The Wall Street Journal reported that thousands of Iranian dissidents are planning to counter Rouhani’s charm offensive by attending a rally in Paris on Thursday Jan. 28th said Shahin Gobadi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, to protest Tehran’s human-rights violations as well as its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom France has accused of massacring his own people.
“We need to show to the world Rouhani is anything but a moderate,” Mr. Gobadi said.