In Iran, you never know who will take your life. But the regime is always behind it. If it can't silence you in the streets, it'll do it through execution.
The Iranian rial has hit another record low against the U.S. dollar. With soaring inflation, water shortages, daily power cuts, and unreliable internet, this summer is shaping up to be one to remember—for all the wrong reasons.
After weeks of promises that there would be no summer power cuts, the outages have started. Since yesterday, we're losing electricity for about 2 hours a day—even in the best-case scenario.
After 88 days of a digital blackout, they finally brought back internet—but the quality is absolute garbage. It's full of packet loss and timeouts, and we're expected to rely on government-backed, privileged third-party apps just to make it somewhat usable.
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The Iranian government calls this the return of the Internet. We still have to pay for special apps or VPNs just to access the real Internet and download a game.
My dream has always been simple: a normal life in Iran.
After 88 days of internet restrictions in Iran, the authorities handed people something that can barely be called internet—just enough to ease the pressure on the government.
Life in the prison that is Iran grows harder with each passing day.
The amount of time I've spent just trying to connect to the global internet—if I had spent that same time on anything else in a free country, I would have reached the highest levels of achievement in it.
As a gamer, after what they call the "restoration" of Iran's internet, you still have to install several apps like ExitLag and GearUP Booster and buy hundreds of V2Ray configurations just for a chance to connect to gaming servers—often with high ping and severe connection issues.