Comedian Omid Djalili has urged the British public to "speak up" in support of the protests in Iran, which he compared to the days leading up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Thousands are believed to have been killed in a brutal regime crackdown on more than two weeks of protests throughout Iran. Official Iranian figures put the death toll at 2,000 on Tuesday but campaigners say thousands more are dead.
"It’s time for us to speak up. The world needs to act. We are on the precipice of something seismic," Djalili said on social media.
Djalili, a long-standing critic of the regime, has become one of the UK's most prominent voices on the protests since they began on December 28. He was joined by Iranian-born British comedian Shaparak Khorsandi, and former Love Island star Anna Vakili who took to social media in support of the demonstrator
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