Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape
Thick black smoke was still rising in the sky, soot covered the streets and cars, balconies filled with black gunk, and the toxic air had filled the lungs as Tehran woke up after a night of airstrikes on the city’s oil depots on Sunday.
In messages and voice notes sent to the Guardian, people described the situation in their homes and on the streets, some calling it “apocalyptic”. With the sun blotted out, disoriented people in Iran’s capital had to turn on their lights to see through the gloom.
Four oil depots and a petroleum logistics site in and around Tehran were hit. Local authorities said six people were killed and 20 wounded at one of the sites.
Videos shared by citizen journalists showed massive flames over the Tehran sky overnight and smoke still billowing over the oil storage facilities. As rain poured down on the city of 10 million people on Sunday morning, authorities warned of toxic acid rain and many residents woke up with pain in their throat and eyes burning.
My heart goes out to the Iranian people. This whole thing is bullshit nobody should have to live through.
It worked! Nobody is talking about the Trump -Epstein files
I can’t imagine what it’s like to be an Iranian right now that was recently protesting their government at great personal risk… Only to find out their children are now being bombed by a sociopathic child rapist half a world away.
Fuck Trump. There was a path to do this right, and the stupid, evil fuck decided to take the worst possible approach instead so the dumbest people in the US forget that he’s in the Epstein files tens of thousands of times (at least).
The heart and soul of America is as black right now as the skies of Tehran.
