Talk about Change mode resonates with Iranians that escaping across the border

“People want the regime to change,” Mariam said, the pensioner, when she collapsed in a taxi with her husband.

The couple have just dragged their heavy suitcases across the Bridge across the AraS rapid river, which marks the remote northern border of Iran with the small people of Armenia, in the southern region of the Caucasus.

“I went a long way and tired. The mood in Iran is not so good, but not so bad. Of course, people are worried, but life goes on. Supermarkets, shops, banks work.

She said that Israel and the United States wanted “the regime changed … But I don’t know if they would succeed, whether religious fanatics (in Tehran) will keep their position. We’ll see.”

The borderline offers a small window to Iran itself, at a time when the internet is being broken there and most foreign journalists are prohibited.

But it should be noted that many people who talked to us were double citizens, with American, German and other passports. In this sense, they only offer a very partial shooting of public mood in Iran.

The people we met usually supported the idea of ​​changing the regime – the idea that swimming President Trump after the United States stated that last weekend got into three Iranian nuclear places.

But Iran’s leaders still have supporters in the country, and even among those who oppose them, it is assumed that they are different about the bombing of their country.

On the busy border crossing, Agarak’s gusts of hot, dusty wind rotated around police cars, taxi and truck passage when a stable flow of people came out in Iran, from the long barbed wire fence, which are viewed by the guards.

In the bitterly challenged heritage of the Soviet era, Russian troops still patrol the border. The intersection itself is reduced by uneven, barren mountains and, along the edge of the river, a narrow strip of green agricultural land.

A Canadian diplomat, who was waiting to support the compatriots, said there were 80 people who had arrived for one hour. Such a speed appeared, an anecdotal, which increased on Monday, but it was unlikely to be the outcome.

Cars moved in both directions. Many of those who leaving refused to talk to us, referring to the concern of the safety of their families in Iran.

63 -year -old Alena, who said she was born in Iran in her parents’ parents, but grew up in Paris, said she feels “time for the regime.”

“Everyone is afraid, and everyone had enough of the regime,” she said. “There were a lot of bombing in front of my house. A lot of people go on. There’s a traffic. They don’t know where to go, where to be safe.”

The Canadian Iranians’ family told us that they had spent a previous night at the Caspian Sea and painted a picture of a problem, but a huge country where many areas were unsubstantinated with conflict.

Iran’s father, whose family lives in Germany, spoke on the condition that we are hiding his personality. Next to him, the younger woman planned to go on a long taxi with him, through steep mountain passages and narrow gorges, first to the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, and then to neighboring Georgia. Two cats were waiting for her in the basket in the shade.

“I would like to change Iran’s regime. Everything is broken and damaged,” the man said, adding that his end was “close”.

He criticized others who claimed, constantly complained about their government, but not ready to approve the borders of the military intervention.

“My family … maybe die, but it’s a war, and everything to change, we have to pay something.”

To donate? I asked.

“Yes,” he said firmly, emphasizing that he welcomed the decision of America to conflict.

President Trump’s decision on Iran’s bombing may have been when some decided that it was time to leave – if they have the opportunity to do so.

In the following days, new decisions – the US president and other world leaders – will dictate how many more people will come to this border, seeking security outside Iran.