Atlanta City Councilman says Trump's actions hinder reform in Iran

Atlanta City Councilman Amir Farokhi, an Iranian-American, is speaking out against the recent actions that President Donald Trump has taken against Iran.

“There are roughly one million Iranian-Americans living in the United States, including the tens of thousands who live in metro Atlanta,” Farokhi said in a statement. “We span the professional and political spectrum, from teachers to doctors, apathy to activism. Like all Americans, we want to see a reformed, more open Iran that doesn’t engage in destabilizing violence.”

But Farokhi said that the assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian cultural sites run contrary to that objective.

“Threats by the President to attack cultural sites that are important to our common human history is beneath our national character,” Farokhi said. “It would also be a war crime.”

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