Hannah Jaffe-Walt

Some of the work his team has done is for state TV.

He's sympathetic to the regime, including the blackouts policy.

The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the internet is shut off in Iran for security reasons while the country is under attack.

That idea makes sense to Omid.

At work, Omid is a manager.

At night in Tehran and throughout a lot of the country, regime supporters have been gathering in squares to chant in support of the Islamic Republic and wave flags.

Maru is in her 30s, lives outside Tehran.

She works as an English tutor online, but there's not a lot of that work these days, so she's been taking on extra hours at her dad's pharmacy.

She's there till nighttime.

She sees the rallies on her way home.

Every time I hear President Trump declare what Iranians want or what they should do or what he thinks should come next, and every time he tosses off a threat, I want to know, what is it like for Iranians to hear that?

Are they hearing that?

Another thing the blackout has erased or stifled.

For instance, what was it like for Iranians on the day that happened only a few weeks ago when President Trump posted on Truth Social about Iran, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

I don't want that to happen, but I probably will.

We got several voice memos about that day.

I'm going to play one from the doctor, Anushirvan, who treated patients during the January massacre.

Then Sara in Tehran, the woman who'd been blow-drying her hair in case U.S.

strikes knocked out Iranian power plants.

Trump had set a deadline for Iran that day to open the Strait of Hormuz.