Julia McFarlane
speaker
503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
Julia McFarlane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
At Iran's mountainous border crossing with Iraqi Kurdistan, the stern face of Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, peers down at the trickle of Iranians leaving the country.
Just past the last Iraqi border post, there's an Iranian flag fluttering in the snow.
Iran has shut down the internet and blocked phone calls into the country, but its borders are still open.
Inside the arrivals hall, dozens of men, women and children wait for passport checks.
Iranians don't need a visa to cross here, and many have relatives on the Iraqi side of the border.
No one told us they were fleeing Iran because of the government crackdown, but one man showed us several bruises on his face, saying security forces had shot him with pellets during a protest in central Iran last Friday.
He asked us to hide his identity.
I was hit in the face by around seven pellet rounds.
They struck above my eyelid, on my forehead, my cheek, my lip, under my ear, and along my jaw.
I had to use a razor blade to cut one of the pellets out.
Five are still stuck in my face.
I was too afraid of being arrested to get medical help.
Iran's regime has treated these protests as an existential threat.
Its crackdown seems to be working, with protests largely dying out.
But several people here, including the protester, told us that demonstrations had continued into this week.
Demonstrations were still continuing in Fardis, Malard and some areas of Tehran.
My friends were there.
We were constantly on the phone.
On Tuesday night, the protests were still going on, but I haven't had any updates since then.
The BBC has seen no hard evidence that street protests are continuing.
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