My Life In Iran Essay

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My Life as a Journalist in Iran Note: I am not listing my gender or name for safety reasons of being a journalist (out of fear). Ringer-Ringer-Ringer-Ringer my clocks goes off and I get out of bed for another day. I live in the neighboring city Karaj city and travel via the subway to Tehran. I am living in conditions close to poverty. I have always been interested in the news of Iran, that is why I became a journalist about a year ago. My life is stressful and hard. Living in Iran is not easy, sanctions are being slammed on our government affecting the people here and the government of Iran is not giving people freedom. As I get out of the bed and watch the news broadcast I remember everyday that all broadcasting in Iran is controlled by the state, reflecting ideology of the government. The only news I watched was the State-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting channel. A couple of my friends were journalist too. We used to write news together as a group, but now I am the only one left out of my friends. My journalism friends stopped journalizing because they were either intimidated, arbitrary arrested or in jail for a long sentence. Knowing that I could …show more content…

As a person who lives in the heart of Iran, I understand their daily problems. In jail I wrote an a secret book about the life in Iran. In this book, I wrote about how the everyday the people of Iran go out to the street in cities like Iran to protest against the government. This is where I realized that Iran officials are so nervous about the spreading of news that they find ways to arrest journalist like me writing about the truth and raising critical issue. Before I was put in jail, I witness a movements going on in Iran by the people. This movement is based on social media. From my experience, social media made it easier to share information as a journalist. That is why the people of Iran were using facebook

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