Pro and anti Iranian regime rallies held in Sydney
"We want to create awareness, and break the silence being imposed on the Iranian people," says Daniel Taghaddos.
The contrast could not have been clearer at two protests in Sydney’s CBD last Sunday.
While flags of Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran were held, and pro-regime slogans chanted, by attendees at a large pro-Palestine rally at Hyde Park, a group of several dozen Iranian-Australians – joined by several Jewish Sydneysiders – held a peaceful counter-protest in solidarity with the people of Iran and Israel.
Meanwhile, on the same day in Melbourne, pro-Palestine protesters – in vocal support of Iran’s regime – brought traffic to a standstill, as they marched 5km along St Kilda Road to the US Consulate.
At Hyde Park, police kept the two sets of protesters apart, when the counter-protest group did a brief walk-through, chanting “democracy for Iran”, and “the terrorist regime must go”.
Then they walked to Town Hall Square, displaying the flags of Israel and pre-1979 Iran, and danced to Persian music.
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