The US and Israel’s bombing campaign on Iran has caused international chaos, unprecedented turmoil in previously safe areas of the Middle East and an economic shock that is only getting started as the rest of the world finds out just how crucial the Straits of Hormuz is to global supply chains.
But the people bearing the brunt of this war are Iranian, and a repressive regime imposing an internet blackout means that we have limited information about their response to this war.
Dr Mahya Ostovar is an Iranian political activist who has researched opposition movements in the country. An assistant professor at the University of Galway, she wrote for Saturday’s Irish Examiner about how Western anti-war movements are co-opting the Iranian war – and how they don’t speak for Iranian people.
'Anti-war' groups drown out voices of Iranians opposed to Islamic Republic regime