Escape from Iran
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.
https://www.shamblesramble.com/post/escape-from-iran
“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.”
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