The New York Times reported that more Iranians are expressing concern about a possible war with Israel, even as government officials say they are determined not to back down.
The newspaper interviewed more than a dozen Iranians from different cities and different political persuasions who say they oppose war with Israel or the United States. They fear the war will further damage their already struggling economy.
“No one I know is prepared for a possible war,” Mahdiyeh, a 41-year-old engineer from Tehran, told the newspaper. “We are shocked. We do not and do not want to have a normal life. enter an era of war.”
The phrase “NO TO WAR” was widely circulated on Iranian social media, along with questions: “What bunkers will you use to protect people? How will you rebuild damaged infrastructure? There is nothing good in war, don’t destroy Iran.” “.
“We had to give [Израилю] in the face, otherwise I would have continued moving forward,” Hamidreza Jalaypour, a renowned sociologist, said on the Clubhouse app website. But “if there is a war, they will impose it on us,” he added.
Jalaipour still predicts that Iranians will rally around their flag if war breaks out.
“Most of us are not happy with the interference of the Islamic Republic in the region and its so-called representatives. People do not want their national resources to be wasted abroad,” said Makhan, a 50-year-old doctor from the north of the country. . city of Rasht, he told the newspaper these days, both for me and for most of my friends and acquaintances, there is fear and anxiety before the war.
Cursor previously wrote that during an Iranian attack on Israel, a British plane was almost attacked.
