This Saturday, around a hundred Iranians protested in front of the Assembly of the Republic. They ask the Portuguese State to cut diplomatic relations with the current regime in Iran.
Maryam has lived in Portugal for three years. He wants to return to Iran, but dreams of returning to a free country. He lives far from his mother and brother and, at the moment, he doesn’t know where or how his family is.
“I can’t talk to my family because they don’t have internet, they don’t have electricity, nothing. I haven’t heard from my family for a week,” he says.
For more than a week now, the Iranian regime blocked internet access and imposed restrictions on telecommunications.
Protesters ask the Portuguese State to cut diplomatic relations with Iran. They want return of Shah Reza Pahlavi’s monarchyson of the monarch overthrown in 1979 and who currently lives in exile.
Four days ago, the Portuguese Government condemned the violent repression of demonstrations in Iran. In a post on social media, it also expressed its willingness to reinforce sanctions against the Iranian regime.
