Jason Rezaian
speaker
511 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 May
Jason Rezaian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's designed to be consumed by young people here.
And in that way, it's not only more potentially effective, but also more radicalizing.
Look, in normal times, they can access almost everything through VPNs, things like Twitter and Facebook, TikTok, highly filtered.
So it takes some time and some doing to get online.
But Instagram, for example, has been mostly open online.
Since 2012, right?
And it's something that a lot of Iranian businesses rely on as a means to advertise because it's really the only space that they had.
Right now, with this internet blackout, almost all of that is shut off.
It's also a country that relies and has for at least a decade on Telegram, right?
So, you know, that's a way that people have been sharing information and communicating for over a decade.
That's been taken away from them.
You do have a handful of people who have what they call white SIM cards, right?
People who do have access.
And so anybody that you see posting from Iran right now,
You should be very skeptical about what they're saying because they are doing it with the approval or acceptance of the state.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you, over the last couple of months, there have been...
So a handful of instances where I'll get a DM from somebody in Iran or see somebody post a story and then immediately try and communicate with them and maybe have a few messages back and forth before it gets cut.
I remember, you know, very clearly in the wake of that 2009 election and the protests, the violence, and the internet shutdown that followed it, how disorienting that is.
Once you've, you know, become so accustomed to it.
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