Tehran residents are currently returning to their daily lives despite last night's Israeli strikes near the Iranian capital, DPA noted, quoted by BTA. “It was not a real attack,” said a 57-year-old saffron seller in northern Tehran, who identified himself as the Mousavi family, as he sipped his tea. He said he served 28 months in the Iranian army during the war with Iraq in the 1980s.
„We are not afraid of a big war. Iran will react in any situation," he added.
„I didn't notice the attack at all last night,” commented Kian, a 20-year-old architecture student. “I am not afraid of an Israeli attack because I know that their goals are military and not directed against the civilian population,”, he added.
Israel carried out “precision strikes” for military purposes, including factories for the production of missiles and anti-aircraft systems, the Israel Defense Forces announced earlier.
Tehran looks as usual this morning, with its usual traffic jams and delays, despite an expected Israeli retaliatory strike. Educational activity in schools continues, and air traffic has resumed.
The strikes are believed to be in response to Iran's Oct. 1 attack on Israel, when the Islamic Republic fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into the Jewish state.
A resident of an eastern suburb of Tehran told DPA that last night the windows of her home shook and she heard muffled explosions in the distance.
The Parchin military complex is located southeast of Tehran. "Maybe that's where they hit," she said, adding that she felt "stress" looking out the window.
Iranian state media downplayed the attacks, saying Israeli warplanes had not penetrated Iranian airspace and that damage was minimal.
Observers accept that this may be an indication that the Iranian leadership wants representatives of the current round of strikes to end.
Israel has heeded US advice not to bomb Iran's oil sector or nuclear facilities, an analyst with close ties to the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told DPA.
He recalled that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said earlier this month that Iran was not seeking escalation.