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After days of tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran, for the civilians caught up in Israel’s bombing campaign, life is filled with uncertainty.
“This is war,” one 58-year-old father of two in the capital, Tehran, told CNN, adding, “no one really understands what that means.”
A week into the conflict, Iranians’ contact with the outside world is difficult, hampered by sporadic internet and phone coverage. Some – typically wealthy activists – have access to Starlink terminals providing independent internet access.
Speaking through voice recordings, messages and occasional calls, all the people interviewed asked CNN not…