2024-10-06 09:26:03
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. Let us have a normal life. We do not want and do not want to 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 him [Израилю] in the face, otherwise he would have continued to move forward,” Hamidreza Jalaypour, a renowned sociologist, said on the Clubhouse app website. But “if there is a war, it will be forced on us,” he added.
Jalaipour still predicts that Iranians will rally around their flag if war does break out.
“Most of us are not happy about the interference of the Islamic Republic in the region and its so-called proxies. People don’t want their national resources to be wasted abroad,” Makhan, a 50-year-old doctor from the northern city of Rasht, told the newspaper. These days, both for me and for most of my friends and acquaintances, there is fear and anxiety before war.”
Cursor previously wrote that during an Iranian attack on Israel, a British plane almost came under attack.