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Ynet Source from Tehran Killed by Security Forces
(Ynet News) Zeev Avrahami - I asked an Iranian exile friend to connect me with activists inside Tehran who could tell us about life in Iran. We've spoken to Azita ten times. I asked her why she agreed to speak to someone from "the Little Satan." She said, "I want the world to know about the other Iranians. We want people to know what we're going through. We don't want the world to say it didn't know." We spoke a lot during the summer war. "What kind of crazy reality is this," she said, "when war gives us hope - when the planes bombing overhead make us feel more alive?" Her greatest fear was betrayal by the West - its unwillingness to join their fight against the tyrants ruling their lives. She told me how more and more people were joining the resistance, how music was being played in the streets, how women were walking without hijabs. She described an unbearable economic reality, a daily struggle to afford life's basic necessities and a total lack of faith in a regime that had failed to protect its people - even its top commanders and scientists - from Israeli strikes. And yet, she was full of hope. The despair had vanished. "We've lost our fear of death," she told me. On Tuesday I received the news. Security forces had shot her dead in the street.