Sara

Like if they bomb your country's infrastructure, this might help you for what?

Maybe two extra days, but it gave me a good feeling psychologically at least.

Last night, I was awake until maybe 1230 or so, and there's a hallway in our house that has no windows around it, no glass, so...

That's where we sleep at night when they bomb.

We go there to take shelter.

And I was trying to sleep, but I was constantly checking the internet to see what was happening, like where they're saying what.

And I just had a feeling that there was going to be a ceasefire.

So I couldn't sleep, but I finally did fall asleep.

And then the next morning, my partner told me that there had been a ceasefire.

And to be honest, my feeling when I read that news was just very, very, very full of rage, especially the things that I read.

And I mean, I honestly don't know how much of it is propaganda and how much of it is reality, but

The things I read that Iran is even earning money from the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire because we, the people of Iran, know that that money earned from there is not going to be spent on us.

So we're just thinking that, well, we're just going to have a richer IRGC and they're going to commit crimes even more easily.

And I'm really, really afraid for the kids who are in prison, the kids who receive death sentences, because I know they're going to be persecuted terribly, executions are going to increase.

I think we're going to have even more severe crackdowns.

Probably any kind of social movement, if any form, which I honestly find unlikely after the January massacres, but they'll face an even greater massacre.

I feel like we're the main losers of this war, the people of Iran, because practically nothing has changed.

This American Life

I'm happy to be here.

Or was it always?