A Tehran resident speaking to the BBC says the day-to-day reality of war has shifted life in the capital from political debate to what he described as “basic survival.”

Speaking via a relative, he told BBC Your Voice that ordinary life is now dominated by immediate needs: “Everyday life becomes about safety, food, communication and protecting family.”

He added that arguments and discussions that mattered before the war “fade in importance when people are under attack,” and said some hopes that the conflict might bring political change have been overtaken by the human cost once “missiles start hitting their streets and homes are destroyed.”

“War forces people to confront the human cost,” he said, describing uncertainty as one of the hardest parts: when people don’t know what tomorrow brings, “even the most basic daily tasks become extremely difficult.”