Demonstration held in Romania capital in support of protesters in Iran

Описание: (1 Feb 2026)
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Bucharest, Romania - 1 February 2026
1. Wide of demonstration outside Duma
Banner (left) says (Romania) "We ask Romanian authorities to expel from Romania the diplomats of the criminal islamic regime."
Right: Today bullets for Iranians. Tomorrow nuclear bomb for rest of the world."
2. Various of members of the Iranian community protesting
3. Protesters with banner reading (English) "God is with us. Terrorist Diplomat Get Out. Diplomat Terrorist Get Out. The Islamic Regime has killed +40 thousand people of Iran. This is Genocide. Be the Voice of Iran."
4. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Javid Tayebiderazkola, Iranian protester:
“ I came here to be a voice for the people who were told to speak no more. We don't want to roll on the silence and we want to show that these atrocities, even if they want to cover them will be heard and the human empathy will go across the borders and embargo.”
5. Mid of demonstration
8. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Javid Tayebiderazkola, Iranian protester:
“The situation in Iran is not the best… contact with the people in Iran is very difficult. They try to tell us everything is ok, but, the tremble in their voices… when both you and them have 15 seconds to lie to each other that all is fine.. it's different sort of human contact that I don't want to see.. it's something like from the movies but now you live it.”
9. Various of demonstration
10. Close of banner saying (English) "Fight for Iran."
11. Close of girl with banner - pull out to wide of girl and banner. Banner reads (English) "Freedom for Iran."
12. Wide of demonstration
13. Mid of demo
14. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Heidari Abdolreza, protester:
“ Us, the Iranians from the diaspora, like Romanians of the diaspora during the communism fighting for freedom of Romania, it's our duty, our moral obligation, to support the people in Iran in their fight for democracy.”
15. Iranian flag
16. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Heidari Abdolreza, protester:
“It's a strange thing, you know, we want democracy, freedom, we want what somebody in a free country wants, but our wish might seem weird because we'd like to go back to what it was before this regime came to power. It's strange because going back to what it was back then would actually mean being able to move forward.”
17. Wide of demo
18. Close of picture of lion on ground
19. Various of members of Iranian community marching towards Iran Embassy
20. Close of picture of Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran. Reading (English) "the Democratic Leader of the Iranian National Revolution."
21. Various of demo in front of embassy including flags of the US, Iran and Israel
STORYLINE:
Members of Romania's Iranian community held a demonstration, Sunday, against the Islamic regime in Tehran which is believed to have killed thousands of pro democracy protesters.

The Romanian demonstrators waved flags and placards at Victoria square, in Central Bucharest, demanding an end to the violence in Iran.

They held posters of Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and waved Iranian, US and Israeli flags and called for these nations to help the protesters in Iran.

Javid Tayebiderazkola told AP that he came to the demonstration ‘’to be a voice for the people who were told to speak no more.’’

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists New Agency, which relies on a network inside Iran to verify its information, reports that over 49,500 people have been detained in the crackdown.

It says the violence killed at least 6,713 people, the vast majority of them demonstrators.




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