Several demonstrations and a video campaign with projections on public buildings denounce the violence of the mullahs’ regime in Iran.
A few thousand people took to the streets in Berlin again at the weekend against the regime in Iran. The biggest event took place on Saturday afternoon in Charlottenburg. According to police, around 2,000 people gathered at the corner of Kurfürstendamm and Joachimsthaler Strasse under the motto “Help for Iran”, although participants estimated the number to be much higher. The call was made by the so-called monarchists, who wanted the former Shah’s son Reza Pahlavi to play a strong role in Iran.
Videos circulating on social networks show a sea of Iranian flags with the lion’s head, an ancient national symbol that is now widely used as a sign of resistance against the current government. Israel and Germany flags also fly in between. Chants called for the return of Reza Pahlavi to moderate the period until free elections in Iran. The police noted a “positive Europhoric mood,” as a spokeswoman reported to the taz on Sunday.
At the same time, left-wing exile groups demonstrated just a few hundred meters away at Wittenbergplatz. Their call also calls for “solidarity with the struggles of the people in Iran”, but at the same time is also directed “against foreign military intervention”. According to police, 50 people came to this rally.
The mullahs’ regime in Iran has used brutal force to suppress the protests of the last few weeks. Human rights groups assume at least 5,000 deaths, but estimates range up to 30,000 deaths. There are also countless injured and arrested people. The central element of oppression is the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards; After much hesitation, the EU added this to the terror list on Friday. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military intervention and had troops relocated to the region.
In Berlin on Thursday evening, around ten activists managed to project videos of the protests onto several buildings in Mitte. According to their own statements, the activists had received permission from the Volksbühne and other facades in the government district were “played on” on their own initiative. The police stopped the action at the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus next to the Bundestag.
Next Saturday, February 7th, another group is calling for a “large demonstration” in Berlin – the People’s Mujahideen. It is not obvious to outsiders that the organization, which operates throughout Europe with its crude mixture of socialism and Islam, is behind the demonstration call with the title “No Shah, No Mullah”. Behind the specified website apa-ice.org But the Mujahideen are obviously there, assures a taz expert.
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