Amman, Jordan – Roxana, a young shop manager who was living alone in Tehran, was nervous during the war with Israel. His family lives outside the Iranian capital. Her lover was doing compulsory military service on an Iranian basis; In danger and potentially in danger. Even his psychiatrist ran away from bombing in Tehran. So she turned to chat.

“I asked, can you give me a specific time when it’s going to end?” 31 -year -old Rocks, says, arrives on the phone in Tehran. She did not want her full name to be used as she is afraid of being arrested by Iranian security services to talk to foreign media.

War started on 13 June with Israeli attacks against Iranian atomic Sites lasted for 12 daysIran retaliated by firing ballistic missiles on Israel. The two countries agreed on a ceasefire on Tuesday, when bombing American Iranian sites, inspired an Iranian attack on the US airport in Qatar.

She says it was the third or fourth day of the war and explosion as they were getting closer when Roxana tried the Artificial Intelligence App, she says.

“This gave me some information that was new to me, such as an attempt to advocate the Islamic Republic’s international community,” she says. “It said that it can take 10 or 12 days.”

Narges Keshavarznia, an internet access researcher FilterwatchA project of a US -based Digital Rights Organization Mian groupEven though Chatgpt is restricted in Iran, Iranians have enabled it to access through specific internet proxy.

A man stands on the roof of a building on June 16, seeing the horizon in Tehran. Iran’s state broadcaster was knocked into the air from an Israeli strike and exploded in Tehran that day.

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Iran was in the middle of the Internet blackout for hours in the day. For some reason, she says, her building had the best reach and when there were no Google and other search engines, the chatgate was accessible. When he asked if his building would be targeted or his loved ones would be killed, he had no good answer. But this tried to give her security advice, she says she also includes shelter in her apartment.

He consulted with the Artificial Intelligence App, so it often knew what his apartment looks, in place of furniture. When the war began, the chatup became his security advisor, told him where was the safest room in his house, and when he had a terror attack, it became his doctor.

“I used to speak a lot for this and know me,” she says. “Just telling me that ‘this is just a nervous attack and it will pass,” it helped me a lot, “she says.” I shared my concerns with my financial concerns and concerns. “

As useful and sympathetic as it was for Roxana, AI chat bots and artificially generated images There are also sources of misinformation And affect campaigns, especially during conflict.

Roxana says that it was always difficult to get information in Iran – many news sites are blocked and she says that Iran’s state media cannot be trusted.

“On their state media, they are trying to know you, everything is fine and it is very beautiful and it is as if we live in a garden or something,” she says. “And it makes me even more angry. Irani was like this ‘war is over’ on TV and we won from the second day.”

Constant Internet Blackouts made any information even more difficult. Iranian media told that Officials temporarily blocked the Internet Reach to maintain security during Israeli attacks.

Roxana says that she could hear the bomb at a distance when she talked to her doctor as she was running away from Tehran. The doctor told him that he should try not to think about the past or the future and he suggested that he had a magazine.

Most of the Iranians wrote about the missing bookstore and French pastries in a huge city dearly dear by Iranians, but in the west.

His day-to-day life before the war will also be amazing for many unfamiliar with Iran.

People pass through the old main market of Tehran in Iran, on Saturday night, October 19, 2024.

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She describes the concert with friends, staying out late and drinking alcohol. Although alcohol has been banned in the Islamic Republic and public drinking has not been tolerated, alcohol alcohol at home is widely available. His friends are creative, and in a country where a cleric is the supreme right, many of them are atheists. She covers the mass of her curly hair only when it is mainly to reach government offices, which covers the mandatory hair for women.

Year US restriction And its policies of the Iranian government have left Iran in financial crisis. A World bank study Two years ago it was found that 40 Iranians were in danger of falling into poverty. The country’s relatively young population – more than 60% of the age of 30 is under 30 years of age – is particularly difficult to be killed by high unemployment and unemployment.

Most of Roxana’s life and her friends are spent in finding out how to meet the end.

“I think we are forgotten people,” she says. While the rich in Iran are fine and the safety trap of the destitute, she says that people like him fall from the poor and cracks.

“We are trying to stand on our feet, no one is needed. But life is getting hard and hard,” she says. “Now when I get the bill, I just see them and I have to go to hell.” There is nothing that I can do about them. ,

She says that food in her apartment is from friends; A large bag of vegetables and rice was to report for duty by her lover before buying her.

Where once, not long ago, Roxana was studying German with the hope of improving her skills to produce online material and working, she says she has left all that.

She says, “We have a lot of pressure to take political side.” “But people like me just want a quiet, peaceful life.”

Iran says that more than 600 Iranians were killed during about two weeks of the war. The Israeli government says that 28 people were killed in Israel in the Iranian air strike.

Roxana says because she cannot sleep, she often plays computer games all night and then sleeps during the day. He has started playing Life is strangeA adventure game in which the main character can re -release time.

Roxana says she changed Life is strange After that Sims The account where he had created a virtual life, was hacked at the beginning of the war and he lost access.

She says, “The family I had created, all my life I made for these characters, it is lost.” “I can’t save the family I made there.”

Writing on social media after the ceasefire, she says that she and a group of friends gathered in her apartment in strange silence after Siren stopped. There were some relief and nervous laughter, but most of the sorrow was about what his life had happened.

She says that she did not ask for much.

“A little bread, a little happiness, a little dream, a little right, a little …” she writes, leaving the idea incomplete.

Simma Ghadirzadeh contributed reporting to Istanbul.