Mary Reinholz
Mary ReinholzLast night Havaar, a self-described “Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions and State Repression,” took the Illuminator out for a spin, projecting messages like “Peace = Freedom from state repression, foreign and domestic” on the side of a building at East 14th Street and Broadway. The group, which had earlier protested the Iranian government’s policies outside of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hotel during his visit to the U.N. General Assembly, describes itself as a grassroots organization of Iranians, Iranian-Americans and allies (including Occupy Wall Street) opposing military action and U.S.-led sanctions against Iran.
