Iranian Woman Describes PTSD and Anxiety After Recent War with Israel

The man and young woman confronting Shirin were secret police. After being placed in the car, the young woman challenged Shirin for not wearing a headscarf, tried to force it on her, leading to a scuffle in which Shirin pulled the woman's hand down. Shirin was interrogated but released after signing a statement agreeing to public silence for two months on pain of solitary confinement.

Breaking the two-month public silence pledge would mean going straight to jail. Human Rights Watch stated that detainees, many of whom never should have been detained in the first place, are facing human rights violations, serious injury, and death. Activists estimate that more than 50,000 people have been arrested since the most recent anti-regime protests in January.

Many of those arrested are being held incommunicado. The repression has intensified since the war began in February. There are repeated and credible allegations of torture. " Shirin has lost her job because of her anti-regime stance.

Some of Shirin's work colleagues blamed her and other activists for the Israeli American attack on Iran. Shirin said she was very happy when the regime's military personnel were killed but fell apart when civilians were killed, especially when a half-finished newly built building was hit and 25 people died in it, including a one-year-old child who lost his mother.

The Iranian Red Crescent reports tens of thousands of calls to its helplines since the start of the conflict.

The World Health Organization reported attacks on 18 medical facilities. ', the patient starts crying, and that the hospital has only one psychologist who comes one day a week for a population of 26,000 people. Shirin has a suspended prison sentence which the secret police could invoke at any time.

"It is clear that the pressure and suppression against personal freedoms will intensify... But these hardships can be endured so that Iran remains standing. I told my mother: It's okay, I'll even accept prison, but let Iran remain," Shirin said.

The BBC reported these accounts from trusted sources inside Iran.