Children are dying, 17, 18, 19-year-olds are being executed. There is no more WhatsApp. The internet doesn’t work. Every time I try to speak to my family I get cut off 10 times in a minute. They are under control and I have no idea how they are doing, I just feel their pain. It’s a scary time for everyone in Iran but change is happening and we are making history.
I was born in Tehran just after the revolution, at the start of the Iran-Iraq War. What I remember from my childhood are the dark days — the very bad times. Everyone knows about the history of Iran and how everything turned really dark after the 1979 revolution. The Islamic Republic regime has created an atmosphere of fear for the past 44 years. In school we were taught to lie and to think of imaginary enemies. We can’t dance, we can’t party, we can’t drink, we can’t gather with boyfriends and girlfriends and have fun. Fear was always in the background for our friends, family and colleagues.
