The Iran War

Iran’s regime kept us in darkness for so long, closing the doors of Internet on us, and heavily censoring DeltaChat instances within Iran. They do not want people to exchange information among themselves inside Iran. And they also want to block the information flow to and from Iran.

I total agree the Iran regime is not the only entity benefiting from Internet outage. I have written a separate post about that in me Persian blog, as it’s more fit for Iranians than for foreigners.

As much as we look happy from the outside, the truth is we are just hiding the real thing, also from ourselves. It’s actually better for us like this. We always laugh at our sufferings from the very beginnings when the US sanctions started. But the truth is, the mental pressure on us is high these days.

But what makes it worse, is words of foreigners outside Iran, about us, our government and our country. They unknowingly make judgements with great error. And they hurt us a lot. It’s very much natural given that they are not in here to realize what is it like to be an Iranian living in Iran. They even do not understand what is it like to be an Iranian living outside Iran, away from your people and homeland. And an Internet outage making it worse…

I received such these words from multiple online friends or coworkers as soon as I found a hole to connect to the Internet. Humans do make mistakes. One of the close friends apologized. Some didn’t apology nor they took their word back. It greatly hurts.

What happened inside the country, in early 2026, made us drop enough tears. And they pushed many of us into mental illnesses, if we already weren’t in that valley. We still smile though. And go to work and try, really try, to be productive. Oh and we are talking about who have enough to put in their belly! For many others, mental health is not really a thing to care about. Oh a full trashcan is spotted! Let’s see if we can find a piece of bread or cake in there!

Remember these about medias:

• Medias are master at deceiving. And if they are smart, they do so by telling you the truth, however not all of it. I’ve written in me Persian blog, I’m writing it again in here: An incomplete truth can be more misleading than no truth. A capital “Q” becomes a capital “O” if you put a hand to hide its tail.
• As much as you can, get news from people who are directly dealing with the things. If not, you have to get news from multiple diverse sources and then try to analyze them. If you still don’t want to do that, then stay an ignorant who is aware of their ignorance as Socrates puts it.

And in wars:

• If someone is fighting a demon, not always they are an angel fighting.
• If someone is fighting an angel, not always they are a demon fighting.
• Most entities in this world are not pure good or pure bad. They are not only black and white but something in between and close to one of the sides.
• Entities which are mostly good, still would make mistakes or even do bad things.
• Entities which are mostly evil, still would make good things or do good things, even great things.
• Between two evil demons, there is often a demon which is less evil. The wise human chooses the least bad.
• Entities often don’t stay the same, they might be good turned evil or vice versa.

There are often questions “Who did that?”. As a mere citizen, you often cannot reach the source(s) or even get near them. But in big games, you can often make an educated guess who made that move. The question you have to answer is that who benefits most from it? And who gets most hurt? Of course, it doesn’t always show the truth nor it might be very accurate. But most of the time, the arrow hits very close to mark.