Samira says she never used to be political.
"I worked in sales in Iran. I sold cosmetics," she tells BBC Panorama. But that all changed the day her only child was shot dead in front of her by Iranian security forces. Sixteen-year-old Sevda was taking part in protests against Iran's repressive regime that engulfed the country earlier this year - before the US and Israel launched widespread air strikes which killed the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
And so she got out of Dodge PDQ!
Samira made a dramatic escape from Iran on foot, navigating dangerous mountainous terrain. She now lives abroad in hiding, describing herself as a "one-woman army fighting the regime".
Fighting it how, exactly?
"They'll bring me to the brink of death before they kill me, but finding me won't be easy… Return to normal life? There is no going back," she says.
Samira is among several Iranians the BBC has spoken to since the start of the year. Some, still inside the country, told Panorama they wanted to speak out despite the risks, saying they had found it difficult to hold on to hope once the mass protests had been brutally crushed.
At least those still in the country are truly risking their lives, just what exactly is the risk to stalwart Samira?
A video she made of herself fleeing makes clear her fury. "This crap government, these bastards, they've harassed me so much," she tells the camera as she marches along a mountain path bordered by a deep ravine.
The only real risk she seems to be taking is getting low bandwidth for her rants. And what's the betting she's sitting in a council flat somewhere in Europe?
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