Omid Ebrahimi, a 28-year-old doctor born in Iran who moved to Britain as a child, said exiles like him are \u201cvery hopeful\u201d watching the protests spread across his birthplace.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce again, the Iranian people have shown that this is a dictatorial regime that they do not want,\u201d he told AFP. \u201cEveryone is using this as an opportunity to voice their dissent towards this regime\u2026 they know the price for freedom but many of them, they don\u2019t have a choice. They don\u2019t see any other alternative to rise up and get rid of this regime, whatever the cost may be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fara Hosseimi, 38, a London-born lawyer to Iranian parents who left the country after the late 1970s revolution, said she had attended \u201cto show my solidarity with the people of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really reached a turning point in the sense that it\u2019s not just the women and the youth anymore that are rising up against the Iranian regime,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s people from all walks of life, including the merchants, who are historically quite conservative and quite pro-regime, really.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think it\u2019s reached a point of no return.\u201d<\/p>\n
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