Los Tehrangeles
Horns cut through the early morning sunlight as Iranian Americans exercise the freedoms of speech and assembly which are being brutally suppressed in their homeland. “if this was your family, you’d be here, too!” a young woman calls to cars passing by. Maybe a hundred people, wrapped in American and Iranian flags, fingers held aloft in a peace gesture and accented with green, stand out here for the first of two rallies today, drawing the passive endorsement of passersby. They howl with the anguish of people watching from a distance, doing what they can to topple a dictatorship with words. Though President Obama has kept the US officially mum, the citizens are making their support for freedom, for human rights, for democracy heard and felt around the world!
