The first thing I look at each morning is not the headlines; it’s two check marks on my phone. They sit under the message I sent hours earlier to my family in Tehran. If they are blue, my shoulders drop. If they are gray, something in me tightens. My body prepares for a scenario my mind has not yet named. Maybe it is nothing. Maybe the internet is slow. Maybe they are asleep. Maybe it is something else. I refresh anyway.
This is how many of us in the Iranian diaspora live now. After the…

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