How Iranians coped in the lead-up to war

On a snowy winter evening, almost two weeks into a nationwide internet shutdown that had cut millions of Iranians off from one another, I made my way through heavy traffic in Tehran, feeling worn down and quietly dispirited, to attend a dinner gathering organised through an app called Hamneshin, Persian for “compani…

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