The Metro: The view of Iran from Windsor
Sam Corey, The Metro February 18, 2026This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people around the world protested the Iranian government.
Supporters of Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi carry a banner presenting the people were killed in Iran during recent uprising, while attending a demonstration in Toronto, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026.
There’s a lot of fear and uncertainty in Iran right now.
Protestors have faced a violent reaction from Iran’s political leaders, resulting in the death of thousands of Iranians. But the demonstrations, nonetheless, have continued — and not just in Iran.
This past weekend, the Iranian diaspora and others — amounting to hundreds of thousands of people around the world — protested the Iranian government.
The demonstrations occurred in Germany and Los Angeles and Toronto and across the river, in Windsor.
One of the people participating the ongoing protests is Mahshid Soleimani. She’s a PhD student at the University of Windsor and a leader of an Iranian student group on campus. She spoke about her perspective, as part of the Iranian diaspora, with The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent.
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Sam Corey is a producer for 101.9 WDET, which includes finding and preparing interesting stories for the daily news, arts and culture program, The Metro. Sam joined WDET after a year and a half at The Union, a small newspaper in California, and stints at a variety of local Michigan outlets, including WUOM and the Metro Times. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. -