"Removal of eyes and testicles, amputations, bladder ruptures": two people bypassed the internet blockade in Iran and report "unbearable" events

Sometimes it's Starlink that helps, other times it's a VPN: the internet as we know it does not exist in Iran because it is not a free internet; the speed of messaging is also not as fast as here: we ask someone in Iran a question and the answers take hours or even more than a day to arrive. But they do arrive: “They control every aspect of our humanity – what we wear, how we think, even how we speak. Many of our natural rights have been violated to a point that it has become normal for us, we no longer consider them rights we deserve.” Two women bypassed the blockade in Iran, where “being a woman is the hardest thing in the world” and where being a protester is the second hardest. War is not desirable, they admit, but it is the last hope to overthrow the theocracy.