Iranian engineer in Ireland: 'We have buried our bravest, but Iran still lives'
The Iranian people have wanted to go to the streets and overthrow the regime, but if they did, they would be killed, Dr Nasim Soleimanian, an engineer who now lives in Ireland, said.
Mourning families began to dance at their loved ones’ graves in celebration after US/Israeli strikes targeted murderous leaders of the Islamic Republic in Iran, an Iranian in Ireland said.
Thousands of Iranians were killed in Iran’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests in January, limbs brutally amputated, people shot at point blank range and stabbed on the streets, Dr Nasim Soleimanian, an engineer who now lives in Ireland, said.
Family of those dead have begun to go to their murdered loved ones’ graves to play happy music and dance “to show [the regime] that we haven't lost, you haven't crushed us,” she said.
“We have buried our bravest, our youngest, our most beautiful,” Nasim said. “But we will not cry, we will not give up. Iran lives.
“They were crying from happiness when they heard [Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei is dead,” Nasim said.
As a self-described socialist, Nasim now feels deeply conflicted about US president Donald Trump.
“I shudder to think about it. He is a neo-fascist. I’m hugely anti-Trump.”
But anything that can topple the Iranian Islamic Republic regime is something to be deeply grateful for and celebrate, she said.
Nasim, an engineer, lived and worked in Cork for years but now lives in Galway with her Irish boyfriend. Her family and friends are still in Iran, but she said that they are not worried.
“So far, the bombing has been done very surgically, targeting Islamic Republic individuals.
“The air strikes have been very strategic, taking out the top and bottom of the [power] pyramid."
She said the leadership of the Iranian Islamic Republic had been targeted, as had police involved in brutality during the protests.
She asked people not to use Iranians' "name or their pain” to criticise the US/Israeli strikes on Iran that began on Saturday.
“Where were these people during the [January] protests?
Nasim spoke to her family on Saturday morning.
“I wanted to call before they cut the phone line again,” she said.
“They were very excited. They’re very grateful.” The Iranian people have wanted to go to the streets and overthrow the regime, but if they did, they would be killed, she said.
Although she said the US and Israel warn before airstrikes so civilians can leave, "with the internet, it’s hard to get messages through."
The diaspora has been helping people in Iran access the internet through a specific VPN and conduit apps.
And while the regime can cut local internet, there is some access to Starlink satellite internet and other illegal satellite systems.
Underground groups of tech-savvy youths exist in most communities. They can access some internet, even during blackouts.
They then share information, like where to go to stay safe, Nasim said.
Nasim said she is pro-peace. “But peace for whom? Would peace for Hitler have been good? Peace for apartheid?
“All wars are not equal.
“And what is your solution? From the safety of Ireland, you can’t say ‘no war with Iran’ when the Iranian people say that the Islamic Republic is not Iran. Iran is us. The people."
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