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15 Feb 2026 3 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr $0.64
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 $0.22
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 $0.37
(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 $0.27
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...
8 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25 $0.16
The renewed US-Iran tensions have brought geopolitical risks back to the forefront. At the time of writing, no actual military operations have begun. While Europe has given the US a green light with its message, it's clear that Iran represents much m...
7 Feb 2026 4 minute read 10 comments Melina Mehr $0.30
Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is unlock my phone and stare at that little icon in the top right corner—the one that should mean connection to the world. And how bitterly it hurts when you see it crossed out, silent, dead. Cut...
4 Feb 2026 4 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr $0.33
Days have passed since the internet went dark. I don’t even have the energy left to count how many. To anyone sitting comfortably far away, unable to imagine how terrifying a total internet blackout can be: I dare you—turn yours off, along with e...
3 Feb 2026 2 minute read 9 comments Melina Mehr $0.37
A video has surfaced — released after two days — showing security forces unleashing widespread, direct gunfire on protesters in Tabriz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHZTdRGvzg Unarmed protesters standing defiant against armed security agents...
2 Feb 2026 4 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr $0.28
Day five of the blackout and all I have left is writing. Today marks the second full day that our internet has been completely severed. Yesterday I went to a friend’s house and — according to satellite channels — NetBlocks confirmed that nationwide...
1 Feb 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr $0.31
My heart couldn’t bear it. I sent several messages—and then I learned the words that stopped my breath: “My sister had been shot” That night, when I finally reached home, my calls to my sister met only the same cold, mechanical voice: “The subs...
