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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-872583
Inside Iran after the 12-Day War
(Maariv-Jerusalem Post) Anouk Carter-Dorf - When Alireza Talakoubnejad, a young Iranian living in the U.S., returned home to Iran after its June war with Israel, he saw a country significantly changed. He wrote on X that mistrust of the government "has significantly exacerbated with the electricity & water shortages and then the experience of the war." He described nightly water outages, summer power cuts, and suffocating smog that blanketed major cities. Inflation has soared to unbearable heights. Basic goods have turned into luxuries. Many Iranians expressed a reluctant respect for Israel's calculated restraint. "As a pro-government friend described to me: 'Fighting Israel is not like fighting the Taliban, where they randomly shoot at different parts of the city. They had precise intelligence and weapons. Every single strike was intentional and had a purpose.'"