Holly Dagris

So once I think that the Islamic Republic felt that the negotiations for...

the Miranda of understanding we're going somewhere.

I got the sense that that's when they felt comfortable enough to lift the switch and turn the Internet back on.

And it also coincided with comments from President Mastropozhevsky.

But I think it was overall a decision made by

the Supreme National Security Council, because I think for them, they were alleging it was on the purpose of national security, but I would argue otherwise.

One of the things that I saw that stood out to me, someone said, hello from Iran's prison after three months.

We came from solitary confinement to the general ward.

Wow.

And I saw people...

start sharing stories, sharing things that they remember from the war or their anti-regime sentiment.

Some diaspora Iranians began to post like often humorously about what Iranians inside Iran missed.

So they used the hashtag when you weren't here.

And they started telling them, well, this happened and that happened.

And some of them were

taking jobs at the clerical establishment or at pro-war, anti-war Iranians.

But there was a lot of humor in that moment, but also a frustration of feeling like their rights were taken away because they were unable to access the outside world.

But there was also a real fear.

I remember...

That someone started saying maybe a week after the Internet went back online, then she lived in the West and she was saying her mom kept calling every hour.