Mumbai: Iranian actor-model Mandana Karimi, who is currently in India, feels betrayed as she lost a lot of friends in Mumbai after openly speaking about Iran and taking part in protests.
In an interview with Instant Bollywood, Mandana shared that she is ready to return to Iran now as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime, which she described as cancerous, has come to an end following his death in a joint strike by the United States and Israel on February 28,
“What I see for Iran is a free Iran where women can do whatever they want, wear whatever they want, whatever university they want to go and study. I see Iran which has a great relationship with Middle East that we are not a threat to people. But we are a nation that builds the Middle East… The moment they announce that this regime is gone, I will go. Anyway, my bags are packed, and I am leaving India as well. That is the plan because I feel I am breaking up with India. It is very difficult for me because I came to India when I was really young. India has given me everything: my modelling career, my acting career, the love that I got, and the friends that I have. But I feel I don’t have a voice in India,” she was quoted as saying by the news portal.
“In these past two months, I have never felt so homesick and lonely in Bombay. I have a lot of friends here, but unfortunately, I went to protests, and I was talking about Iran so openly that I lost a lot of ‘so-called’ friends. I feel India has betrayed me in a way. India has given me what it was supposed to give, and now it’s time to move on, and hopefully I am going to move to Iran,” she added.
Iran has vowed to avenge the death of Khamenei and launched a wave of strikes using drones and missiles targeting multiple Arab countries as retaliatory action.
