‘Iranians are fed up of dictatorship’: the exiled female activists daring to dream of a new era

Hopes are high among British Iranians that Ayatollah Khameni’s theocracy is finally about to be toppled

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n Europe, women are running countries. Women in Iran deserve that. They have always been a leading part of the resistance,” Diana Nammi, 62, a longtime campaigner against autocracy in Iran, says in London.

In the UK, as in Iran, female activists, alongside youth campaigners, are at the forefront of the fight to shape a new direction for the country after decades of repressive rule.

Now, as mass protests engulf Iran, hopes are high among British Iranians that Ayatollah Ali Khameni’s theocracy is finally about to be toppled.