‘I should not have wished for war’: six ordinary Iranians on how the US-Israel conflict has changed them (opens in new tab)

In Tehran, the Guardian spoke to people about how war is transforming their feelings toward the regime and their country’s futureBehzad has a master’s degree in the humanities and lives with his partner in a rented flat in central Tehran. He says he didn’t take part in January’s anti-government protests, but only because the call had come from Pahlavi [the exiled son of Iran’s former monarch] and he didn’t want their protest appropriated in his name. He says he knew people shot and killed by ...