"The Iranian Jewish community always and forever condemns the inhumane acts of the Zionist regime, and there is no difference between the Jewish community of Iran and the wider Muslim community," stated Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, head of Tehran’s Jewish Association.

Experts warn only nuclear weapons can deliver the level of destruction the administration is promising in a single night.

In a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, Trump threatened, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen but it probably will.”

Faith leaders also condemned the administration’s “holy war” rhetoric to justify bombing of Iran.

Trump admits to sending weapons to anti-government protestors during the January demonstrations, but they ended up in the hands of “a certain group of people” instead.

According to Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Sunday, Trump told him in a phone interview that he had arranged for weapons to be sent to protestors through the Kurds, but the Kurds kept them instead.

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BT went to the site of the destruction a few days later and saw first responders and volunteers at work, cleaning up debris and handing out sweets and tea. University alumni were also present, whom we spoke to.

The bombing of the university follows the U.S.-Israeli strike on the home of Saeed Shamaqdari, IUST’s Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Shamaqdari was killed, alongside his two children.

According to Iranians, U.S.-Israeli attacks on universities and scientists is a way of targeting the country's development in the technical fields, which forms the basis of their defense and advanced missile program.

On March 19, residents of the neighborhood held a funeral for the victims: Karim’s parents Mahdi Hassan Al-Haj Hussein and Alya Al-Bouari, his brother Ghadi, and their neighbor, Gita Nabil Shams.

Israelis were banking on Trump's war fracturing Iranian society. University of Tehran professor @izadifoad explains why the exact opposite has happened.

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Iran has reported that at least 21 universities and 600 schools and education centers have been destroyed or damaged by US-Israeli strikes since the start of the war.

This is the first report of a U.S. fighter jet being downed in Iranian territory since the start of the war on Feb. 28.

Trita Parsi of @quincyinst discusses the likelihood of the U.S. and Israel driving us toward nuclear war.

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The Israeli Knesset approved the law on Monday, which stipulates that executions would be carried out by hanging, overseen by guards appointed by the Israeli Prison Service. The identities of those guards would remain secret, and they would be shielded from legal accountability.

TODAY: Riding bicycles, scooters and electric bikes, thousands of Cubans took part this Thursday in an anti-imperialist rally in Havana, in a show of unity against Trump’s attacks on the island. The rally was organized by the Union of Young Communists to commemorate the 64th anniversary of its founding.

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U.S. military veterans are conducting outreach campaigns across the country to let active duty soldiers know they have a right to refuse to serving in Trump's illegal war on Iran. This comes as the Pentagon weighs sending 10,000 more U.S. military personnel to West Asia.

U.S. casualties in the war are nearing 750 wounded or killed, despite Central Command evacuating soldiers from its bases in the region. On Wednesday, Iranian forces claimed they struck and killed 37 U.S. military officers in the UAE and Bahrain.

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World leaders are bracing their populations for the global energy shock brought on by Trump’s Iran war.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is threatening to take Iran “back to the Stone Age,” floating the seizure of oil infrastructure, Kharg Island, and even a military reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, all while claiming negotiations may be underway.

So what is actually happening inside Iran? Is Tehran looking for a way out, or preparing for a longer war? How is Iranian society responding to mounting destruction and civilian targeting? And what would any eventual settlement mean for Lebanon and the wider region?

To discuss all this, Rania Khalek is joined by Foad Izadi, Associate Professor of World Studies at the University of Tehran.

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