Great Neck Rally for Iran Freedom Draws Hundreds

By Leader Staff

A Rally called this past Sunday at the Village Green Park in Great Neck drew over 300 people cheering and supporting the American foreign policy to topple the Ayatollahs and restore freedom to Iran.

"After 47 years of tyranny and oppression from the hated regime of the Ayatollahs, we all hope that President Trump's intervention in Iran will destroy that bloody dictatorship and bring freedom to Iran," stated David Adhami, a former Town of North Hempstead Councilman.

 The Ayatollahs - political leaders of a Shiite Muslim religious order - seized power in 1979, after the ouster of the royal government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.  The Shah had been a close ally of America, but the Ayatollahs reversed policy, and denounced Americans as "the Great Satan" and "Death to America."

Under the Ayatollahs, Iran launched terrorist attacks against America, kidnapped and killed Americans, and supported terrorist groups around the world, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

But after 47 years of religious dictatorship, Iranians have come to hate trheir oppressive government, and have launched mass protests calling for the Ayatollah government to end, and for free elections.

The Ayatollahs response has been to arrest and kill - murder - over 40,000 peaceful protestors - declaring that peaceful protestors are "the enemies of God..."

Many people at the Great Neck Rally were calling for Reza Pahlavi, the now 65-year-old son of the late Shah, to return and establish a constitutional monarchy democracy in Iran - similar to Spain and England which have flourishing democracies with a constitutional monarchy. 

Reza Pahlavi lived in Morocco and Virginia, before marrying and settling in Maryland. He studied at the University of Southern California.  He has three adult daughters, all born in the United States.

Pahlavi was a big supporter of the anti-Ayatollah mass rallies in Iran this year and last year.