A Letter from Tehran, Sent from Berlin

Following the Israeli strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus and Iran’s retaliatory reaction, fears of a full-scale conflict in the Middle East rose. A personal contextualisation. Dude, they struck back!” is a notification on my phone from a close friend when I come back home from a Berlin evening on 13th April. I immediately open a flight radar website and notice the sky of Jordan is cleared while a US Air Force stratotanker is seen cruising over the Iraqi sky. Iranian news channels by then were already filled with propaganda about the operation “True Promise,” attacking Israel in retaliation …