Money, power, exile: Inside an Iranian exile’s war on regime-linked wealth in Canada

Mira Nassiri began blogging at 15 using a fake name, Sarah Shams, to express her true thoughts freely. She adopted a pseudonym and a surrogate character to write about politics and the widening gap between what people were told and what they were living in Iran. Her blog became more direct over time, rejecting the idea that Iran's political system could be changed through elections. Nassiri's message was against the Islamic regime and its establishment, and she never voted in the country's elections.