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Most are pursuing master&#8217;s degrees and PhDs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For weeks, Narges couldn&#8217;t reach her family and friends back home in Iran. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate student worried about the worst-case scenario as she watched protests convulse her home country and the government brutally crack down on demonstrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These are ordinary people \u2013 artists, athletes, journalists,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The news we are hearing is like a horror movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 41,000 protesters have been arrested and 6,100 people have died, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. The group confirms each death with a network of activists on the ground in Iran. The numbers may grow as they continue verifying, but it&#8217;s been difficult to do so because the Iranian government shut down the internet and disrupted phone service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was only on Jan. 27 that Narges, a Ph.D. student in public health, heard from her sister. Her family was OK but some friends were not. A colleague of her brother&#8217;s, for example, was arrested at his workplace because he had written critically of the Islamic regime on social media. No one has heard from him since the arrest, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narges and others in the Iranian Student Association set up a makeshift memorial in the middle of UWM&#8217;s student union for a few hours during the first week of classes. Votive candles and roses surrounded pictures of victims. Instrumental Iranian music played from nearby speakers, adding to the funereal scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People in Iran don&#8217;t have a voice,&#8221; Narges said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the responsibility of Iranians living outside the country to be their voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranians are one of the largest international student population at UWM. Most are pursuing master&#8217;s degrees and PhDs. The students interviewed for this story requested the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel publish only their first names, fearing retribution for their families back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-some-students-living-two-lives-as-protests-rock-iran\">Some students living two lives as protests rock Iran<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrations began in late December over high inflation and economic grievances but have grown into a nationwide movement to end the Islamic Republic system of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The citizen uprising poses the most serious threats to the Islamic regime in years,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/28\/world\/middleeast\/iran-protester-deaths.html\">according to the New York Times.<\/a>&nbsp;The Iranian government and its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have blamed &#8220;terrorist&#8221; teams tied to Israel and the U.S. for infiltrating the protests and stoking more violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian students in Milwaukee are living two lives, caught between their coursework and a humanitarian crisis unfolding in their homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effort to connect with family amid a communications blackout has emotionally exhausted them. One student sent a list of names to a friend of friend, asking for them to check in on her loved ones&#8217; well-being. Maryam, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering, said her family borrowed a friend&#8217;s Starlink device to tell her they were safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/15\/technology\/iran-online-starlink.html\">smuggled thousands of the Starlink satellite internet devices<\/a>&nbsp;into the country as a way to bypass the government and communicate with the outside world. But the system is available to just a sliver of the Iranian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maryam was relieved to hear her family members had survived. But others hadn&#8217;t fared as well. She said a friend of her father&#8217;s, a doctor, was arrested for treating injured protesters and was taken to a prison. 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