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 videos… each of which took me a full hour just to download from Instagram. (Who would have thought!)
Most of the videos and images of Iran’s 2026 People’s Movement live on Instagram and Telegram — because that is where the vast majority of Iranians visit online.
I felt it in my bones: I must gather these short, burning fragments and carry them to YouTube as well.
If this speed holds, I will keep coming back at these sacred midnight hours.
One video carries the blood-chilling scream of a disaster engineered by the Islamic Republic:
They severed the internet so the world would believe nothing was happening… while in that horrifying darkness, crimes without name were being committed.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p2PFeCgd0Q4
Another holds the face of a hero —
a story of courage, sacrifice, of a soul that gave everything and asked for nothing in return.
A martyr.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P9-hdW0qQcY
Then come the montages… faces upon faces of the young who fell for the homeland.
They shouted Freedom with all the fire in their chests —
and the world choked that cry in their throats.
We will not let their voices be silenced. Never.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7m5Nv_Lx-HE
And the last one… children.
Children of Iran who blossomed and were cut down on the very road to freedom.
How I wish — with every fiber of my being — that all of it were a lie.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZR_nXhmbD80
Perhaps if I had never seen that photograph… the tiny face, the bullet wound right through it…
perhaps then my heart could still pretend. But I saw.
We all saw. And so at two o’clock in the morning, while the rest of the city sleeps,
I sit here — uploading fire, uploading memory, uploading names that must not fade. For as long as breath remains in me,
their voices will find a way to echo.
