With daily attacks shaking the city, schools shuttered for days and many shops closed, Tehran residents are trying to adapt to wartime conditions under an Israeli-US assault seeking to determine the future of the Islamic republic.
Normal routine has been absent for some time in the teeming mega-city of millions of people, ever since the January protests against the clerical leadership.
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