Zahra, a 53-year-old Iranian woman, was jolted awake at around 3.30am on Friday by the deafening sound of explosions that shook her apartment in Tehran.
Initially disoriented, she wondered if it was just a thunderstorm. But as she stepped on to her balcony, a grim reality set in: neighbours in the western district of Chitgar were screaming and running out of their houses in panic.
“People rushed into the streets, men and women shouting, ‘Israel has attacked!’ They seemed to feel safer outside than inside their homes,” Zahra told the Financial Times, still in shock. “I couldn’t believe it. Are we really at war now?”
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