Iranians on why they'll risk beatings and death to protest for change in their country:
USA TODAY interviewed protesters on an encrypted communications channel to hear directly about their demands and to understand how they have experienced the protests. Edited extracts of those interviews follow. For their safety, and to preserve anonymity, the last names of those interviewed have been withheld."I have been working for nine years and yet I haven’t been able to save any money even though I’m not a spender.
"After this incident my mind was full of questions: Should I stay and live in my country, or can I have a better life if I flee abroad? Why should I have to sacrifice the right to be with my parents, friends and family for a better life overseas? What would happen to the years of work I have done here, to what I’ve built with all the years of my youth!? Then again, here I can get killed by a random bullet, or just for my hair.
"By the Islamic Republic's standards, my friends and I are criminals because of doing things that are crimes in the world: partying, drinking, not wearing a headscarf, having partners without being married. Can you imagine not being able to eat or drink anything, even water, on the street for a month every year? That is how Ramadan is in Iran. Drinking water can get you arrested and whipped during that month. I am protesting because I've had enough.
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