There are at least two million Iranians who have fled the country, according to a United Nations estimate. Across Europe, they are the ones who today celebrate the end of the regime that they classify as authoritarian, repressive and fundamentalist.
If the United Nations speaks of around two million displaced Iranians, Iran revises the number upwards, guaranteeing that there will be almost four million who are part of the diaspora.
In Portugal, there are around 1,400 Iranians registered as residents. Close to a hundred were celebrating in front of the Tehran embassy in Lisbon, after the death of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in an attack by the United States and Israel. They thanked especially the Azores, and asked for freedom for Iran.
The operation by US and Israeli forces raised, however, several doubts, including the intervention of an international coalition against a third country that did not provoke attacks and even the use of the Bajes, in the Azores.
Those who have lived under repression, however, prefer to look to the future and not the past. “It was not an attack, but military aid. It is the salvation of the people of Iran. I believe that the people are courageous and will take control of the country,” said one of the protesters.
In Paris, hundreds of Iranians, who proudly wore the country’s colors, made a slow and noisy running. “Help is on the way”, read the banner in front of the demonstration.
In Greece, Iranians are thanking Israel, while in the United Kingdom the coronation of the exiled son of the last shaman is already being prepared.
