leave it there.

Thanks very much for joining us again.

>> Have a good day.

>> A UW-Madison School of Journalism PhD student is back home living just outside Tehran.

Each day brings fear and uncertainty for Tahereh Rahimi, who does not support the war, nor does she support the regime.

She sees her country and people living there being destroyed.

Communications are mostly down in the country, so we sent her questions to learn firsthand what it's like right now.

Here's a sampling of what she said.

>> I used to think that I am, that I was brave.

I think that's not true anymore.

About about me.

I know that it's totally fine to be scared, but I think we're really changes you depending on what type of missiles they are using, you can feel the shake.

That part is the scariest part.

If I want to describe it to you.

You know, in the spring when the lightning hits and it sounds like the sky is being ripped apart, when you lay down on the ground, you can feel it like the same, you know, ripping apart, feeling inside there.

I remember one night, the middle of the war, it was 830 or 9 p.m.

and it was raining, and we heard the sound of the fighter jets.

And it was not just one, it was a group of them just passing over our head.

And at the same time, we could hear the the explosions and also the shake.

I remember like I was thinking, why doesn't finish?

Why when, when the end is gonna come.

It is like constant torture.

You.

You are literally just waiting for something to happen to you or your loved ones.

You know you are waiting for the bomb to hit or the roof comes down or the windows to shatter.

After the jets pass over.

Obviously you feel happy that okay, I I'm safe.

My family is safe, I am safe.

But at the same time, you know that the heat they hit somewhere else, they killed other people.

You know, you feel happy at the same time that you feel guilty.

Why you are happy?

The eighth night of the attack, when Israel bombed three oil depots in Tehran and 1 in Karaj, close to where I live.

Tehran was covered under Black smoke for hours.

And then it was Black rain coming down.

It was.

It was raining Black.

You can just imagine how this can influence impact people's health, especially older people, and how it's gonna leave, you know, lasting damage and people's health and water and so on.

Us and Israeli have already destroyed my country.

More than 2000 people are killed.

I don't like just to mention numbers, but the numbers are real.

These people are blood and flesh and they are.

They are not just characters in a computer game.

More than 2000 people are killed.

Over 26,000 people are wounded.

They are literally changing my country to another Gaza where people are deeply suffering.

If they.

They have not gone already dead already.

What do you think about how this war is being covered in the media?

As you know, the internet is still down after almost 50 days.

Netanyahu was the one dragged us in this war, but I didn't see a lot of coverage.

The part that the the Israeli has done is sort of whitewashed or softened in the news media, and people just don't talk about this.

It might be the result of what I saw in how they were represented in, in domestic news media.

But it was very disappointing that like, what they were talking was just about the oil price.

Oh, the Brant oil is like now it's $0.50 higher than yesterday.

As if like it was the war was reduced to just the oil price, you know, deleting the human side of the war.

So my biggest fear is that they don't like Iranian government.

And the US don't come to an agreement.

My biggest fear is that that like somehow the ceasefire ends and they resume the war.

So it means all this nightmare is gonna happen again.

I hope that this war ends forever and