(23 Sep 2025)
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New York, New York – 23 September 2025
1. Man stands inside group of protesters
2. Protesters hold Iranian flags and posters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Behr Borhani, media relations advisor for Organization of Iranian American Communities:
"We are here today protesting against the presence of the Iranian delegation at the United Nations."
4. Protesters stand behind of banner and chant
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Soona Samsami, United States representative for National Council of Resistance of Iran:
"The message, the message is very simple and clear: overthrow the regime."
6. Crowd cheers and claps
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Soona Samsami, United States representative for National Council of Resistance of Iran:
"Here is our message today: the seat of Iranian people at the United Nations must not be given to the regime of execution, torture and massacre."
8. Woman stands in crowd
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mitra Samani, protester:
"Thousands are here to oppose the Iranian regime and letting the international community, especially the U.N., know that the Iranian delegation are just representing the government, not the Iranian people. And they have to go."
10. Protesters chant and wave flags
11. Woman and boy stand in crowd
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Carla Sands, former United States ambassador to Denmark:
"The regime in Tehran is beyond reform. Its record is written in blood."
13. Various protesters stand in sea of flags
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Carla Sands, former United States ambassador to Denmark:
"The solution is not appeasement. The solution is not war. The solution is the Iranian people and their organized resistance."
15. Various protesters stand in sea of flags
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Safavi, foreign affairs committee member for National Council of Resistance of Iran:
"The regime in Tehran is now a problem for the entire world."
17. Woman holds something up in crowd
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Safavi, foreign affairs committee member for National Council of Resistance of Iran:
"The U.N. must hear the voice of the Iranian people and their four-decades long earning for democracy and freedom."
19. Various protesters stand in sea of flags
20. Posters of people killed in Iran
21. Crowd listens to speaker
STORYLINE:
Outside the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday a sea of protesters, chanting and carrying Iranian flags, gathered to oppose the Iranian delegation to the U.N.
Soona Samsami, the United States representative to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, addressed the crowd, calling for regime change.
"Here is our message today: the seat of Iranian people at the United Nations must not be given to the regime of execution, torture and massacre," Samsami said.
According to a press release from the Organization of Iranian American Communities, Iranians from more than 40 states flocked to New York City for the protest.
Mitra Samani came from California, where she is a board member for the California Society for Democracy in Iran. She also said she was once a political prisoner inside Iran.
"Thousands are here to oppose the Iranian regime and letting the international community, especially the U.N., know that the Iranian delegation are just representing the government, not the Iranian people," Samani said. "They have to go."
AP Video Mary Conlon
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