Reporting from blacked-out Iran
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As the stream of memes from Iranian-government accounts shows, modern geopolitics is contested as much with narrative as it is with bombs. Before memes were a thing, the Iranian government fought its narrative war the old-fashioned way: tightly controlling what information became public knowledge in the first place. As a result, independent Iranian journalists can face long prison sentences, or even the death penalty, for working with outlets outside the country.
In an essay for The Continent, one Iranian journalist writes – under a pseudonym – to explain why that doesn’t stop them.
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