Persians declare their allegiance lies with Western Nations and Western Values, not Islam
“As Persians, we're not here to take your benefits and your houses and your jobs and your women and still hate your flag and hate your country. We love the English flag. We love English people. We love your religion. I'm a Christian myself. Hallelujah.
We came here because we run from religious radicals who have held Iran hostage from more than half a century. But lemme tell you again, we are not them. We are not the IRGC. We are not Muslims. We are Persians. We are Persians.
We love your flag. We love your religion. Do not let no one take that away from you because they took that away from us. They are not us. As I told to you, we are Persians. We are son of Cyrus. The great our ancestors said no to slavery and freed many slaves because that's who we are”
It’s always been a bipartisan goal to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes and expanding its arsenal of ballistic missiles. This time shouldn’t be any different.
MAYOR MAMDANI: “The Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year. It is a brutal government.”