Iran commentary by top observers

[Barbara]

"Morning of Devastation in Gisha; When Homes Became Targets

Tehran's Gisha neighborhood turned this morning into the scene of one of the heaviest attacks against a residential area.

Where official statistics on martyrs and the injured have yet to be released, the sheer scale of the destruction offers a clear account of what transpired."

Gisha - pronounced Geesha - is the Teheran neighborhood where i stayed with a family for two months. It was a Dutch engineer and his Iranian wife and her relatives, who all later, after I left, departed Iran for Dubai. [Wonder whatever happened to them ? Maybe among the many expatriates fleeing from the Emirates in these recent days ?]

This is a typical example of classic Iranian hospitality.
When I arrived in Teheran after a month in the holy city of Mashhad, I went to a hotel, phoned that family, whom i had met in Mashhad.

Immediately they drove to the hotel and brought me to their apartment in Gisha, gave me a room to myself.

From that base, I could travel everywhere in Iran, with the help of their English language guide books to all the historical and archeological sites which i had come to Iran to see.

I should add that zero American tourists were allowed into Iran at that time. No one that I met remembered having seen an American since the 1979 Revolution ! This was 1984.

Bac to today's events, it's so evil that any residential areas are hit but it's obviously a deliberate policy to try to turn the Iranian people against their govt.

This diabolical strategy WILL NOT WORK !

https://x.com/haftsobh/status/2038952111593910398

[Barbara]

"A Persian Cat was rescued by the Lionhearted of the Iranian Red Crescent --

Despite the American bombing and the desire of Iranian monarchists."

https://x.com/iribnews_irib/status/2039000150715019554