Even while enduring days of joint attacks between USA e Israelsome Iranians continue to fear that the country’s regime will survive this war.
“What scares people most is the continuity of the Islamic Republic,” a Tehran resident told CNN in a voice message. “The idea of sharing the same air as these people is what scares me the most.”
“Someone told me the other day that they didn’t hear the bombs and that they felt bad just thinking that these attacks could stop without anything changing,” he said. “What if they abandon us? Think about how bad the situation is, to the point where we all fear that they won’t protect us anymore.
Another Tehran resident described the city as “empty” after days of continuous shelling.
“A lot of people left Tehran, and a lot of people didn’t leave for their own reasons,” the woman said via text message. “There are no cars on the streets, no one on them.”
Regime in Iran
The regime brutally repressed anti-government protests earlier this year, killing thousands of people within days. For some Iranians, the war has rekindled hope that the regime, which came to power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, could fall.
For supporters of the regime, this has only intensified anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment, while others, who longed for regime change but never imagined it would occur through foreign intervention, remain divided.
