Some residents direct their ire at Netanyahu and expect Khamenei’s regime will be weakened further, but it will not be toppled
It started with her neighbour frantically knocking on her front door, panicking at the sound of explosions. Then she taped her windows to prevent them from shattering and packed an emergency backpack.
By Tuesday, Neda was on a gridlocked highway, joining thousands of other Tehranis trying to flee the Iranian capital. Their aim was to find somewhere more remote where they would not be near any of the hundreds of sites that Israel might target.
“My biggest fear is the uncertainty and the ambiguity of it all,” Neda, 35, said by social media chat from a suburb on the outskirts of northern Tehran. “Will this go on for a week or for eight years? Will we have to keep on improvising life one day at a time?”
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