‘We’ll end up with a ruined country’: Iranians react to bridge strikepublished at 05:47 BST
Footage shows smoke rising from Karaj bridge
It’s still very difficult to contact people inside Iran amid the internet outage, but some have managed to connect using satellite internet such as Starlink and other methods, though it comes at a high cost. Using or possessing Starlink can lead to up to two years in prison.
All of those that I speak to inside Iran are against the current establishment.
I asked a woman in her 20s in Tehran how she feels about the attack on a bridge in Karaj. She started crying midway through the voice message.
“I feel helpless. [Trump] posts shamelessly about attacking our bridge. I don’t know how much further this is going to go. Why is no one standing up to him? He’s really taking us back to the Stone Age,” she said.
A Tehran resident in his 20s said: “We’ll end up with a ruined country. I am more disappointed and saddened that I am in the middle of a situation where I see Iran being destroyed and I can’t do anything. My country is being destroyed more and more every day.”
The strike on the bridge in Karaj has worried one local resident, a man in his 20s who says he’s “pro-war”.
“That bridge could have reduced the traffic in the city… it was destroyed in the second strike. This strike has got me worried. I don’t know why they hit it,” he said.
A woman in her 40s in Tehran, who is also pro-war, said: “I was really surprised that they hit a bridge… but I think they must have a reason for it.”
