Internet outage
A call that never connected/ Mahtab Alinejad
It’s almost three in the morning. The cold light of a mobile phone illuminates the room, and the hands of a young girl in a European city restlessly glide across the screen. She dials her mother’s number for the umpteenth time. It beeps, then hangs up. Again. No messages are exchanged. The internet is down […]...
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Mahtab Alinezhad
February 20, 2026
Red Iran; From “Disconnection of Contact” to “Disconnection of Life”/ Nafiseh Laleh
Tehran, evening of January 18, 1404, around 8:00 PM His excited voice echoes in the echo of the desperate voices of the street and my heart skips a beat. The call is cut off around the first minute and remains cut off for the following days and weeks; like ourselves, from life. We do not […]...
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Nafiseh Laleh February 20, 2026
When the Internet Was Shut Down, the Image Spoke/ Raha Sabet Sarvestani
The release of videos related to the events of Kahrizak, at a time when the internet was widely shut down inside Iran, triggered a wave of shock and reaction among public opinion abroad—particularly among the Iranian diaspora, international observers, politicians, and human rights activists. This phenomenon cannot be regarded merely as a media event; rather, […]...
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Raha Sabet Sarvestani February 20, 2026
