Iranian Americans protested against the regime in Tehran as the Iranian soccer team arrived in Los Angeles for their first World Cup match against New Zealand on June 15.
As the team arrived at the Los Angeles Galaxy’s training ground in Carson, a small group of Iranian Americans shouted, “Down with terrorists!”
The Iranian national team, which traveled to Los Angeles for a#2026WorldCupmatch, was protested by a group of Iranians in the diaspora carrying US and Israeli flags.The same group had celebrated while the US and Israel were carrying out military attacks on Iran, and also…pic.twitter.com/XSiciM9tiN
As Chris Summers reports via The Epoch Times,the protesters were holding the pre-1979 Iranian flag—emblazoned with a lion and a sun—which is widely used by the Iranian opposition, and some of them also held the flags of the United States and Israel.
FIFA has banned the lion-and-sun standard under a rule that forbids the flying of political flags or banners inside stadiums during the World Cup.
The match against New Zealand takes place as Iran and the United States seek to finalize adealto end the conflict that began on Feb. 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury.
Mojgan Ramezani, 56, an Iranian American at a rally outside the stadium in Inglewood, California, which will host the match, said,“They’re holding hostage their own people.”
Pictures of athletes who allegedly died in custody after being arrested by the Iranian regime lined a nearby street corner during a rally organized by the local Iranian American community.
One of the protesters, 70-year-old Hassan Haddadi, said he was frustrated that there had been no regime change in Iran.
“We’re hoping to bring awareness to the Western world, to somehow do something beyond just condemning, to bring an end to this regime,” Haddadi said.
Source: ZeroHedge News
