Tehran residents describe heaviest airstrikes of the war — electricity cuts, neighborhoods shaking 30 minutes

AP reporting from inside Tehran on the overnight strike waves on Day 11: residents describe it as among the heaviest aerial bombardment of the entire war. One resident of western Tehran said his neighborhood was 'shaking for half an hour because of strikes around midnight.' Another said 'I didn't think I would survive the night.' A 27-year-old mother witnessed what she described as a residential building being struck. All sources spoke on condition of anonymity to prevent reprisals. The overnight strikes cut electricity in many Tehran neighborhoods — a sign of the scale and targeting of the IDF wave that hit energy and infrastructure in addition to IRGC military targets. Iranian state media claimed civilians were the main casualties in the overnight strikes. Those claims cannot be independently confirmed given the lack of independent journalists able to operate freely in Tehran during wartime. The AP reporting — from anonymous residents speaking by phone — is among the first ground-level civilian accounts of what IDF strikes have felt like from inside Iran's capital. The IDF described the strikes as targeting 'Iranian regime sites,' IRGC infrastructure, and the underground ballistic missile R&D complex at Imam Hossein University.