‘They will kill us’: Suncoast residents raise alarms over Iran

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Organizers calling the Sunday afternoon protest a struggle for freedom and human rights.

Negin Sami organized the gathering and she tells ABC7 this issue is bigger than them and they want to let the community know what is happening to their homeland. Sami publically stood up to the Islamic regime and because of that has been banished.

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“I truly believe that this is a revolution forming and it has already formed, and since I partook in that, stood against a dictator, there is no chance i can go back to my country. I haven’t seen my family in more than a decade, I used to visit them annually and now for the fear of my life and my family’s safety I can’t go back there.

Another protester, Bonnie Ziai, tell ABC7 the same thing happened to her.

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“It’s sad to see that families can’t go back to see other family members, we can’t go back to see our homeland, we can’t go back to see where we were growing up, we can’t take our children to go back to see our homeland...for many of us, if we go back right now, they will kill us.”

The protest was held at Bayfront Park in Sarasota, January 11th, from 2:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.