Iranians in Ireland: ‘Iran has been there for 1,000 years. This will pass’

Cork-based voices share harrowing accounts of war, repression, displacement and the global consequences of escalating conflict in Iran

University of Galway academic Mahya Ostovar does not believe the war will push people who oppose the current Iranian regime towards supporting it: 'It is still a terrorist regime. It has killed tens of thousands of its own people.' Picture: Ray Ryan

"They bombed," Peyman Nasser’s mother-in-law screamed as a loud explosion vibrated down the phone line before it went dead.

Many people died in that attack on Iran’s capital Tehran, said Mr Nasser, an Iranian-born businessman who has lived in Cork for many years.