At roughly 3:30am the first Israeli missiles rained down across the Iranian capital Tehran.
"Both my husband and I were thrown from our bed. The explosions didn’t stop. We had no idea what was happening," said Samira, a resident of the northern Tehran neighbourhood of Kamranieh.
The windows of the entire apartment had shattered and the chandelier had crashed to the floor.
"We got up from the ground in fear and realised the apartment across from ours had been bombed," she told Middle East Eye.
Samira - not her real name - lives directly opposite the residence of Ali Shamkhani, an advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, who was among the senior Iranian officials reportedly killed in Israeli air strikes in the early hours of Friday morning.
