Dainel, who was also at the Manchester rally, reckons many compatriots at home and abroad support the attacks for the time being, adding those at the rally “want to be the voice of Iranians”.
“We don’t want this regime because it is doing everything very badly,” he says.
Among the flags waved at the rally, there were some representing the US and Israel.
When asked if he had trust in US and Israeli leaders, he said: “We trust them more than the mullahs (religious clerics) in power in Iran because what they say, they do.
“And we see what the mullahs say, they never do.”
Vahidi is more cautious, saying: “I don’t want to fantasise and think they have our interest in mind – obviously any politician thinks about their own and their country’s interests first and foremost.
“But at this moment in time, personally as an Iranian and any other person who I have spoken to, there is no other way in front of us.”
