'Anti-war' groups drown out voices of Iranians opposed to Islamic Republic regime 

Mahya Ostovar says protests in Ireland echo a global phenomenon — Iranians protesting against the repressive regime are being swamped by the dominant political narrative

A woman wearing a mask with the pre-1979 Iranian lion and sun flag at a protest in Frankfurt against the current regime in January. Picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP

A few days after the war began in Iran, our small community of Iranians in Galway came across a poster for a local anti-war protest.

It advertised, among other things, “a guest speaker from the Iranian embassy” and framed the event as solidarity with “Iranian people”.