A widespread internet blackout, enforced by the regime, has made it difficult to connect with those inside Iran who have been grappling with the human consequences of the government’s crackdown. “The country has been plunged into silence,” Hadi wrote to me in January. “In a forced darkness, misinformation spreads easily, and people are left with fragments.” That silence was part of the reason he had reached out, why he felt the need to document what he was seeing.