Posted on 06/20/2025 9:21:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Fleeing Iran with her husband and toddler, Amena Namjoyan reached a rocky beach of this eastern Greek island along with hundreds of thousands of others. For months, their arrival overwhelmed Lesbos. Boats fell apart, fishermen dove to save people from drowning, and local grandmothers bottle-fed newly arrived babies.
Namjoyan spent months in an overcrowded camp. She learned Greek. She struggled with illness and depression as her marriage collapsed. She tried to make a fresh start in Germany but eventually returned to Lesbos, the island that first embraced her. Today, she works at a restaurant, preparing Iranian dishes that locals devour, even if they struggle to pronounce the names. Her second child tells her, “‘I’m Greek.’”
“Greece is close to my culture, and I feel good here,” Namjoyan said. “I am proud of myself.”
In 2015, more than 1 million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe — the majority by sea, landing in Lesbos, where the north shore is just 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Turkey. The influx of men, women and children fleeing war and poverty sparked a humanitarian crisis that shook the European Union to its core. A decade later, the fallout still reverberates on the island and beyond.
For many, Greece was a place of transit. They continued on to northern and western Europe. Many who applied for asylum were granted international protection; thousands became European citizens. Countless more were rejected, languishing for years in migrant camps or living in the streets. Some returned to their home countries. Others were kicked out of the European Union.
For Namjoyan, Lesbos is a welcoming place — many islanders share a refugee ancestry, and it helps that she speaks...
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Remember it well from the Obama era - the source of those migrants? The destroyed countries of Syria and Libya.
Weaponized migration, courtesy of globalists, neocons, and Neo-marxists
Its used on Europe
Under Biden, it was used on the USA.
Now tell me how “regime change” in Iran is supposed to work out
zero mention about how these Muslim refuges soon begin to harass the local European women, forever changing the safety of the home nation for its locals.
DJT, add this island to your list of receiving lands for our deportees. It’s wonderful to find places so welcoming for these leeches....
You mean the phones don't say 'For Greek press 1. For Persian press 2'?
I thought when you hear that you are a successful nation! 😀
Sappho of ancient Greece on this island Lesbos popularized “Lesbianism” there.
Wonder how that tradition interfaces with the Mohammedan invaders?
It will work out well for Iranians. Hamas, Hezbollah and Russia will be the losers.
Back when the Vietnam war ended one of our workers wondered who the next war would be with. I thought a few minutes and said, “islam”. I was not the only person who thought that.
I also wondered if such wars would cause massive migrations of people into Europe and the US. It did.
Send them to Spain. They’re claiming the economy there is rising because of foreigners.
I don't know much about Persian names but I wonder if this woman might be Armenian--a lot of names ending in -ian or -yan are Armenian (but not all of them).
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