Escape from Iran

  • Alexander Adams

In July 2021 I interviewed Alam Hamidi, an Iranian refugee travelling through Greece to Europe. Beaten and abused by his government, he left his family behind in the hopes of a better future for them all.

Escape from Iran by Alexander Adams
“I want to go to Toulouse, to Paris, and into Germany. Germany is better than Greece, but England is the best. I would like to go to England, but it is too hard for refugees to enter. Greece is too poor. Not a good place to bring my family.” He pauses as he tries to find the right words for the next sentence. “I wish I could have gone to France tonight. For two or three years I have tried to go to France, Italy, anywhere.”
He shows me pictures of Arabs living in beside what I assume to be oil fields... “Iranian Arabs do not have freedom of expression, or a state – and companies do not hire them. The government is trying to disperse the Arabs in Ahwaz to other cities.”
Alexander Adams
Travel Writer and Photographer.