Nearly 350 people are mobilizing this Saturday to support the Iranian cause
The slogan “Woman Life Freedom” resounded in the early afternoon in front of the War Memorial, next to the Allées François Verdier, in Toulouse. Close to 350 people responded to the call of associations to support Iran.
Mobilize for loved ones
Among the crowd of demonstrators, carolina, a sign in hand, has been at all the demonstrations for two months. She lives in Bordeaux, she came by bus. Son companion is Iranian, some of her friends are too, she feels particularly concerned: “I have the best role, I am French, I was born in a democracy. I think we are incredibly lucky”
Massoud also measures how lucky he is to have left Iran five years ago to study human sciences in France. Today he is a web developer in Toulouse but he still lived nearly 30 years under the Iranian Islamic Republic. When the first demonstrations appeared last September in Iran, he couldn’t believe it. “It’s a dream that is coming true. I am mobilizing today for my relatives and friends in Iran who are also mobilizing and are in danger. It’s the least I can do to tell them : ‘I am with you’, even if I am geographically far away.”
Standing on one of the pillars of the War Memorial, Ingamé, 26, shouts. She comes from Montpellier, she has been exiled in France for six years now. All her family and friends remained in Iran, protesting every weekend and the only way she found also to support them: “I’ve lost two friends in Iran since the protests started. Maybe that’s also why my voice is all the louder. I can’t stop, I can’t say anything. It is my duty to carry the voice of the people who are victims.“