The Daily How Iranians See the War
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Apr 21, 2026 
Clare Toeniskoetter, a senior producer and reporter, shares conversations with Iranians navigating war, fear, and political fracture. One voice turns from secret dissent to backing outside force after crushed protests. Another, shaped by revolutionary roots, rejects attacks and chooses quiet resistance through art, daily defiance, and slow change.
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Iran’s Blackout Silenced Public Reaction
- Iran’s near-total internet shutdown made the war hard to document and showed why few Iranians could answer Donald Trump’s call to rise up.
- Clare Toeniskoetter sent nearly 100 messages into Tehran and was trying to reach the 1% with VPNs or Starlink.
Why Trump’s Uprising Call Fell Flat
- Many anti-regime Iranians did not protest during the war because bombs and security forces made the streets lethal, not because they supported the government.
- Sources described a friend’s daughter shot on the street and a neighbor killed at work by an airstrike.
C’s Doubts Began In Mosque And School
- C grew up hearing death-to-America chants in mosques and schools, then quietly concluded the regime’s worldview was false.
- At 13, he spray-painted death to Khamenei on a neighborhood wall to prove dissenters were not alone.