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Nouripour and Tabatabai at the SPIEGEL "Top Talks" with Markus Feldenkirchen
In view of the ongoing protests in Iran, Jasmin Tabatabai expects a "direct announcement" from Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to the President Ebrahim Raisi there.
"That would be very welcome," said the German-Iranian actress and singer in SPIEGEL's top-level discussion with Markus Feldenkirchen.
With her promise for a feminist foreign policy, Baerbock “raised great hopes in all of us”.
She hopes "that the well-intentioned and affected words will not stop there, but that there will also be action," said Tabatabai.
There must be "an end to this policy of appeasement of those in power" in Tehran.
Tabatabai demanded »the targeted identification of the power elite and the targeted sanctioning of these people.
You have to put a stop to them.«
Women in Iran are "systematically discriminated against," Tabatabai said, citing an example: "You can't get a divorce because the children then automatically go to the man." By taking part in the protests, the demonstrators would "risk everything «.
"Dissatisfaction is everywhere," she reported.
Nouripour: "People in Iran are no longer afraid"
Greens co-leader Omid Nouripour believes Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is “up to his neck in water and is slowly realizing it”.
In the top-level discussion, the Tehran-born politician doubted that there could be reforms in the mullahs' regime.
"There are no longer any reformers there who are trusted to do anything," Nouripour said.
The regime has lost all credit among the population.
"They made so many promises and didn't deliver in the end." The leadership in Tehran had "the only answer left was violence," Nouripour said.
"Hardcore fundamentalists", "completely crazy people" are in power.
Nouripour cited an example from everyday life in Iran: If pistachios are not open but closed, the regime says: "They are not blessed by Ali's eye." Nouripour: "And that's what they mean." Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, still plays a central role in the faith of Shiites like the Iranian regime.
"The people there are no longer afraid," Nouripour said about the protests from acquaintances in Iran.
Despite being beaten by the security forces, they kept going to the demonstrations.
An acquaintance told him: »Today I have too many bruises.
I'm going to demonstrate again tomorrow.«
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