leave it there. Thanks very much for joining us again.
>> Have a good day. >> A UW-Madison School of
Journalism PhD student is back home living just
outside Tehran. Each day brings fear and uncertainty
for Tahereh Rahimi, who does not support the war,
nor does she support the regime. She sees her
country and people living there being destroyed.
Communications are mostly down in the country, so we
sent her questions to learn firsthand what it's like
right now. Here's a sampling of what she said.
>> I used to think that I am, that I was brave. I
think that's not true anymore. About about me. I
know that it's totally fine to be scared, but I think
we're really changes you depending on what type of
missiles they are using, you can feel the shake.
That part is the scariest part. If I want to describe
it to you. You know, in the spring when the lightning
hits and it sounds like the sky is being ripped apart,
when you lay down on the ground, you can feel it
like the same, you know, ripping apart, feeling
inside there. I remember one night, the middle of
the war, it was 830 or 9 p.m. and it was raining,
and we heard the sound of the fighter jets. And it
was not just one, it was a group of them just passing
over our head. And at the same time, we could hear
the the explosions and also the shake. I remember like
I was thinking, why doesn't finish? Why when, when the
end is gonna come. It is like constant torture. You.
You are literally just waiting for something to
happen to you or your loved ones. You know you are
waiting for the bomb to hit or the roof comes down or
the windows to shatter. After the jets pass over.
Obviously you feel happy that okay, I I'm safe. My
family is safe, I am safe. But at the same time, you
know that the heat they hit somewhere else, they killed
other people. You know, you feel happy at the same time
that you feel guilty. Why you are happy? The eighth
night of the attack, when Israel bombed three oil
depots in Tehran and 1 in Karaj, close to where I
live. Tehran was covered under Black smoke for hours.
And then it was Black rain coming down. It was. It was
raining Black. You can just imagine how this can
influence impact people's health, especially older
people, and how it's gonna leave, you know, lasting
damage and people's health and water and so on. Us and
Israeli have already destroyed my country. More
than 2000 people are killed. I don't like just to
mention numbers, but the numbers are real. These
people are blood and flesh and they are. They are not
just characters in a computer game. More than
2000 people are killed. Over 26,000 people are
wounded. They are literally changing my country to
another Gaza where people are deeply suffering. If
they. They have not gone already dead already. What
do you think about how this war is being covered in the
media? As you know, the internet is still down
after almost 50 days. Netanyahu was the one
dragged us in this war, but I didn't see a lot of
coverage. The part that the the Israeli has done is
sort of whitewashed or softened in the news media,
and people just don't talk about this. It might be the
result of what I saw in how they were represented in,
in domestic news media. But it was very disappointing
that like, what they were talking was just about the
oil price. Oh, the Brant oil is like now it's $0.50
higher than yesterday. As if like it was the war was
reduced to just the oil price, you know, deleting
the human side of the war. So my biggest fear is that
they don't like Iranian government. And the US
don't come to an agreement. My biggest fear is that
that like somehow the ceasefire ends and they
resume the war. So it means all this nightmare is gonna
happen again. I hope that this war ends forever and