Iranians take to the streets calling for a 'crushing response'
Iranians are demanding a swift response to Israel's attacks, while some have taken to Tehran's streets in protest.
Protestors held aloft images of Supreme Leader Khamenei and waved Iranian flags while chanting: “Death to Israel. Death to America."
"As an Iranian, I believe there must be a crushing response," Ahmad Moadi, a 62-year-old retiree told AFP. "How much longer are we going to live in fear?"
“You can't approach this bastard gently,” Abbas Ahmadi, a 52-year-old Tehran resident, told AFP, referring to Netanyahu. "Letting him scare women and children like this. We could end up like Gaza".
“Iran must destroy him. It must do something.”
Another Tehran resident, Ahmed Razaghi said it was "unacceptable" that Israel wanted to remove Iran's nuclear capacity.
"So many scientists have worked hard for this, we achieved it ourselves, and now they want to take it from us."
“There must be a crushing response.”
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