CNN iReport

Paris....Place des Invalides...6 p.m.

Support for today's manifestation in Iran...

about 200 people gathered late this afternoon in

solidarity with those Iranian people who are protesting the present Iranian government...

Today, November 4, coincides with the 30 year-old American hostage taking when 66 Americans were taken from the American embassy in Teheran.  Of the 66 hostages 13 women and black people were released after a few weeks but 52 were kept kept for 444 days...The event was planned by university students and militants and wasn't intended to be a long term measure but soon gained the support of Ayatollah Khomeni and escalated into major tensions between the clerics who were then in power and the American government ..In fact probably all the American people were outraged and the event figured foremost on every news programand throughout all media for the duration of what was soon to be referred to as "the hostage crisis.".

Today, in what the government had planned as a celebration of the end of the Shah's rule on November 4, 1978 and the beginning of the rule by mullahs on November 4, 1979 was usurped by a large part of the population in most major Iranian cities and was turned into a protest against the existing government.  It is the intention of many of those protesting against the government to remain in the streets for three days.

The woman's face you see in photo #2,5,6 and video is that of Meha Agha Soltan.  She was the first person killed by the Khomeni regime on November 4, 1979 and has since become the symbol of the new Iranian revolution.

a bas le dictateur...get rid of the dictator

An interesting video presentation by the spokesperson for National Council Of Iranian Resistance explainin the background and context for today's manifestation can be viewed at:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-349496