Noor Pahlavi and Yasmin Pahlavi in the anti-Iranian regime protest in Paris

Iris Farkhondeh, a 40-year-old French scholar who came to France as a refugee when she was a toddler, said she worries about rising Islamist extremism and the risk of terrorist attacks in France by religious extremists. “The battle we fight in Iran is the same as that in France,” she said.Other protesters described anger at Iran’s dress codes and encroaching restrictions on women. Some were afraid to give their names out of concerns for repercussions for family members in Iran.