A crowd of Iranian-Americans rallied in front of the White House on Sunday (December 31) to voice their support for ongoing anti-government protests in Iran and to call for the overthrow of the leadership of the Islamic Republic.
Some 100 protesters appeared to be almost entirely members of the exiled Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), whose largest component, the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e Khalq Organisation (MEK), was listed as a terrorist organisation by the U.S. State Department until 2012.
Critics of the group have in the past described it as a cult.
Many of the protesters held large Iranian flags whose design dated from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, chanting slogans in Farsi and English that called for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Anti-government protesters demonstrated in Iran on Sunday (December 31) in defiance of a warning by authorities of a tough crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009.
The NCRI said it was encouraged by President Donald Trump and his administration's public support of the protesters in Iran, saying the previous Obama administration in 2009 did not champion widespread protests at the time following Iran's disputed presidential election.
A crowd of Iranian-Americans rallied in front of the White House on Sunday (December 31) to voice their support for ongoing anti-government protests in Iran and to call for the overthrow of the leadership of the Islamic Republic.Some 100 protesters appeared to be almost entirely members of the exiled Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), whose largest component, the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e Khalq Organisation (MEK), was listed as a terrorist organisation by the U.S. State Department until 2012.Critics of the group have in the past described it as a cult.Many of the protesters held large Iranian flags whose design dated from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, chanting slogans in Farsi and English that called for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.Anti-government protesters demonstrated in Iran on Sunday (December 31) in defiance of a warning by authorities of a tough crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009.The NCRI said it was encouraged by President Donald Trump and his administration's public support of the protesters in Iran, saying the previous Obama administration in 2009 did not champion widespread protests at the time following Iran's disputed presidential election.
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