#Tag · Bonfire Dinteg Labs

Farzin is four and a half years old. He walks around on his tip toes and loves puzzles and shapes.

But like many other children diagnosed with autism, he struggles with sleep, tantrums and finds it hard to socialize.
#Iran #war

Tim Mak

@timkmak@journa.host replied · yesterday

Anahit*, an Armenian- #Iranian child-psychologist based in #Armenia, had been working with him and his parents for around two years.

“After working with him for a long time he started going to a preschool, made friends, and the improvement was really good,” Anahit explained.

Tim Mak

@timkmak@journa.host · 3 days ago

ALONG THE #IRANIAN-#ARMENIAN BORDER—Two weeks ago, on the third day of the war, 21-year-old Hedia, her sister, and parents packed their car in #Tehran and drove north.

Not to flee the country, and not to start a new life.

Just to wait.

Tim Mak

@timkmak@journa.host replied · 3 days ago

“I am not fleeing the country,” she said. “Just a short vacation in #Armenia.”

Tim Mak

@timkmak@journa.host · 3 days ago

Good morning to readers. #Oil prices have surpassed $103 per barrel (+43% compared to pre-war).

At the #Armenia- #Iran border cars move both ways — families fleeing bombs, others returning home. For Hedia's family the crossing became a place in between, neither home nor exile. https://www.iranwar.news/p/caught-in-limbo-on-the-border-of

Caught in limbo on the border of Iran

At Iran’s northern border, Armenian officials expected an exodus when the war began. Instead, some travelers are stopping in small towns on the Armenian side for a brief escape.