I really do not understand the end game. Do they really think people are going to rise up against the government while being bombed? Did they think we coudl bomb away all the scret police?
I also never knew Tehran had 17 million people. Significantly larger than the Dallas and Houston metros combined.
The U.S.-Israeli air war on Iran is leaving a trail of destruction across the capital of Tehran, spreading a sense of dread and paranoia across a 1,000-year-old city that has seen war before but never anything like this.
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Residents described a tense, surreal atmosphere across the metropolis of 17 million people.
Missiles regularly streak across the sky. Explosions have become part of everyday life, rocking their homes.
Tehranis have taken to gathering on the rooftops of high-rise apartment buildings to watch airstrikes through the night, sharing food and drinks and filming explosions that light up the night sky.
“It’s like an absurd picnic,” one woman in Tehran said. “People sit, eat snacks and ask each other where the missile hit.”
There was a feeling of exhilaration when the bombing began as people who hated the Islamic regime began to believe it could finally be toppled. But those emotions are now mixed with a sense of anxiety and disbelief as the airstrikes continue without a foreseeable end.
The regime’s security forces are still out in force on the capital’s streets, often in plainclothes, masked, and blending in with civilians, residents said. The Basij has set up checkpoints where armed men search each vehicle’s trunk for satellite dishes, weapons and anything else suspicious, Tehran residents said.
