Posted on 06/21/2025 10:17:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As daily life becomes a struggle, Iranian authorities are tightening their grip, blacking out the internet and erecting more checkpoints.
DUBAI — A week of Israeli strikes has upended the lives of Iranians, battering vital infrastructure like fuel depots, airports and public buildings, and shaking the population’s confidence that it could remain insulated from conflicts in the wider Middle East.
Now, with President Donald Trump warning that U.S. forces could enter the fray if Iran doesn’t make significant concessions in nuclear negotiations, Iranians fear that another deadlier, even more destructive phase of the conflict could loom.
“People are terrified. They don’t know exactly what is happening,” said Alireza, a 40-year-old man from northern Tehran who decided to flee the capital this week. On his way out of Tehran, he said, he encountered chaotic scenes of bumper-to-bumper traffic. Once outside the city, he saw a thick layer of smoke from the airstrikes hanging over the skyline.
Inside Tehran, people described in interviews a daily struggle for basic needs. Electricity and water are still available, but cuts have become more frequent. Food prices have soared, cash is in short supply, and the wait for fuel can be up to five hours at some gas stations. Some of the Iranians interviewed spoke on the condition that only their first names be published while others spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation from the regime.
As at other moments of crisis, Iranian authorities have responded by clamping down. The government, for instance, has imposed a near-total blackout of the internet, and the country has been disconnected from the global internet since the middle of this week, according to NetBlocks, a monitoring group that tracks internet outages.
While the blackout may be designed to prevent Israel from exploiting the internet for intelligence and military targeting,...
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They already spent that pallet of cash Soetoros sent them?
Mike Tobin of FOX News reporting that over half of Iran’s missile capability has been taken down. Massive evac of Tehran in progress.
They could always dump leaflets.
The article is talking about how Iranian people are running out of cash to buy necessities as the attacks continue and the internet fails and the banking infrastructure collapses.
Its a great argument against the idea of Central Bank Digital Currencies, which are ultimately dependent on fragile electronic communication systems.
Russia can bail them out - wait?
Strange statement given that Iran is already the center of those wider conflicts.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4324473/posts?page=34#34
I don’t believe anything from either government now (Iran’s or Israel’s).
And WaPo uses anecdotal arguments in this article but they did report that Iran had cracked down on the internet which was to be expected from Iran.
Now we’re about to most likely see a ton of fake news coming out of Israel given a new crackdown on reporting there.
No one is asking the Israeli govt to report the damage being done in their country, which appears to be worse than what is being reported by legacy media.
Sadly, there’s no sense now in believing the reports coming from the Israeli government that the missle strikes in Israel aren’t thst bad, or not as bad as claimed by sone, and to not believe Col. MacGregor (and others, btw).
Obviously not everyone has done or would do what some teporters have done or gone as far as to report exact locations.
I guess we can enjoy our most likely fake news from here on, or potential new Ghost of Kyiv-like stories coming out of Israel.
And pointing our the flaws of what the Israeli government is doing does not make someone Iran First. It’s illogical to say otherwise:
“Ben-Gvir and Karhi crack down on foreign press coverage of war damage in Israel”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4324385/posts
“Its a great argument against the idea of Central Bank Digital Currencies, which are ultimately dependent on fragile electronic communication systems.”
Very good point and one not often considered or discussed.
McGregor is a pipeline for the Russians. Just in case you haven’t figured that out by now- and it appears you haven’t.
McGregor is a pipeline for the Russians. Just in case you haven’t figured that out by now- and it appears you haven’t.
(Either that, or you don’t mind getting your news from the Kremlin, which seems to be the case.)
“shaking the population’s confidence that it could remain insulated from conflicts in the wider Middle East”
well, it’s exactly what the German population thought for the first year or two of WWII that the nazis started with the rest of the world ...
in fact, just replace “Iran/Iranian” with “German” OR ‘nazi” and replace “Israel” with “the Allies”, and the entire wapo article [ https://archive.ph/sDV82] would read pretty the same as if had been written towards the end of WWII ...
Not sure why Israel hasn’t started destroying Iran’s power grid.
Just a few sorties with guided bombs could darken half of Iran.
Regime change would come pretty quick when half the population has no AC, fridges or night time lights or TV. And the other half fears it will happen to them too.
When quantum computing comes online all encryption will be useless and we will have to go back to physical money.
The other unspoken mystery to this is why won’t Iran move its government to Iraq and hide in the Shia political reality there?
The communist Chinese flew in “strategic cargo” to Iran right through the USA- Israeli “air supremacy” cordon.
We haven’t heard or seen what is in it. But it could be very dangerous.
There’s been something keeping the Satanjc Iranian dictators going. Hoping for new advanced weapons from communist China, perhaps?
Israel has got this all on its own.
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