Iranian expatriate Atusa Sabagh is leading the protests against the Vienna nuclear talks, holding up a sign calling leaders of the Iranian regime "terrorists."
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Speaking to Israel Hayom, Sabagh explains that the protesters managed to upset, if only momentarily, head of the Iranian delegation to the talks, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bakri Kani.
"He turned in our direction and pointed at us," she says with satisfaction as she discusses the incident, which was caught on camera.
Bakri appeared surprised that the Austrians had allowed the protesters to approach the corner near the Palais Coburg.
In Austria, a logistics official explained, security arrangements are low-key, so aside from police personnel and occasional security checks, there are no barricades set up when events like these talks are under way.
Bakri was able to hear every word the demonstrators yelled at him.
"He was very worried by us," says fellow activist Abbas, who adds, "Bakri is almost [Iranian President] Ebrahim Raisi, he's a terrorist, too."
Safar knows from personal experience how brutal the Iranian regime can be. She fled Iran five years ago after she was arrested and faced a lengthy prison sentence. She says she made her escape via Turkey and is in direct contact with hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter, who tell her about the recent government quashing of protests in Isfahan.
"The regime is drying up the Isfahan area, turning it into desert. I've seen their crimes. The Iranian people are suffering from the crimes of this inhumane regime," she says.
"Every day, I'm in contact with hundreds of thousands of people who support us, not the Iranian terrorist regime," she says.
When asked how people could trust the son of the former shah of Iran, who wants to return to power and says he will not be corrupt like his late father, Safar and Abbas reject the working assumption about the former shah that is prevalent in the West.
"Do you really believe the shah was corrupt? There weren't more than 300,000 people who took to the streets in 1979," they say.
Q: But he wasn't particularly popular, right?
"That's wrong. We don't believe that. In Isfahan, people are shouting, 'Death to the dictator! Bring back the shah of Iran! God bless Reza Shah, and long live the king!'"
Q: Do you have anything to say to the people of Israel?
"We, the Iranians, always loved the Jewish people, for thousands of years. We were always friends and fought terrorism together."
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