“Saturday night (March 7) started very violently, with terrifying sounds, the sky was completely illuminated. Strikes affect oil deposits.. Living conditions are already bad and this complicates things even more for us.
Everything was dark on Sunday morning in Tehran. I had never seen anything like it in my life. The air was dirty and it was raining in the patio of the house where I was staying. It was as if someone had poured oil on the floor; everything was covered in soot.
I don’t know how harmful it is to breathe, or how toxic the air was. But it is clearly chemical fume, and I tell myself that it must inevitably be harmful.
The only thing we can do about this is wear a mask. I went out once or twice to buy food and there was no one on the street.
The only stroke of luck we had was that afterwards a strong wind picked up and the rain helped purify the air.
Whether it’s Trump, Netanyahu or (US Defense Secretary) Pete Hegseth, I don’t understand what their plan is. What are they preparing? they talk in a very confusing way.
I would prefer that the bombs they drop were aimed at military bases. There are so many bases, so many checkpoints, so many barracks, instead of attacking our oil deposits.
Outside, security forces remain firmly stationed.
Some important objectives may have already been achieved, but all those centers of repression remain. They should start with those! They have identified them; They should attack them now. All of those facilities remain intact.
They tell us: ‘You must go out into the streets when we announce it.’ But the conditions for ordinary people to take to the streets do not exist because security forces are still firmly positioned outside.
Meanwhile, supporters of the regime mobilize every night, between 8 and 10 p.m., as if they had an appointment. And the repression machine continues to be deployed. I would say 70 percent is still there. In the main streets and squares you can see military vehicles that until now we had only seen in Hollywood movies. These vehicles and all this equipment are so intimidating that we don’t even dare approach them.
And then there are the checkpoints. In some of them they have even visited very young men. At one checkpoint I crossed, the guy standing there with a gun didn’t even have a mustache yet.
One of your browser extensions appears to be blocking the video player from loading. To view this content, you may need to disable it on this site.
Mojtaba Khamene’s appointment is ‘a hammer blow‘
Until Sunday afternoon, before Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed (as the new Supreme Leader), I was really hopeful. I told myself that we were finally going to be saved. We really needed outside intervention.
But since Sunday night, since it happened, I feel very bad. I say to myself, ‘What if the situation backfires? What happens if agreements are reached? What happens if conditions of peace are created, if concessions are made or something else?
The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei was the worst news we could have received during this war. It’s like a hammer blow when we already live in difficult conditions. It gave me a horrible feeling… the worst you can experience.
Read more
Read moreKhamenei replaces Khamenei: Iran challenges Trump and signals continuity
I hope that, as they (the American-Israeli coalition) say, they eliminate it quickly because the people, however divided they may be, have one thing in common: they want to end the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian people have been deceived many times. I hope that this time it is not like that and that the real objective is the freedom of the Iranians. Although it is a very idealistic way of thinking, I am aware of it.”
