An Iranian woman’s war diary: 'The hellish sounds have become normal'

A young Iranian woman in Karaj, near Tehran, describes the devastating impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran on ordinary people. She sends fully verified daily updates when she can get online. Here, in the third of a four-part series, she tells of listening to somewhere being bombed nine times in a row on the 12th day of the war

Two women and a child holding an Iranian flag walk toward the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque to attend Friday prayers in Tehran. Photo: AP/Vahid Salemi

Day eight

​Life these days feels like a tender, thin green sprout emerging in early spring; the sounds of fighter jets and explosions outside our walls are an absolute darkness — a brutal monster that disregards this green stalk and tears it out by the roots.