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leave it there. Thanks very
much for joining us again.

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>> Have a good day.
>> A UW-Madison School of

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Journalism PhD student is
back home living just

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outside Tehran. Each day
brings fear and uncertainty

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for Tahereh Rahimi, who
does not support the war,

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nor does she support the
regime. She sees her

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country and people living
there being destroyed.

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Communications are mostly
down in the country, so we

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sent her questions to learn
firsthand what it's like

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right now. Here's a
sampling of what she said.

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>> I used to think that I
am, that I was brave. I

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think that's not true
anymore. About about me. I

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know that it's totally fine
to be scared, but I think

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we're really changes you
depending on what type of

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missiles they are using,
you can feel the shake.

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That part is the scariest
part. If I want to describe

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it to you. You know, in the
spring when the lightning

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hits and it sounds like the
sky is being ripped apart,

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when you lay down on the
ground, you can feel it

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like the same, you know,
ripping apart, feeling

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inside there. I remember
one night, the middle of

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the war, it was 830 or 9
p.m. and it was raining,

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and we heard the sound of
the fighter jets. And it

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was not just one, it was a
group of them just passing

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over our head. And at the
same time, we could hear

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the the explosions and also
the shake. I remember like

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I was thinking, why doesn't
finish? Why when, when the

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end is gonna come. It is
like constant torture. You.

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You are literally just
waiting for something to

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happen to you or your loved
ones. You know you are

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waiting for the bomb to hit
or the roof comes down or

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the windows to shatter.
After the jets pass over.

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Obviously you feel happy
that okay, I I'm safe. My

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family is safe, I am safe.
But at the same time, you

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know that the heat they hit
somewhere else, they killed

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other people. You know, you
feel happy at the same time

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that you feel guilty. Why
you are happy? The eighth

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night of the attack, when
Israel bombed three oil

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depots in Tehran and 1 in
Karaj, close to where I

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live. Tehran was covered
under Black smoke for hours.

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And then it was Black rain
coming down. It was. It was

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raining Black. You can just
imagine how this can

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influence impact people's
health, especially older

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people, and how it's gonna
leave, you know, lasting

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damage and people's health
and water and so on. Us and

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Israeli have already
destroyed my country. More

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than 2000 people are killed.
I don't like just to

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mention numbers, but the
numbers are real. These

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people are blood and flesh
and they are. They are not

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just characters in a
computer game. More than

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2000 people are killed.
Over 26,000 people are

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wounded. They are literally
changing my country to

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another Gaza where people
are deeply suffering. If

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they. They have not gone
already dead already. What

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do you think about how this
war is being covered in the

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media? As you know, the
internet is still down

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after almost 50 days.
Netanyahu was the one

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dragged us in this war, but
I didn't see a lot of

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coverage. The part that the
the Israeli has done is

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sort of whitewashed or
softened in the news media,

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and people just don't talk
about this. It might be the

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result of what I saw in how
they were represented in,

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in domestic news media. But
it was very disappointing

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that like, what they were
talking was just about the

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oil price. Oh, the Brant
oil is like now it's $0.50

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higher than yesterday. As
if like it was the war was

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reduced to just the oil
price, you know, deleting

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the human side of the war.
So my biggest fear is that

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they don't like Iranian
government. And the US

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don't come to an agreement.
My biggest fear is that

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that like somehow the
ceasefire ends and they

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resume the war. So it means
all this nightmare is gonna

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happen again. I hope that
this war ends forever and