Middle East War: ‘US-Israel are like chemotherapy against regime’ say Iranian protestors in Northern Ireland

An Iranian pro-democracy protest at Belfast City Hall has justified the US-Israeli attacks on their country – saying that agreesive chemotherapy is the only way to kill the cancer of the current theocratic regime.

The protestors held flags and chanted at Belfast City Hall this afternoon, as they have done repeatedly since January.

placeholder image — Iranian opponents of the Islamic regime in Tehran pictured outside the city hall on Sunday on Sunday 8 March 2026. They are holding an image of the son of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, whom they wish to lead a new government. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

A month ago the Guardian cited estimated that the current regime has killed 30,000 people in anti-democracy crackdowns so far.

Protest organiser Edeh Zamani, who lives in Belfast, said yesterday that she is aware of huge opposition to the US-Israeli intervention.

"We were saying that [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khamenei is dead and that people keep saying that Israel and the United States are have done the wrong thing – that we are evil to to want Israel and United States to get involved. “But what I said was Khamenei was like stage four cancer; It had traveled through everything in our lives in Iran and we really needed an aggressive chemotherapy from outside to come and to come and do something to get rid of him.

"Yes, the immune system goes down. You lose your hair. Yes. But we have hope that we have one chance of survival and it is from the US and Israel.”

She said some Northern Ireland people also showed up to support them as they do every week.

"A couple of ladies came and spoke to me and asked me how we think and how things are. They accepted the fact that Trump has done a good thing and Israel is doing a good thing.”