Total Repression And Air Strikes Bring Unrelenting Dread For Iranians

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Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondent


A woman stands on a roof listening to the noises of the city below. There is only the dull hum of traffic tonight. But she understands how quickly that can change. It is normally the pets who discover the noise very first and start to bark intensely. The sound of airplane. Then the ominous percussion of surges. A ball of orange increasing from an airstrike in a familiar area.


The BBC has acquired video and interviews from Tehran which stimulate a city of stretched nerves, of consistent waiting on the next blast and relentless fear of the state security device.


Baran - not her real name - is a businesswoman in her thirties. She is now too frightened to go to work. "With the start of the drone attacks, no one attempts to go outside. If I open my door and step out, it resembles gambling with my life."


She lives alone however remains in consistent communication with her good friends. "My buddies and I message each other continuously asking where everyone is ... and even when there is no noise the silence itself is scary. I am doing whatever I can to survive and witness whatever lies ahead."


Thus many young Iranians, Baran saw her hopes of modification devastated in current months. Thousands of people were eliminated in a crackdown by program forces in January after prevalent demonstrations requiring change.


"I can not even keep in mind how I used to live in the past without being reminded of the loved one I lost during the demonstrations," she states. "I fear tomorrow. I fear the individual I will be tomorrow. Today, I survive somehow, but how will I make it through tomorrow? That is the genuine question. Will I even endure tomorrow?"


Now repression is overall. Open dissent is difficult as the state's watchers are all over. Footage we got programs program supporters driving through the city during the night, flags flying from their cars and trucks - a message to any who might be lured to protest.


The main story is the only one enabled. State footage of demonstrations and funeral services. Interviews with pro-regime officials and protestors offer duplicated denunciations of America and Israel. In government propaganda the Iranian people are extolled as ready to suffer martyrdom.


Independent reporters still try to gather statement that provides a reliable alternative view, however they risk of arrest, abuse and perhaps even worse. As one of them told me: "In wartime conditions you truly do not know what they can doing."

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