Checkpoints, air strikes and hope: a Tehran resident’s storyPeople shop for produce at a bazaar in Tehran on March 10, 2026. (Photo: AFP)Torn between hope and fear, a Tehran resident in her 30s agrees to share her thoughts with AFP about the ongoing war and daily life. But I heard from a friend that at one petrol station, they capped it at five litres. “No to a ceasefire!”, “War, war, until victory!”: we keep repeating these phrases among ourselves. But I have a friend in Tehran-Pars (a suburb northeast of Tehran), she takes sleeping pills because of the noise.

Source: Bangkok Post March 12, 2026 07:31 UTC