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‘We want change but not like this’: Iranians describe daily life under air attack
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“We don’t want this war. We want change, but not like this,” she says, adding: “We’re against the Islamic Republic, but we don’t want the monarchy back either.
“When people protested in January, it wasn’t because we supported Pahlavi,” she explains, referring to Reza Pahlavi, the US-based exiled son of Iran’s last shah, who has said he would be prepared to lead a transitional government for a new Iran if the Islamic Republic fell.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/iranians-daily-life-under-air-attack