150,000 people took to the streets of Toronto on Sunday to peacefully call out the oppressive regime in Tehran

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TORONTO — An estimated 150,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Sunday to call for American military strikes against Iran’s Islamic regime.

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At Sankofa Square, the crowd was bigger than any demonstration, of any type, I have ever witnessed in the city. There was a boundless forest of Iranian nationalist flags bearing the old “lion and sun” emblem of the pre-revolutionary era, and hundreds of portraits of Iran’s exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi.

“King Reza Pahlavi! King Reza Pahlavi!” roared the crowd intermittently. Echoing previous diaspora rallies, and the apparent desires of many protesters living in Iran, they demanded that the Islamic regime be toppled so that the prince could lead a transitional government and shepherd the country towards democracy.

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Many attendees carried photos of pro-democracy protesters who had been slaughtered during the regime’s brutal crackdown last month; among the faces of the........

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