One man speaking to his mother in Iran from Australia said ‘I could hear her talking to someone else on the line’
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Iranian Australian Hussein* needed to hear his mother’s voice to know she was safe.
For almost a week, his mother and other relatives in Iran had been cut off as the country’s authoritarian regime imposed a communications blackout in an attempt to repress escalating anti-government protests.