16/08/2026
The 34th Annual Festival of Globe (FOG) India Day Parade in Fremont, California, marked India’s 80th Independence Day — and this year, our contingent carried a message that felt especially powerful.
Marching alongside the Kashmiri Hindu and Jewish communities, under one banner that read “Stronger Together,” were moderate, freedom-loving Iranians — people who love their country, cherish their heritage, and believe Iran can once again belong to its people.
Two details in these pictures are worth pausing on.
The flag. Look closely: one piece of cloth, three nations. The Stars and Stripes. The blue-and-white Magen David. And Iran’s green, white and red, bearing the golden Shir-o-Khorshid — the Lion and Sun, Iran’s historic emblem before 1979 and, today, a powerful symbol for many in the Iranian diaspora who refuse to let go of the Iran they remember.
America that gave us refuge. Israel that refuses to be erased. Iran that remembers who it was.
And then, the cap: MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN.
Worn by Iranians who love their country and want it back — not the Iran of the Islamic Republic’s theocracy, but an Iran rooted in its ancient civilization, the Iran of Cyrus, Persepolis, pluralism and national pride.
That sentiment needs no translation for Kashmiri Hindus.
We know what it means to carry a homeland in your heart while someone else holds the keys to your home. We know what it means to preserve memory, identity and hope across generations — and to believe that one day, the right to return, reclaim and rebuild can become a reality.
Different histories. Different flags. Different homelands.
But the same longing for freedom, dignity, identity and the right to live without fear.
Different flags. Same fight. Stronger together. 🇮🇳🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷