Iranian diaspora wants the Mullahs replaced, but Canadian media ignores Islamist terror

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As the popular uprising against Tehran’s Islamic regime enters its third week, Iranian-Canadians are doing all they can to show solidarity and call for revolution. Their message is clear and united: the Mullahs governing Iran are illegitimate and must be replaced with a transitional government led by exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi.

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Many Iranians fled to Canada following the country’s 1979 revolution, wherein a coalition of Islamists and Marxists overthrew the despotic Shah of Iran. After assuming power, these Islamists imprisoned and executed their leftist allies, establishing a theocratic autocracy which, being worse than its predecessor, would oversee decades of tyranny and economic decline.

The Iranian people have since regularly called for freedom, only to be repeatedly subdued with mass arrests, beatings, sexual violence, torture and gunfire.

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During the anti-government protests of 2019, for example, the Mullahs shut down the country’s internet for a week and, in this window of darkness, massacred an estimated 1,500 demonstrators with the help of snipers and machine guns. The protest movement of late 2022 — sparked by the morality police’s murder of a young woman who had “improperly” worn a hijab  — was

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