‘I should not have wished for war’: six ordinary Iranians on how the US-Israel conflict has changed them

In Tehran, the Guardian spoke to people about how war is transforming their feelings toward the regime and their country’s future Behzad has a master’s degree in the humanities and lives with his partner in a rented flat in central Tehran. He says he didn’t take part in January’s anti-government protests , but only because the call had come from Pahlavi [the exiled son of Iran’s former monarch] and he didn’t want their protest appropriated in his name. He says he knew people shot and killed by the regime.