Thousands protest for freedom in DTLA as Iran marks anniversary of Islamic Revolution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : An estimated 3,000 people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to support the people of Iran.
54% : Processions in Tehran on Saturday started out from several points and converged at Azadi Square.
46% : LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Iran on Saturday celebrated the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests.
45% : Iran says it gave the drones to Russia before the war.
43% : In a speech at Azadi Square in the capital Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi referred to the protests as a project by Iran's enemies aimed at stopping the nation from continuing its achievements.
41% : The anniversary comes after two years in which celebrations were largely limited to vehicles due to the pandemic that killed more than 140,000 people, in Iran according to official numbers - the highest national death toll in the Middle East.
36% : The shah, terminally and secretly ill with cancer, fled Iran in January 1979.
34% : Anger also has spread over the collapse of the Iranian rial against the U.S. dollar and Tehran's arming Russia with bomb-carrying drones in its war on Ukraine, which has also angered the West.
34% : The Islamic Revolution began with widespread unrest in Iran over the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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