With dogs, dance and uncovered hair, Iranians defy 'unholy alliance' of socialists, radicals: ‘Hypocrites!’

Washington, D.C. – "You’re hypocrites!"

The outcry chopped crossed H Street NW past week arsenic astir 500 Iranian Americans supporting authorities alteration successful Iran marched toward a smaller radical of pro-China socialists gathered 2 blocks distant crossed from the White House, backing the extremist clerics starring Iran.

"We are present for state of Iran," Jay Gorbani, an Iranian American, explained, arsenic helium held his Labradoodle puppy, Bella, portion different members of a fledgling radical – National Solidarity Group for Iran – marched by. 

"We are against the spiritual mafia authorities of Iran."

The far-left activists they confronted had assembled nether agleam greenish and yellowish signs pulled retired again this weekend, speechmaking "STOP WAR IN IRAN," But the organizers aren’t simply "peace" activists, a Fox News Digital investigation of scores of pages of communications by protestation organizers reveals. 

Fox News Digital has identified astatine slightest 75 organizations that person protested successful enactment of the authorities successful Iran since the warfare began, including 50 organizations that are far-left, Marxist, socialist oregon communist, 22 that are Muslim organizations that enactment Islamism, oregon governmental theocracy, and the remaining 3 that are socialist-Islamist adjacent.

They parrot the pro-regime messages that the Chinese Communist Party has expressed successful caller days, arsenic China sends subject instrumentality to Iran, according to nationalist information experts.

Last weekend, they coordinated demonstrations successful 63 cities crossed 29 states and Washington, D.C., utilizing identical signs, chants and protestation infrastructure, disposable present successful a digital toolkit, and they are replicating the protests this play and successful the coming days. 

The main organizers are funded by an American-born tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, based successful Shanghai, and lawmakers successful the House Ways and Means Committee and House Oversight Committee person accused the web of promoting the interests of the People’s Republic of China. Singham didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.

The Singham-funded web includes the People’s Forum Inc., the ANSWER Coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink Women for Peace and the Palestinian Youth Movement, which has helped signifier these protests. The Democratic Socialists of America, which helped elite Zohran Mamdani arsenic politician of New York, besides co-sponsored the protests. The organizations didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Iranian Americans locomotion with their dogs to defy strict edits of the Islamic Republic of Iran that prohibition dogs arsenic pets, arsenic portion of a protestation connected March 7, 2026, successful Washington, D.C., supporting U.S. and Israeli subject strikes successful Iran. (Fox News Digital)

Global Defiance

The confrontation successful the nation’s superior reflects a broader conflict unfolding not lone successful Iran but besides successful the West.

From Phoenix to Dallas, Indianapolis, Toronto and Manchester successful the U.K., members of the diaspora are progressively challenging far-left activists they impeach of amplifying propaganda that favors the clerical rulers Islamic Republic.

This weekend, Gorbani and different Iranian Americans took to the streets again. They reason their advocacy for a secular ideology – and rejection of Islamism, oregon theocracy – offers the strongest effect to rising acts of extremism by Muslim ideologues. In caller days, incidents of unit successful Austin, Tex., New York and Norfolk, Va., person been punctuated by shouts of Allahu Akbar, oregon "God is great.

In a protestation against the authorities successful Iran connected Saturday, March 7, 2026, successful Washington, D.C., Iranian American women march without covering their hairsbreadth with the benignant of headscarves that the Islamic Republic of Iran forces women to wear. (Fox News Digital)

‘Unholy Alliance’

These tensions bespeak a governmental dynamic with heavy humanities roots.

In 1965, Time magazine published an article, headlined "Unholy Alliance," bluntly describing "the Communists and fanatical Moslems" moving unneurotic to reason ​​Iranian person Shah Reza Pahlavi’s efforts to "modernize and Westernize Iran" arsenic a secular democracy.

Time quoted Pahlavi informing of "an unholy confederation betwixt 2 extremist wings," communist revolutionaries that helium called "unpatriotic, destructive Reds," and extremist Muslims, galore wearing achromatic robes, turbans and headscarves.

"This is the precise familiar, what we call, unholy confederation betwixt the achromatic and the red, that is the communists and the precise reactionary radical oregon strata. We ever spot it due to the fact that they are some against the advancement and happiness of the country," Pahlavi said years later.

It's an confederation present called the "red-green alliance," with greenish symbolizing the colour of Islam.

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‘Freedom for Iran’ v. the Regime

This past weekend, an Iranian American pistillate with different nascent group, DCProtests4Iran, faced disconnected against women successful achromatic robes from the Manassas Mosque successful bluish Virginia, wherever mosque leaders enactment the Iranian theocracy. Her hairsbreadth escaped successful the wind, she flashed a "V" for triumph and shouted, "Down with the Islamic regime!"

Staring down H Street NW astatine the socialists, Reza Rezavi, an technologist from Rockville, Md., and a unpaid with DCProtests4Iran, said his radical supports Pahlavi’s son, Reza Pahlavi, arsenic the person of a caller transitional authorities that would recognize a "democratic Iran."

"Freedom for Iran!" screamed different Iranian American woman, holding her Lhasaapso dog, Cocoa, rescued successful 2019 from Tehran, wherever the authorities has ruled canine walking amerciable successful galore cities.

Across protests from London to Washington, D.C., Iranian diaspora activists accidental they are confronting far-left groups they impeach of stealing ideology from them, dating backmost to 1979, erstwhile they defended extremist clerics who came to powerfulness successful 1979, overthrowing Pahlavi. Singham didn’t respond to requests for comment.

"It’s taste warfare," said Paul Mauro, an attorney, erstwhile New York Police Department counterterrorism inspector and a existent Fox News contributor.

"Marxism is astir apt the astir malevolent azygous thought ever devised," Mauro said, "and our civilization has present go infected with a tolerance for Marxism that is being translated into a precise unsafe governmental vigor that is moving with Islamists to undermine America arsenic we cognize it."

David Chung, organizing manager astatine the People's Forum Inc., sets up successful Union Square to protestation the warfare with Iran successful New York, N.Y., connected Saturday, March 7, 2026. He carries signs with the website domain for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

‘Would You Like a Sign?’

LIke clockwork, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and different socialist organizations had arrived astatine 2:28 p.m. past play to the country of 16th and H Street NW. One pistillate sipped an iced coffee, portion different pulled a reddish wagon piled with megaphones. A 3rd pushed a market cart filled with a marching drum and fluorescent yellowish signs speechmaking "STOP THE WAR ON IRAN!" 

A young pistillate dragged a twelve oregon truthful signs asking, "Would you similar a sign? Sign? Anyone similar a sign?"

Tourists looked away, arsenic far-left activists, including CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and DC coordinator Olivia DiNucci arrived with a caller protestation banner. Ignoring the approaching assemblage of Iranian Americans, Benjamin posed for a photograph with Korean Americans who enactment China, Iran and North Korea’s communism. 

Soon, the radical broke into acquainted anti-American chants heard astatine protests for years, but this clip they were muffled by the chants of the Iranian protesters, chanting, "USA! USA!"

Asked astir Singham’s backing of the protest's socialist sponsors, Benjamin said, "I’d alternatively not speech astir it."

Dancing successful the Streets successful Defiance

Minutes later, the Iranian American groups rounded the country from L Street NW and stopped astir 200 yards from the far-left activists connected 16th Street NW. They blasted Iranian euphony and danced.

In defiance of strict interpretations of Islam, families walked favored dogs adjacent Bella and Cocoa, arsenic women shouted with their hairsbreadth successful the wind, and men and women freely danced beside each different to Iranian popular music, acts mostly banned successful Iran. The country stood successful defiance of the strict spiritual rules imposed by Iran’s clerics, who person barred favored dogs, forced women to screen their hairsbreadth and suppressed music, dancing and dissent.

An Iranian American pistillate smiled and dilatory raised her mediate digit astatine the socialist activists, their chants of "Down, down with the USA," drowned retired by euphony blaring successful Farsi.

During a protestation connected Saturday, March 7, 2026, successful Washington, D.C., members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation gave children chants to recite, supporting the authorities successful Iran, and filmed the children for videos they aboriginal published connected societal media. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)

Across the constabulary line, tract marshals from the Party for Socialism and Liberation corralled elementary-aged girls swaddled successful achromatic headscarves to the microphone, filming them adjacent up arsenic the children stumbled implicit their words, speechmaking chants from a telephone arsenic activists egged them on.

When a miss got successful the shot, the tract marshal filming the canned chanting tried to shoo her away. 

"Those radical are supporting terrorists," said 1 Iranian American with the reform-era Iranian emblem draped implicit his shoulder, similar a cape, featuring a lion emblem. "We are against them."

"We bash not enactment the regime," said Siamak Aran, an organizer with the National Solidarity Group for Iran, arsenic Iranian Americans marched down him, chanting, "USA! USA!"

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Fox News Digital's Azziana Solomon contributed to this report.