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For several nights this month, Nader Mohandesi stayed up till 2 am in his Bengaluru home watching television news about the war between Israel and his country, Iran. The 60-year-old surgeon was worried about his mother, who lives in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Throughout the war, Mohandesi used to send a WhatsApp message on his family group chat every morning and wait for it to get delivered. “We could not talk everyday because the internet connection in Iran was very weak,” he said. “It was really stressful.” Things were worse in Tehran, Iran’s capital. An Iranian artist who lives...