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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore Community affairs reporter

With just weeks left on her Australian student visa, one Iranian woman fears she will be executed if she has to return

Black clad security forces stand in front of a large Iranian flag
Regime security forces in Tehran, Iran. An Iranian woman studying in Australia says she fears for her safety if she has to return to Iran. Photograph: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

When bullets fired by Iran’s paramilitary force were sprayed at her home during a 2022 protest, Atefeh* realised her country was in a “hostage situation”.

“I couldn’t breathe any more. I was losing my mind and I was traumatised,” the activist says.

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