Extremist hardliners have taken control of the country. For forty days, the internet has been almost completely cut off for more than ninety percent of the population, while access is sold on the black market at outrageous prices. Countless online businesses have collapsed. Unemployment is rising, companies are laying off workers, and families are being forced to sell their gold savings just to survive. People are powerless in the face of inflation and joblessness. No one can start a business, and no company has the ability to hire. Meanwhile, neighboring countries—including the UAE, once one of Iran’s largest trading partners-are canceling residency visas and deporting Iranians. Executions continue, and almost every day brings news of another young life taken. The regime uses its own people as a shield while spending their money on bombs and missiles. Iran stands in its most fragile moment. If this path continues, the result will be a poor, isolated nation.

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Thank you for being the example why meshnets and energy autarky are so important for basic survival to ogeanize complex societies. The state has always their own goals. Companies are just an extension of the state. At all times people can organise and build something to serve themselves but people need to relearn how to run informal economies. Many people do not listen when we talk about Monero and meshnets they rather would wnat to rely on faith in the state-us quo. Good luck and all the best to you and your friends. Let us know if we can contribute to your well-being/safety.
The UAE frequently purges the visitors on work visa's. Its their country, they do as they see fit.
Wake up, they're suffocating the economy to control the masses, classic globalist playbook.
It’s always so challenging finding the right words when there is so much destruction going on. I wish you and all the human beings suffering during this time of uncertainty support, hope and innovation 🌈 🙏🏼🍀
that assumes they are even actually doing it because iran doesn't confirm most of it. i am quite sure it is all a show for the gullible voters. and better, the psychotic LLM powered propaganda infects every social network, even here, where lukewarm cowards still hang out on military industrial X
The internet blackout and economic collapse you describe fits Iran’s pattern of tightening control amid unrest—but external pressure like the Natanz strike deepens the regime’s siege mentality. I just read how US bunker busters hit Fordow-level facilities, which will escalate both crackdowns and desperation.
I hope most americans get the informatin, that Iran has now more power in diplomacy than they have had before the war. Before they had only one thing to offer. To firm contracts on not building nuclear weapons. With that they did not acchieve any relief in sanctions. Now they have the straight of hormus to offer. And the iranian regime has learned, that they are capable to stop every ship from passing, even when the US military does about everything to hold the straight open. So the USA committed crimes against humanity, destroyed a lot of infrastructure in Iran, invested a lot of US taxpayer money and killed US soldiers only to increase consumer prices for all Oil-depending products and to improve the diplomatic stance of the iranian regime. Who can see all this and still think that #trump would be able to make US economy thrive? Not a single result out of all this desaster improves the life of US citizens.
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the axiom yesterday
but how did you manage to survive being gay in iran?
It’s good to hear from you, friend. 💗 I try to imagine myself in your position and I simply cannot. Thank you for reaching out despite the cost.
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Benking yesterday
I’m really glad you messaged, but I haven’t heard from my loved ones for almost four days now. Damn the oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic.
We love you Pegah, and your amazing work. Thank you for reaching out and keeping us up to date. We embrace your sovereign quest and hold you and your sovereign-seeking friends/family/compatriots. Are you on Bitchat? Do you have a geohash?
Your posts suck. How hard is it to just type "kill all Israelis" You can type all these paragraphs but can't add a single good sentence to make it a good post, because you're a GLOWIE
Replying to say despite her posts being glowie shitshit, her being on nostr makes me also hope she's ok - not that my opinion matters to anyone, I just don't want the historic record to look like I don't want safety for a nostr user in a place being bombed
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Troy yesterday
Thank you so much for paying the price to give us an insight to what is happening. I hope when you have consistent Internet again, that we can help recoup the costs with a large volume of sales. I'm curious what designs all of this will inspire. Keep imagining the paradise that can result from the ugliness of the present. It's a serious challenge, and I have faith that you can do it.
Pegah, everyone can see now that most of the problems people have in Iran, is due to USA and Israel who bomb schools and other civilian infrastructure and kill children and other civilians.
No, we can't all see that. Iran has its own problems. It had them before they started getting bombed and it will have them after they stop being bombed. If anything, the fanatics are now stronger than ever before and will crack down even harder on people wanting personal freedom, so it's a terrible own-goal from America, for sure. On that note, @saeed how are things?
Well i said most of the problems. Not all. For example the financial problems mentioned by Pegah, have their roots on USA and Israel politics. Isn't that so? You think most of the problems people have in Iran, are due to islamist hardliners?
No, other countries around them also have Islamist hardliners running their governments, and they are generally better-off. I think these particular Islamist hardliners seem curiously indifferent to the well-being and prosperity of their citizenry, and that this war gives them an excuse to double-down on their decrepit incompetence and delay reforms. I do not think that they are fanatics because they are orthodox Muslims. I think they are fanatics because they have abandoned any interest in good governance, in order to pursue utopia by violent and tyrannical means. Ending the war won't change that.
Ah i see. I think they are sovereign and this is the difference with the others and this is why they had sanctions. Do you remember for example Israel bombing Qatar to kill some negotiators without caring what Qatar thinks? If Iran eliminates the restrictions caused by USA and Israel, like it seems it does now, they should be more prosperous than the others who have lost their sovereignity. Iran kept its sovereignity despite being the most sanctioned country for decades. You cannot do that without some good governance. I agree though that ending the war will not change the tyranical elements of the iranian regime. But i hope the iranian society will do that without external interference, especially from the racist and terrorisy state of Israel and USA. I think that the election of Pezeskian was a step towards this already.
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Benking yesterday
I can’t even put into words how much your support means to me. Seriously, thank you for being here for me. I’ll share any updates as soon as I hear anything… just really hoping it’s soon. Having you all with me makes this a little easier 🧡
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DecBytes yesterday
So good to hear from you again, since I have been praying for your safety!!! Reading your post I will now also pray for Iranian leadership that value the people they govern and want to see them prosper in freedom, safety and security. May this hold that hardliners have at last be broken.
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DecBytes yesterday
Reading the comments on this is a bit disappointing. Only a few people actually read what was said. Most are just plugging it into their preconceived worldview to fit a narrative they already hold strong. Their replies are ‘Let me tell you what is actually going on in your country’. View quoted note →
worse than that, it's a cult public confession to extract intelligence to craft the next strategy
De tout cœur avec toi, on pense à toi... En espérant que le cauchemar s'apaise et disparaisse vite💜
How does voting for one puppet versus another change things? Voters thought Trump was not a puppet, and like clockwork they were played again.
IMO the problem is a bit deeper. Someone literally exploited a human DNA flaw, called "religion". The flaw is mosty caused by a trigger-happy pattern recognition in humans, which makes it possible to exist at all. But. The "religion" mechanism is not only about religions in general, it's actually flexible and can take... anything in. Including murders, death or love and whatever you can come up with. In this case: an aggressive islam. The time window when this mechanism can be used is narrow. But it's not important here. What is important - most of the time it's irreversible. So we have a literally irreversible exploit for humans. Now you can think of such people as "infected". This leads to yet another problem - if it's impossible to "cure", then what to do with them? Current action is: to kill. Why not use fear? Fear is a very good control mechanism for humans. But what if the exploit which inserted the beahavior, also included a "fear disabler"? Islam is a very tricky "program" - religion, and includes exactly that, that's why it's so successful. Also... those people, those "hardliners", they genuinly think, what they do is right. That's how this programming works and is no different from other religions which are just less aggressive.
Clearly whoever did not see, that this man only has one orientation (to fill his personal wallet), lacks critical thinking. This is clear before his first election was a topic and never changed. Voter get what they ask for. That is the hard truth. When voters vote for rage, thay should not blame others, when politics is about rage afterwards.