There’s an Information Void at the Heart of the Iran War
With Iran largely cut off from the global internet, the war is unfolding without the amateur videos that increasingly shape how the world sees conflict.
For the past three weeks, Shirin Razavian has been glued to her phone, carrying it from room to room. She checks Instagram. She flicks between mainstream and opposition Iranian news. She looks over her husband’s shoulder as he mines Telegram for updates. Pacing her London home, Razavian, a British-Iranian poet with a corporate day job, agonizes over what is happening in the country she left at the age of 18. Online, though, she experiences a disorientating quiet.