NYTIMES (Abdi Latif Dahir and Emile Ducke) - Iran Journey Reveals Society’s Wartime Defiance and Hope
From the capital, Tehran, to the holy city of Mashhad, the Iran I saw was a nation of many layers: defiant but also weary, despairing but hopeful.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - Iran War Day 132: U.S. Bombs Iran For Second Night
State of the Union: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen sharply. The post Iran War Day 132: U.S. Bombs Iran For Second Night appeared first on The American Conservative .
The U.S. carried out a bombing campaign against Iran for the second consecutive night, with Iran retaliating with drones and ballistic missiles against American and U.S.-allied bases in the region, as the Iran War entered its 132nd day on Thursday. Although CENTCOM said that the U.S. strikes targeted “military” sites, the Financial Times reported that targets included civilian infrastructure, such as railroad bridges on the route to the holy city of Mashhad, where the funeral of assassinated former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is currently taking place. FT reported that passenger train services in Iran were disrupted on Thursday morning by the strikes and that electricity infrastructure in southeastern Iran was also hit,…Open
NPR (The Associated Press) - University students hold new protests in Iran around memorials for those killed
Iran's state news agency said students protested at five universities in the capital, Tehran, and one in the city of Mashhad on Sunday.