In Berlin, Kosar Eftekhari, an Iranian woman who lost an eye after being shot by regime security forces during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests in Tehran, was confronted while waving the Lion and Sun flag and chanting, “IRGC are terrorists.”
Video footage showed a man approaching her and shouting “Allahu Akhbar” (“God is greatest”) and “Khamenei Akhbar” (“Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is the greatest”).
Shortly afterward, Eftekhari was seen being followed by a group of keffiyeh-clad demonstrators. In one video, a woman wearing a Palestinian flag sticker on her face appeared to pursue Eftekhari before attempting to grab both her and her flag, prompting local police officers to intervene.
The young woman was later recorded confirming that charges had been filed against her after admitting, “I pushed away the Iranian flag from a woman.”
The incident comes as Berlin faces internal divisions over whether to inform the public about national security threats linked to Iran, The New York Times reported last week, citing seven senior German officials familiar with the discussions.
Even before the war started between Israel and Iran, three senior officials said that European intelligence had identified about 50 suspected plots by Iran-linked underground groups in Germany.
In Bologna, 2,000 protesters marched with American and Israeli banners in addition to the Iranian flag in protest over an incident on April 26, in which a female protester was reportedly threatened with rape in front of police, according to Bologna Today.
There are unconfirmed reports that pro-Palestinian demonstrators launched trash at the protesters.
Demonstrations were also lightly disrupted in Brussels by a woman screaming “Free Palestine! F*** Israel! F*** the US! F*** Pahlav,” according to Belgian politician Sam van Rooy, who shared footage of the incident. The woman was quickly escorted away, and the demonstration continued.
In Toronto, a man was also reportedly detained after he rammed several cars with his vehicle while displaying a flag in support of the regime.
York Regional Police and organizers of the Toronto protest have not yet responded to The Jerusalem Post’s request for comment.
