My SIL is in Tehran. She managed to contact us and described US bombers the size of passenger planes dumping tonnes of ordinance at a time, over 20 of which landed simultaneously at one point. It appears there is no detection, radar or warning system left. Government orders on Saturday were for citizens to leave Tehran - obviously SIL hasn’t and neither have most people apparently, but I’m not sure whether they’d bother to “evacuate” prisons.
Obviously it’s a big place of 12 million people, but fuck me how terrifying must it be on the ground. I’m afraid (most of) my sympathy is with the Iranians who have no choice but to watch their beautiful country turned to rubble, rather than those who were just too naive and foolish to do their homework.
Nobody sensible mourns Khomeini, but the US and Israel are ensuring that the next generation of Islamist wingnut suicide bombers have plenty to be aggrieved about. What a mess.