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 - including North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena - cheering and supporting the American foreign policy to topple the Ayatollahs and restore freedom to Iran.

“So many of our residents here in North Hempstead remember a homeland that was once filled with beauty, freedom, and promise – before it fell under the shadow of tyranny in Iran," stated Supervisor DeSena. "I’ve listened to their stories of heartache and I stand with them in their calls for change so that Iran will again know liberty.”

"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," added David Adhami, a former North Hempstead Councilman, whose own family fled from Iran after the Ayatollahs took power.

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 their 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, has three adult daughters, all born in the United States, and is a supporter of the protests to overthrow the Ayatollahs.