How Iran’s Internet Blackout Is Crippling Its Economy, and the Fight Over Fruit-Flavored Vapes

伊朗互联网封锁如何摧毁其经济,以及关于果味电子烟的争议

The Headlines

2026-05-12

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  • I'm Tracy Mumford.

  • Today's Tuesday, May 12th.

  • Here's what we're covering.

  • I've been hearing from a lot of Iranians over the past month or so.

  • And I think for those who at one point supported some kind of military action, whether by the U.S.

  • Or by Israel, because they opposed the government and wanted to see the government fall,

  • there 's been a lot of despondency at sort of what the last couple months have brought to Iran.

  • They have come to the conclusion that military action has only kind of made their situation worse inside Iran.

  • My colleague Yegana Torbati has been speaking with Iranians about what life is like on the ground there now.

  • She 's been able to reach people through text messages and voice memos in the brief windows

  • when they can get an internet connection.

  • She says people who oppose the regime say the government has only become more hardline and more entrenched since the war

  • began, and the conditions in their everyday lives are deteriorating.