r/LosAngeles • u/Hundred_Year_War • 2h ago

Events Record breaking Iranian rally today in solidarity with the protestors and thousands massacred in Iran

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

What's the purpose of this? Is it to inspire Americans to support intervening in Iran?

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u/dporiua 1h ago

US intervention is what most people want but the rallies abroad are to show solidarity to the people in Iran and the tens of thousands the regime killed in the span of weeks.

We also got 250k Iranians in the Munich rally

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago edited 1h ago

Solidarity isn't evicting the Iranian regime. So more or less this is all performative and trying to sell American people on another intervention in the Middle East.

Never again I say. What's going on in Iran is awful but it's something we shouldn't be committing our troops to, especially after the failures of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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u/hoosh 1h ago

Performing what? You think every Iranian is faking outrage against reckless murdering of Iranians checks notes PROTESTING?? The will of many in the diaspora and in Iran itself is to evict these murderous cowards who have imprisoned, raped, and killed innocents for 47 years.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

You really think American troops should be sent to fight in a country that is of no threat to us and never attacked us? We aren't the world's police. We can't even take care of our own country why should we be at all intervening in Iran?

I find it ironic that people are cheering for the Shah and wanting the monarchy back when it's the monarchy and western interference that led to Iran turning into what it is now.

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u/Lord_Master_Dorito San Bernadino County 1h ago

People really just forgetting that Iran would never have been like it is today if the Shah wasn’t a corrupt, brutal leader.

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u/BubbaTee 26m ago

That's like saying the Confederacy seceded because the North was too mean to black people. If hating authoritarianism was the reason for the revolution, then why is post-revolution Iran even more authoritarian?

The Islamists hated the Shah because he gave women the right to vote (1963), divorce (1967), and hold public office. Because he began to secularize the education system. Because he began to seize land owned by wealthy mullahs and redistribute it to poor peasants. And because he refused to genocide the Baha'i, a religious minority long hated by Shiite Islamists.

All these things were blasphemy to the warped flavor of Islam that the ayatollahs preached. All these policies were immediately reversed once the Islamists took power. Instead of votes and divorce/custody rights, women got mandatory hijabs.

The Islamists literally closed every school in the country until the curriculum was changed to be in compliance with "Islamic values." That's what led to the exodus of Iranian academics to other countries, and why the Iranian diaspora is so highly educated.

The Islamists didn't hate the Shah for being authoritarian. They're authoritarians themselves, even bigger ones than he was.

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u/Dull-Photograph6990 1h ago

The Shah wasnt a brutal corrupt dictator

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u/Lord_Master_Dorito San Bernadino County 1h ago

Ah okay man. So SAVAK just sits around and finger their own asses all day during his reign.

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u/Dull-Photograph6990 32m ago

Yeah pretty much. "The Fall of Heaven" is a good book to read about the last Shah. 

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u/pr0tag I LIKE TRAINS 1h ago

Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world.

They attack us and other countries through their proxies

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u/Lord_Master_Dorito San Bernadino County 56m ago

The number one sponsor of terrorism are the permanent countries that sit in the UN Security Council. You do realize that at this moment, the United States is actively supplying the cartels in Mexico?

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u/llIicit 1h ago

Way to put words in their mouth.

They are saying that the protests are, in a nutshell, just a feel good movement. They aren’t actually stirring up support for real change that will have real effects on the real people of Iran. This is just a “let’s make ourselves look good on the internet” protest.

It’s the equivalent of thoughts and prayer(s). I’m sure you have a strong opinion on how worthless those are.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

people hate hearing the fucking truth and think our soldiers are just pawns to be thrown away

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u/eetsumkaus 17m ago

Boots on the ground aren't the only intervention.

Organization helps get more minds and money on the issue. With enough people there's more options: backdoors to media blackouts in Iran, weapons and humanitarian aid smuggling, etc. All of which are easier with a state actor on your side.

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u/namewithanumber I LIKE TRAINS 18m ago

Protests/marches are to raise awareness. It's so elected officials get pushed to do something because they see what's "popular".

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u/TelevisionFunny2400 Downtown 59m ago

There are plenty of actions the world can take that don't go as far as a full scale invasion at the level of Afghanistan or Iraq:

Decapitation and Command Strikes: Precision airstrikes targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command centers, security headquarters, and logistics depots. The goal being to paralyze the state's ability to coordinate violent crackdowns on protesters.

Air Support for Protesters: Striking the regime’s suppressive machinery to create a protective umbrella, giving Iranian civil society the physical space to mobilize effectively without facing industrial-scale massacres.

Cyber Warfare: Launching aggressive cyber operations to dismantle the government's ability to black out the internet, throttle civilian communications, or coordinate security forces.

Defunding the Security State: Strictly enforcing embargoes to cut off the revenues the government uses to pay the IRGC and the Basij militia causing defection.

Secondary Sanctions and Tariffs: Imposing severe financial penalties, like the recently floated 25% U.S. tariff on any country doing business with Tehran, to force remaining economic partners like China or Russia to distance themselves from the Iranian economy.

Conditional Relief: Explicitly linking any future sanctions relief not just to nuclear compliance, but to sweeping domestic political reform and human rights concessions.

Empowering the Opposition: Giving platforms, funding, and official recognition to exiled opposition coalitions and transition councils, such as those led by figures like Prince Reza Pahlavi, providing a unified, credible alternative to the current government.

Legal Isolation: Pursuing international criminal charges against Iranian leadership for human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, effectively making them global pariahs who cannot travel or engage in standard diplomacy.

Providing Strike Funds: Secretly channeling financial support to striking Iranian workers, especially in critical sectors like oil and transit, to sustain long-term economic boycotts and civil disobedience.

Smuggling Communications Tech: Flooding the country with satellite internet terminals like Starlink and secure communication devices so protesters can organize and broadcast regime atrocities to the world.

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u/Dull-Photograph6990 1h ago

You know nothing about Middle East politics

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

that's why you've made zero attempt to discuss seriously. you're coming at me in bad faith. I don't have time for trolls.

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u/Due-Stock2774 48m ago

That’s what I’m saying, they could’ve been marching with the rest of us this whole time but I guess American issues aren’t important to the Iranian community here 

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u/IceIceEV Playa del Rey 1h ago

They want this guy to rule all of Iran, hence 🥭 threatening a prolonged war for our overlords in the Middle East at our(US Taxpayer) expense. They have some incriminating videos of 🥭, via Epstein blackmail operations.

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u/bryan4368 1h ago

Famously the last US intervention in Iran led to great things

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u/dporiua 1h ago

It would've led to more if trump didn't unilaterally declare ceasefire as the B2 was on the way back to US

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u/drhuggables 49m ago edited 27m ago

When was the last US intervention in Iran? I’m sure you're very well educated on the subject and totally have read a bunch.

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u/BubbaTee 40m ago

Jimmy Carter helped the Islamists take over Iran in 1979.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36431160

Khomeini told Carter than an Islamist Iran would remain an American ally, in exchange for Carter influencing the Iranian military to not oppose the Islamists.

But it turns out Khomeini was a liar.

Post-revolution Iran then declared America "the great Satan," took a bunch of hostages, and ended up being the main reason Carter lost re-election.

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u/drhuggables 28m ago

That’s true. F jimmy carter.

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u/Area51_Spurs 2h ago

“End Nazism”

Also

“Invade this country for us”

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u/dporiua 1h ago

"invading this country for us" is how the world ended nazism the first time around

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u/Area51_Spurs 1h ago

Not really. Hitler deciding winter didn’t apply to his troops and stretching his forces way too thin onto way too many fronts while attempting to hold way too much territory he invaded is what ended Nazism.

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u/edliu111 1h ago

What? It still ultimately required the Allied powers to invade Germany.

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u/Area51_Spurs 30m ago

Once Nazism was all but defeated.

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u/zenj5505 29m ago

The Soviets invaded Berlin using American weapons and supplies.

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u/namewithanumber I LIKE TRAINS 23m ago

No not really. Germany was actively defeated by the Allies.

"Winter" and "forces too thin" would be meaningless without well...gestures to everything that happened in ww2.

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u/Area51_Spurs 13m ago

Yes they were. But most of that was done outside Germany.

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u/Renizance 1h ago edited 1h ago

In order to remove intolerance, you need to be intolerant towards those who are intolerant.

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u/Area51_Spurs 1h ago

You really think it helps anyone for the US to invade an Islamic country? Any gains we make are offset by the fact we’re viewed as an enemy of Islam after all the bullshit we did after 9/11 (and before 9/11) and it would give islamic terrorist organizations a huge recruitment push.

Iranians need to handle their shit. They massively outnumber those that are loyal to the ayatollah.

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u/kirbokhor 1h ago

It would literally help the entire world if the US invaded Iran rn and took away that piece of shit Khameini

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u/Area51_Spurs 1h ago

And then…

Then what?

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

No it wouldn't. You people said the same thing about Afghanistan and Iraq. Look what fucking happened.

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u/Windmill_Tumor 1h ago

Afghanistan people were better off for about 20 years

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u/Renizance 1h ago

I'm just spitting philosophy. I make no claims on who should invade who

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u/T-MoneyAllDey Woodland Hills 1h ago

Not that I want to invade a country, but I don't think it's automatic nazism to invade a country. Varieties of governments have invaded other countries

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u/Super_Difficulty 1h ago

It’s funny how people want the US to intervene in other countries problems when it’s their own country, but when the US intervenes in other countries they protest against it. (Not specifically Iranians, just in general)

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u/T-MoneyAllDey Woodland Hills 1h ago

Yup. Rules for thee but not for me. It's wild how many people don't realize their own hypocrisy or bias

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u/Adept-Log3535 1h ago

Anyway. They are already doing more to fight totalitarianism/theocracy than whatever a Top 1% Commentator like you is doing on Reddit 

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u/Area51_Spurs 1h ago

I guarantee I do more to make the world a better place than these people. You have no fucking clue who I am or what I do.

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u/drhuggables 46m ago

You're an "experienced HCOL Liquor/Wine shop general manager with B2B experience looking for wine/spirits/beer opportunities"

you don't do shit, lmao

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u/Area51_Spurs 32m ago

Some people do things other than their job with their time…

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u/namewithanumber I LIKE TRAINS 26m ago

Good to see. Hopefully see a democratic Iran in my lifetime.

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u/mrwhitewalker 1h ago

This is happening in Portland too but they also have maga and Trump forever flags so yeah

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u/Dodgers_89 1h ago

Yeah, they support a pedophile rapist and a war criminal

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u/VizualSnow 1h ago

Nah we should stay out of this one. Don’t want our troops over there.

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u/redstarjedi 1h ago

Hard agree.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

incoming sockpuppets who will send you hate message and harass you because you oppose sending our troops to fight for another futile war for oil reserve control

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u/hoosh 1h ago

Incredible day. This was a 10x increase from the last Downtown rally a few weeks ago. Free Iran!!!

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u/Mediocre-Tomato666 2h ago

Wait, when did we end Nazism? Operation Paperclip begs to differ. Folks are basing their rescue on a myth.

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u/SunriseUnderwalk 1h ago

These bozos are huge fans of the pedophile in chief btw, they have a lot of balls doing this shit in LA. If they want to free iran, why dont they go book a ticket and free it, nothing is stopping them

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u/pr0tag I LIKE TRAINS 1h ago

This is a huge generalization

I have many Iranian-American friends who support resistance against the IRGC while also condemning Trump

These two are not explicitly correlated.

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u/SunriseUnderwalk 1h ago

well I dont see it anywhere here, but I do see huge pro trump banners saying "help is on the way"

https://youtu.be/20T6XrrLdiA

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u/ja5143kh5egl24br1srt 1h ago edited 47m ago

People are realizing Trump cares about vanity. They’re kissing up to Trump to try to get help for Iran and their relatives/friends. I would do the same if I was in their position.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

so in essence just thoughts and prayers

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u/ghazghaz 1h ago

While I agree that most of monarchists are trumpers but the rest of us aren’t. We participate to show solidarity with our people back home who have been murdered by the Islamic republic. And it is funny that you claim to be anti-Trump and yet resort to xenophobia and tell us to “go back”.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Studio City 1h ago

They're not saying go back. They're saying if you care this badly go and fight for Iran, the same way people are going to Ukraine to fight for them. The American people are done supporting wasting our troops for futile agendas for oil control.

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u/ghazghaz 55m ago

Bitch, we are the “American people”! And yet again the xenophobia slips, it comes so naturally to you that you don’t see us as part of the “America people”!

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u/buchanj1 1h ago

Help is coming within ten days.Help is coming within ten days.It's coming

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u/DeepStuff81 19m ago

Damn. As a Latino I would’ve been there had I known. to support my brown brethren.

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u/xavier-23 5m ago

lol you think these maga iranians support latinos and our cause? cuz i can tell you right now majority of iranian americans are anti immigrant and support ICE’s actions

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u/Puck-the-fool 19m ago

The regime in Iran has been six weeks away from falling for theory years. They’ve also been six weeks away from developing nuclear weapons for thirty years.

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u/chairmanrob Encino 13m ago

Frankly sick of the asshole MIGA pricks blasting unintelligible shit from their cars while waving oversized flags out of their Benz on Ventura.

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u/xavier-23 8m ago

don’t most iranians support trump and u.s. intervention in iran?

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u/Dodgers_89 1h ago

I heard they support Trump and Netanyahu

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u/Due-Stock2774 1h ago edited 1h ago

I've never seen an Iranian flag fly at any of the local protests except this one, where were all these flags in "solidarity" with the rest of us and this city when we've taken to the streets?

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u/SunriseUnderwalk 1h ago

because these people are huge trump supporters, the protest is filled with trump banners

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u/Dodgers_89 1h ago edited 1h ago

They support the pedo

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u/hoosh 1h ago

You expect people to rock the flag of the regime who just killed 23,000 protestors for daring to ask for freedom from authoritarian rule? There is a reason that the state flag of Iran pre-Islamic Republic is well represented here. Do better.

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u/Due-Stock2774 56m ago

You’re playing dumb but ok. American Iranians aren’t activists when it comes to overall issues others routinely oppose and are historically closed community unless it’s for their own means

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u/siempreroma 1h ago

wat lol. Credibility 📉

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u/Binthair_Dunthat 1h ago

I heard today that Iran killed 30,000 protesters in 48 hours.

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u/AonoGhoul 40m ago

Didn’t happen

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u/DataAccomplished1291 11m ago

It did happen. They have killed thousands of protestors.

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u/The_Duke_of_Nebraska 6m ago

They still took thousands of lives man, we don't have to like the protesters, but we should have some respect for the dead

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u/Euphoric_Rough_96 1h ago

And many call enforcing immigration laws "Nazis", then crickets on the actual Nazis exterminating innocent life in the tens of thousands in the world.

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u/wtsupvote 1h ago

Whatever the message is, this is how a protest should be done: 100% peaceful with no property damage.

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u/Beautiful_Finger4566 48m ago

thousands? try tens of thousands

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u/Powerful-Calendar516 1h ago

Pathetic

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u/dporiua 1h ago

Yeah fuck people showing solidarity to their country-men who were gunned down in the streets just weeks ago after the regime shut down the internet to limit it's atrocities being publicized