Iranian Australians say they are at breaking point and fed up with government inaction as family members are executed, tortured and imprisoned back home.
Australian-Iranian leaders want the government to step in and go harder against the theocratic and authoritarian regime, which has begun executing protesters.
Prominent activist Tina Kordrostami said she has reached the point where she does not care if pro-regime agents took the next step to violence against her, in order to garner attention and force stronger action by the Albanese government against the regime.
“It’s a sad point to get to but it’s a coverage game,” she said.
“I’m one human life but it’s the future of a whole country, millions of people.”
Ms Kordrostami said threats and online abuse increased as her prominence in the community grew when she nominated to run for NSW parliament as a Greens candidate.
She said there is no community aid or sufficiently strong mental health support in place to help deal with the trauma back home.
The activist is calling on the government to help facilitate time off with employers for people whose families are being tortured and executed.
Ms Kordrostami said about one in 10 community members she speaks to have had family members executed or detained and the numbers continue to grow as the brutal crackdown intensifies.
Read the article by Dominic Giannini in The Canberra Times.