Washington, DC; May 5, 2018 – Over 1,000 delegates representing Iranian-American communities in 40 states attended the 2018 Iran Freedom Convention for Democracy and Human Rights on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC.
The participants voiced support for the Iranian people who rose up in protest beginning on December 2017. By January 2018 the uprising had spread to 142 cities across Iran. These protests are continuing today, with tens of thousands of people venting their anger at the regime in chants of “death to the dictator.” Steel workers in oil rich city of Ahvaz, workers at the Haft-Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory in Shush (southwest Iran), farmers in Isfahan, defrauded investors in Tehran, people in the city of Rasht (in the country’s bread basket) and Mashhad (northeast Iran), as well as ordinary Iranians in other cities nationwide are voicing their grievances against the clerical regime.
