I did not know that seeing names slowly come online again would leave me submerged in tears. Voices returning, voices you want simply to lose yourself in hearing and reading.

It is said that when grief becomes so deep that it encompasses the whole soul, something within us changes profoundly—something that will bring the dark night of the soul to an end.

It is as though, somewhere in the depths of the heart, we all know that something is being born from pain, sorrow, mourning and collective trauma: a renewal that will change Iran forever.