Saba (24), student, get up:
"Their weapon is to rape and sow fear."
Saba,
change from the roots to the leaves and branches
From the beginning of the protest I was very active.
Along with studying at the university, I had a small job, but it stopped because of the protest and I don't care: what I'm doing now is much more important than work.
On social media I used my account to update and convince my friends of the necessity of the revolution.
I distributed information leaflets in the city in this spirit.
At university I managed to be active for a month, and I almost got into trouble, although luckily they didn't get to me.
It seems to me that we managed to make the university officials afraid that the students could surprise every day - write on the walls, distribute leaflets or do other things.
Actually there were no demonstrations in the streets here, in Kom.
It is a very religious and very secure city.
There is no great social cohesion here, and most of the residents are also employed by the regime.
Those who tried to take to the streets were quickly arrested.
We also tried once or twice, but realized that within five minutes it would be stopped so we left before we got into trouble.
In the last few days there were two official executions of citizens who participated in the demonstrations in Iran, but I was not afraid even for a moment.
At the beginning of the demonstrations, the case of Nika Shakrami (16 years old who was arrested in Tehran and beaten to death) disturbed my mind greatly.
It was unbearable to think that their weapon was to rape and sow fear.
But this time, after the executions, I just gritted my teeth and was motivated to act.
I thought what I could do to take a big step, how to step up to fight and take revenge.
I don't care about the danger, the main thing is that this step will build something.
In general, judging by the mood of my friends and relatives, the continuation of the executions only increases the determination and strengthens the protest.
There is no fear in us!
We are also not impressed by the reformist statements, such as the abolition of the modesty police or the abolition of the hijab obligation.
Everyone knows that they are proposing these reforms out of fear, and the statements themselves are meant to calm spirits.
It won't be long before the situation will be back to normal, and maybe even worse.
We want the regime to change from the root to the branches to the leaves.
I believe that in a year Iran will be free, but we will still need time to be able to build and flourish it again.
Upheaval in Iran: the numbers,
Etna (28), shop owner, Kraj:
"Their weapon is to rape and sow fear."
Saba,
There is no more hope for reforms
I live in the city of Karaj where there were fewer demonstrations, something like five, but they were very large and were held in the exact area where Hadis Negfi and Serena Esmailzadeh were killed.
I participated in four of these five large demonstrations, and one of the moments that I remember the most took place on our avenue, which is in front of a base of the Basij, who marked with a green laser people who happened to pass by on the street and shot them with guns, and the ambulances that arrived at the scene were actually used for transportation to arrests.
Now the public executions have also arrived.
They can inspire fear, certainly.
But the truth is that this fear is no greater than the fear of being shot in the streets, being arrested inside the house or being killed by torture.
Just think of the man who let the protesters hide in a shelter in his house: they broke into his house in the middle of the night and shot him in the head.
Actually, the fear of these things is greater, but it does not paralyze the people this time.
Because it doesn't matter what happens: these protests will not stop and we will certainly continue them.
There is a chance that we will stop for a few days to prepare, but we are not supposed to give up, and the reason for this is that in the previous times we wanted there to be a revolution, but we also knew that there was no way to reach it.
This time almost all the Iranian people accepted this revolution, and our situation now is the situation of someone who is fighting an enemy that attacked his home and took over it.
This enemy must go, by any means possible.
These executions only increase the anger of the people and sharpen the necessity of change.
Basically everything they do, every person they kill, they increase him.
For this reason, one should not be moved by the statements of Khatami (who called to listen to the protesters) or by the talk of abolishing the modesty police.
They will never cancel it.
They just said something to test the reaction.
Since Rouhani, no one puts hope in the reformists.
Perhaps they were one of the reasons why past protests were extinguished.
Neither Khatami nor Mousavi - not one of them will be able to do anything to justify the regime's stay, which will try to stay through killing and murder, and in the meantime is just buying time.
How do I imagine Iran in the future?
I am 28 years old, I have a small clothing store and I am studying a master's degree in graphics.
But since in our country no one can work in his field normally, I had to work in a different profession.
So in a year I want Iran to have a new regime, and in three years I imagine that Iran will have better conditions, that it will attract investments and become one of the prominent centers of tourism in the world.
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