Ayatollah Khomeini’s bait-and-switch game in the early years of the Islamic regime turned many of the people against it. They’ve been fighting the revolution since.

Many residents of Tehran managed to get out of town when the U.S. and Israel attack began, but others who could not described living under bombardment.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to Washington, long planned, is now likely to be dominated by discussions of the attack, which Europeans did not take part in.