Volume 22, Number 21 | The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan | October 2 - 8, 2009

Downtown Express photos by Milo Hess
Downtown heat on Iran
Protesters around City Hall Park were safe last Thursday as they demonstrated against Iran’s harsh treatment of protesters there. Two days later, President Obama joined with President Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Brown of Great Britain in calling on Iran to cease operations at what they said was a nuclear weapons facility kept hidden from inspectors until recently.