The head of state received a delegation of opponents of the regime on Friday, including Irano-American Masih Alinejad, while the protest movement continues in Iran.
by Ghazal Golshiri
The Iranian-American dissident Masih Alinejad, at the origin of several campaigns against the compulsory port of the veil in the Islamic Republic of Iran, met Emmanuel Macron on Friday November 11 in the evening. This interview, the first between an Iranian opposition figure and the leader of great power, comes when Iran has been crossed by an unprecedented uprising since mid-September, repressed in the blood. According to the organization Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana), at least 328 civilians were killed, including 50 children.
Friday evening, the photo of Masih Alinejad, 46 years old and living in the United States, shaking hands with the French president was immediately published in the Persian-speaking media hosted abroad. Three other Iranian women participated in this meeting: Ladane Boroumand, the co-founder of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, a non-governmental organization that has been working for the promotion of human rights in Iran since 2002; Shima Babaie, a former political prisoner arrested for participating in the wave of protests at the end of 2017-start 2018, and today exiled in Belgium; And Roya Majidi, whose mother, Minou, was killed by the regime in a demonstration at the start of the current uprising. The photo of this 25 -year -old Iranian, with a determined look, with a shaved head, hugging her hand cut next to her mother’s grave in Sanadaj (Kurdish city in Iran), has become one of the strong images of the dispute In Iran.
If, for the moment, nothing has filtered on the content of the exchanges between the French president and these three Iranian dissidents, the simple fact that he met them sends a strong message of support to those who are ‘Oppose the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to Masih Alinejad. Le Monde met her in her hotel in Paris the day before his interview with the Head of State. She then explained her approach to us: “The Iranians are on the street. I do not ask anyone to intervene for the reversal of the regime. But recognize the voice of the Iranian people. We do not ask that you save the Iranians, but stop Save those who kill them. Managers like the American president, Joe Biden, will eventually save the Islamic Republic by continuing nuclear negotiations. “
prevent executions
For more than a year, Tehran and the signatories of the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement (the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany) have taken up the talks so that United States return to this pact, unilaterally denounced by former American president Donald Trump in 2018. An American outing which allowed Tehran to free himself from the rules of the agreement, by taking up a large number of his nuclear activities, suspended so far. The countries favorable to the agreement therefore want to give diplomacy a chance, so that Tehran is once again complying with the rules of the pact. But Iranian opponents fear that the resumption of the agreement leads to the lifting of international sanctions against Tehran and therefore allows the regime to take advantage of the dozens of billions of Iranian funds frozen abroad.
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