News about Bitcoin in Iran and the gradual progress towards the acceptance of cryptocurrencies especially among the ordinary people, not just rich and influential people, but the real ones and the same people I care about the most. Of course, to achieve this, many obstacles must be crossed.
20 Aug 2026 2 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr
At the supermarket, the prices had climbed again. A yogurt costs 210,000 Tomans — about a dollar and a half. I told myself, skip the yogurt, today. buy Doogh instead. Only 40,000 Tomans (24 cents). That will do. When I get home, I should clean the...
16 Aug 2026 1 minute read 9 comments Melina Mehr
Remembering the days of January 7 and 8… Have you ever forgotten a memory, only for it to rush back into your mind all at once, clear as day, at a moment you never saw coming? And you ask yourself, “Why did I ever forget it?” I was walking with frien...
9 Aug 2026 2 minute read 30 comments Melina Mehr
You must be curious to know what that graffiti meant. If you want, let me tell you the story... These days I see so many videos of people in the United States calling their government fascist and dictatorship, shouting all kinds of slogans. To be...
3 Jul 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
Memories of Ashura… A city dressed in black, mourning for others, when it should be crying for itself. Today I left the house to buy some fruit and vegetables. The whole city is covered in black. If you don’t know why, let me tell you an old story....
27 Jun 2026 2 minute read 16 comments Melina Mehr
After three months of complete isolation — no internet, cut off from the entire outside world — the country that had sunk into total digital darkness is finally back online. It’s been about a month now since the connection has returned. Slowly, u...
17 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
The man in the white hoodie, carrying an injured person through the blood-soaked streets of Iran during the protests, is named Hamid Mahdavi. He was a young firefighter from Mashhad—a kind-hearted, funny guy who ran an Instagram page about firefi...
15 Feb 2026 3 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
Yesterday my sister was arrested. My mother broke the news to me over the phone, her voice trembling. One sister already wounded, taken to surgery. Now this one—taken away. What is happening to our family? The strange, almost bitter irony is...
13 Feb 2026 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
It is two in the morning. I woke up to upload a few videos to YouTube. At this hour the internet flows like a quiet river, fast and clean… and the VPNs — for once — actually work. In just half an hour I managed to upload all four videos. Four vide...
11 Feb 2026 2 minute read 13 comments Melina Mehr
(What you are reading are my memories from those twenty endless days when the Islamic Republic regime cut off the internet and SMS across the whole of Iran. A month has passed since then, and for about ten days now the internet has come back—sort o...
9 Feb 2026 2 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
I know I sound like a broken record, but just so you know: the internet is still completely cut off. Another full day has slipped away in this suffocating silence. I run an online shop, so my entire livelihood has ground to a halt. I try to fill...
