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As many as 200,000 protestors took to the streets of Munich on Saturday to denounce Iran’s Islamic Republic, police said — in the largest ever protest in Europe by opponents of the regime.
The demonstrators banged drums and chanted for regime change, with some waving the lion and sun flags — the former national flag before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
As world leaders gathered for the second day of the Munich Security Conference, Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for global protests to ramp up the pressure on Tehran. He spoke at the confab and called on President Trump to “help” the Iranian people.
200,000 people took to the streets of Munich Saturday, police said. APHe said the regime’s survival “sends a clear signal to every bully: kill enough people and you stay in power” and warned of more deaths if “democracies stand by and watch.”
“We gather at an hour of profound peril to ask: Will the world stand with the people of Iran?” said Pahlavi, the last son of the Shah of Iran who was deposed during the revolution.
At least 7,005 people have been killed in Iran’s anti-government protests which began in late December, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, although some estimates claim the bloodshed has been far more deadly.
The crown prince, who was expected to speak at the Munich demonstration, also called for rallies in Los Angeles and Toronto on Saturday — the two North American cities with the largest Iranian populations.
Hundreds of thousands march on Munich in calling for regime change in Tehran. AFP via Getty ImagesWith Post Wires
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