How The Iranian Diaspora Collective Is Fighting To Amplify Voices On The Ground

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The way most people are able to access the internet is through VPN tools right now, so one of the things that have been really important for people in the diaspora is to be the voice of the people in Iran and kind of act as a megaphone.
54% : Recently, Vogue spoke to two founding members of the IDC - Mahdara and Mason - about their organisation's mission, how it feels for them to watch what's going on in Iran from the US, and the urgent need for more Western media to pay attention to Iranian dissent and strife.
50% : The Islamic Republic has taken great lengths to limit communication tools and access to communication for people in Iran, and that applies, of course, to the journalism practices of a huge portion of the people who have been detained.
48% : These are the circumstances that helped form the Iranian Diaspora Collective (IDC), a nonpartisan, multi-faith group that aims to spread accurate, on-the-ground information about what's currently going on in Iran.
45% : There is an immense cost and risk for anyone communicating with people outside of Iran, and because of that, I think it's even more important for us to actually listen to what is being said and to amplify and share and broaden the reach of their messages.
44% : The protests in Iran that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini earlier this year are still ongoing, but the initial interest from Western media has quietened somewhat in recent months, leaving protesting Iranians - and many across the Iranian diaspora who hope to amplify the protestors' message - at a loss for how to express to the world the severity of their suffering.
39% : Nicolette Mason: I think as much as this is a tactical war between the Islamic Republic and Iranians on the ground in Iran, it is even more so an information war.
37% : It's very hard to access the internet unless you're using a loophole like Starlink or a VPN service, which are not legal in Iran.
34% : The internal bias and internal trauma that we have from the West - this is what the Islamic Republic has been counting on to keep Iran isolated so that they can conduct their crimes against humanity, so that they can conduct their crimes against women, so they can continue to conduct their gender-based sexual crimes and oppress millions of people.

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