Unnamed Iranian Student (Kay)

Iran was nothing like it was three years ago.

The people's attitude, the people's words, I could clearly sense that no one is truly satisfied anymore.

The city felt like fire under ashes.

Not only because of economic problem or economic crisis, but also because of the suffocating atmosphere and the lack of civil freedoms.

When I went to a supermarket or hospital, bank, I've seen a conversation, I've heard a conversation that people talk about Iranian currency and why it's really low and it's getting worse and what's going to happen.

They didn't see any future upon them.

My friend is a nurse, and even though she has to work hard, like long shifts with her husband, and they had to sell their golds to be able to live in even a smaller apartment in downtown.

But they had to because they had no choice.

They told me we can't see any future upon us with this economic situation.

In the downtown of the Tehran, there is a big bazaar that we call Tehran Bazaar.

Protests started from there, and then following that, other parts of the city started to protest.

It was like, I don't know, dominoes spreading to all over the country.

It started at night, like, about 8 p.m.

People from every background, like, old, young, kids, our, like, neighbors, all of them, even with their kids, were outside.

The message was really clear.

Down to the government.

We don't want this government.

They were calling, like, this to homonymy.

And this type of like things to say, narrative to say in Iran, it was really like you have to pay like a high price to it.

Yeah, exactly.