\u201cI do not support President Trump in a lot of things, but you got to credit where it’s due,\u201d Birkenfeld said. \u201cI think that nukes in Iran is a massive problem for us and our friends and our allies and the Western world and the values that we fight for. So in that case, yes, I would love to see the Islamic Republic removed and a Western-friendly Persian Iran.\u201dBirkenfeld also disagreed with protesters who describe much of the conflict in the Middle East as a genocide.\u201cThese people talk about genocide being a rhetoric and an intent-based thing where they don’t apply a double standard to those Islamic groups who every day exclaim in their daily prayers \u2026 words about Israel and about America,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A small group of anti-war protesters gathered in Schenley Plaza on Wednesday night, voicing opposition to potential U.S. involvement in Iran.<\/p>\n
Organizers said the demonstration came after a social media post from President Donald Trump threatening to destroy Iran, followed by a ceasefire. <\/p>\n
\u201cTrump has lied consistently. He bombed Iran twice during negotiations, and so I don’t have faith in him in upholding his end of the bargain,\u201d said organizer June Querques. \u201cAnd so we want to be pressuring him so that he knows that the American people is against this war.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some protesters said they hope their message influences political leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not something that is universally popular among the American people,\u201d said Glenna, a Duquesne University student. \u201cFor our politicians, for our local politicians to see that, for the RNC to see that, if anybody in the Republican Party is on the fence about this war, to see that it’s not popular among people in Pittsburgh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not everyone who encountered the protest agreed with that perspective. Aidan Birkenfeld from Shadyside said he came across the demonstration while in the area and supports a tougher stance on Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not support President Trump in a lot of things, but you got to credit where it’s due,\u201d Birkenfeld said. \u201cI think that nukes in Iran is a massive problem for us and our friends and our allies and the Western world and the values that we fight for. So in that case, yes, I would love to see the Islamic Republic removed and a Western-friendly Persian Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n
Birkenfeld also disagreed with protesters who describe much of the conflict in the Middle East as a genocide.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese people talk about genocide being a rhetoric and an intent-based thing where they don’t apply a double standard to those Islamic groups who every day exclaim in their daily prayers \u2026 words about Israel and about America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small group of anti-war protesters gathered in Schenley Plaza on Wednesday night, voicing opposition to potential U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[72768,44198,72767,72766,4287,6437,34,17841,8455,72764,41079,59669,73,75,74,49987,72769,368,9858,13987,72765,453,13702,17454],"class_list":{"0":"post-161372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-aidan-birkenfeld","9":"tag-american-people","10":"tag-anti-war-protester","11":"tag-anti-war-protesters","12":"tag-ceasefire","13":"tag-demonstration","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-duquesne-university","16":"tag-genocide","17":"tag-glenna","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-june-querques","20":"tag-pittsburgh","21":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","22":"tag-pittsburgh-news","23":"tag-politician","24":"tag-potential-u-s-involvement","25":"tag-president-donald-trump","26":"tag-schenley-plaza","27":"tag-thing","28":"tag-u-s-involvement","29":"tag-war","30":"tag-wednesday-night","31":"tag-word"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161372","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=161372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}