Across the United States, thousands of people gathered peacefully to denounce and protest the US-Israeli military operation in Iran throughout Monday.
Bostonians took to the streets amid low temperatures: One protester, speaking to the crowd, expressed his opposition for “these endless, stupid, immoral, dangerous wars,” according to CNN affiliate WCVB.
In New York City, a crowd of demonstrators gathered in Manhattan for a short rally before peacefully marching through the city streets while chanting “hands off Iran now” while holding banners and posters.
Elsewhere in the city, a smaller group struck a different tone. In Times Square, several dozen Iranian Americans gathered to welcome the killing of Iran’s supreme leader and to call for regime change.
“No one is ever happy their homeland is under attack,” Tina Rahvar, an Iranian American demonstrator, told CNN affiliate WABC. “When an entire country of people is begging to be bombed, you know that there’s something wrong.”
On the West Coast, demonstrators in Los Angeles rallied against the strikes, chanting “No war on Iran” and demanding an end to US military involvement.
Similar protests unfolded in Chicago, Portland, Oregon and Madison, Wisconsin.
The ANSWER Coalition, an organization against war and occupation, announced over the weekend on social media platforms Monday would be a national day of protest to “
Stop the War in Iran.” Its website listed a number of demonstrations scheduled across the country for Monday.
