>>bothem+O5
Shameless plug: start with https://comaps.app/ . Recently I helped a woman find an address because she told me there's some problem with her internet connection.

I think having an offline map of at least the region you live in can come in handy. In fact, I carry an old phone with impressive battery life (Samsung Galaxy A10) and offline maps installed on it so I don't get lost.

>>curiou+J4
As another comment said, they shouldn't be ignored, but they also should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-casualty-counts-us-funde...

>>jeswin+d7
Lack of shock images, and lack of personnel for humanitarian orgs. Protests and killings are happening outside of the locations MSF is implanted, and even if we have stories from doctors prevented from helping shot protesters, we don't have videos (and in the last few years and especially the last two weeks, doctors finally understood no one cared if they were prevented to help, since it was acceptable in France and even in the US).

The only NGO looking for Iran exclusively is Iran Human Right (https://iranhr.net/en/) and depend on the UNHRC, which is not particularly media trained and not good at reacting (also, they lost US funding less than a year ago and are reorganizing as we speak).

In the end, it will be like Yemen or Sudan all over again: media hear of the massacre late, send journalists, journalists get refused, they send journalists to neighboring countries and infiltrate with local guide help, some journalist dies, and three month after the beginning of the trouble we will get images and information.

>>jeswin+d7
There's limited coverage of all global conflicts, certainly in American media, but quite likely in other Western media.

> What explains the silence from activists outside Iran on this particular issue?

What explains the silence from the media on all other conflicts. It's certainly not because lives are not being destroyed in Sudan [1] and Myanmar [2].

1. https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166738

2. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1166004

>>pydry+ea
There are reports from Iranians and admissions from the US that they had people inside the protests to cause chaos.

“The Iranian regime is in trouble. Bringing in mercenaries is its last best hope,” Mr Pompeo wrote on X. “Riots in dozens of cities and the Basij under siege — Mashhad, Tehran, Zahedan. Next stop: Baluchestan," he added. At least ten killed in Iran protests as authorities issue warnings to demonstrators"

“Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them."

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/01/03/mike-po...

>>behnam+mm
No, according to both Iranian government estimates and the US Department of State, around 99% of the population are Muslim.

[0] https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-r...

>>throwa+we
is isnt? there's a thread here that currently has 789 comments that isn't killed, and the previous two ICE deaths had comment threads even longer

>>46745047

>>behnam+Bm
Reza Pahlavi has also had recent interviews with CBS [1], the Economist [2], and CNN [3] (all within the last 30 days). So how is the existence of Reza Pahlavi interviews on Fox evidence that conservative media is covering this issue more than liberal media?

On the topic of Politicians, Democratic congressmen like Dave Min and Jim Hines have also spoken in favor of US intervention in Iran.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-exiled-iranian-...

[2] https://youtu.be/jk6wfvje8Zo

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/world/video/iran-united-state...

>>t-3+QD
Multiple murders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Capital_Jewish_Museum_sho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Boulder_fire_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Paul_Kessler

>>bothem+O5
definitely not what you have in mind here, but at least something going a different route: https://offbridge.net

of course nothing that would help iranians right now. even if, the numbers would be blocked quickly i guess. but also there doesnt seem to be features that would help in such a serious situation

>>jaunty+vF
> A million years ago when I was in highschool, teachers would make us show them that we cleared our TI-83 calculators.

Comparing high school to a dictatorship is one way to confirm that you have very little experience with the latter. You do understand that if something is causing issues to the regime, then regime will simply make it illegal? Illegal to use, to posses, to buy, etc. — not like specifics matter here.

> Generally just don't come here anymore, but with the US fascists now checking phones at borders, the idea of having low detectability digital "smuggling compartments" (digitally speaking) in our devices is becoming all too real. Some loopback filesystem that your phone can mount that has the rest of the phone, various systemd-sysext layers for bitchat.

Even then, that's just wishful thinking. Only GrapheneOS has something similar right now, duress PIN/password (which isn't exactly designed for cases like this, but still) [0]. It won't help you much in a dictatorship, the police isn't that dumb — you'll be subjecting yourself to physical harm by using it. They know that your phone isn't empty, and they don't need anything to prove it. For them gut feeling is enough, laws and human rights are irrelevant.

Also, let's be realistic, Apple isn't going to have something like that on iOS.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/features#duress