“We, the Jews of Iran, are Iranian Jews, not “Jewish Iranians”. We have a 2,500 year old history. Our path is separated from the Zionists”

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal visits a neighborhood in Eastern Tehran, Iran bombarded with 8 missiles launched by the US-Israeli coalition on March 9, 2026. There, he met local residents who witnessed what they described as a major atrocity in which dozens of civilians were killed, and many wounded, while scores of families were left homeless.

Above the door of an apartment building which was completely destroyed by the bombing, a local painted the phrase, “Proof of American crimes.”