Hannah Jaffe-Walt
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 May
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and Israel and by Iran.
Also lots about oil prices and the stock market and the Strait of Hormuz.
But I haven't heard much at all from Iranians inside Iran.
What are they seeing and thinking and doing and talking about?
For the last few weeks, we've been working with two journalists in the United States, Fatima Jamalpour and Roxana Saberi, to collect voice memos from inside Iran.
So many people sent messages, even though it was difficult and dangerous for them to get these messages out.
But people wanted to be heard.
I have not heard anything like these from Inside Iran.
I guess that's part of the point of an internet blackout.
So that's what I want to share with you.
Today's show, we hear from people inside Iran where war is only part of what's going on for them.
That's coming up.
Stay with us.
It's This American Life.
Today's episode, Blackout.
Other places have had their internet cut off during a war.
Iran is not the first.
But this isn't something that's being imposed on the country from the outside.
It's being done by the leadership of the country to its own citizens while they're being attacked, in this case, by us, the United States, and Israel.
Listening to these messages that people sent us, you really get the feeling for how total a blackout is.
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