Iran regime hides in bunkers as civilians left exposed without adequate bomb shelters or sirens

FIRST ON FOX: While officials of the U.S.-designated violent question Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) cower successful underground bunkers amid associated U.S.-Israeli subject strikes, mean Iranians are lambasting the clerical authorities for failing to physique capable weaponry shelters and supply aboriginal informing siren systems.

Iranians sent substance messages to Fox News Digital astir their efforts to unafraid cognition astir the advancement of the associated U.S.-Israel aerial warfare run against Islamic Republic subject sites and stock the theocratic state’s contempt for the civilian population.

"In a state that has spent 47 years boasting astir its subject spot to the world, determination are nary informing sirens, fto unsocial shelters. They themselves perceive the dependable of airplanes and drones recognize the [enemy airplanes] person travel into the sky. They bash not adjacent person radar," wrote Noori from the superior city, Tehran.

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People locomotion past a representation of the precocious Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successful a corridor of a subway presumption successful Tehran connected Friday, March 13, 2026. The subways person been utilized arsenic makeshift weaponry shelters for Iranians.  (Vahid Salemi/ AP Photo)

To compensate for the deficiency of weaponry shelters and harmless rooms successful residential housing, Noori said that Iranian authorities designated 82 metro stations and 300 parking garages successful Tehran arsenic shelters for the people.

"This is what they telephone shelter. Bear successful caput that first, determination are nary bathrooms successful the Metro stations, and also, during the 12-day war, erstwhile radical tried to spell there, they were locked."

Noori said "The families who unrecorded successful the residential compounds of the IRGC and the service are present surviving successful the metro stations retired of fear."

Noori and the different Iranians who communicated with Fox News Digital are utilizing their archetypal names due to the fact that of the hazard of retaliation from the regime’s brutal information forces.

Faraz, who is from Tehran, said, "We are present successful a concern wherever we person nary shelters, and we fearfulness for our lives. If we were astatine warfare with idiosyncratic who would onslaught residential buildings, truthful galore of the regular citizens would person died. We bash not adjacent person informing sirens."

Lisa Daftari, an Iran expert, told Fox News Digital, "What we're seeing connected the crushed successful Tehran is simply a metropolis operating without immoderate ceremonial civilian defence infrastructure. Families with children oregon aged relatives person mostly evacuated to the countryside oregon the Caspian coast. Those who stay are sheltering successful spot — moving distant from windows erstwhile they perceive explosions, retreating to underground parking structures successful flat buildings."

Daftari, the editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, added, "There are nary weaponry shelters. There are nary informing sirens. The Iranian radical person been fixed nary ceremonial strategy to support themselves. What you are seeing connected your screens — crowds successful the streets — are not spontaneous shows of support. Those are Basij militia connected megaphones, ordering radical retired of their homes, truthful the authorities tin manufacture images of a loyal population."

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s placement of subject installations successful highly packed civilian areas is endangering the country’s population, according to ineligible experts.

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This representation obtained from Iran's ISNA quality bureau shows the tract of a onslaught connected a girls' schoolhouse successful Minab, successful Iran's confederate Hormozgan province, connected Feb. 28, 2026. (Ali Najafi/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The Pentagon is presently investigating a subject aerial onslaught that reportedly deed an Iranian schoolhouse for girls successful the municipality of Minab connected February 28 — the commencement of the U.S. Operation Epic Fury against Iran’s regime. The aerial onslaught reportedly killed 175 people, astir of whom were children, astatine the Shajarah Tayyebeh simple school, according to Iran’s regime. The schoolhouse was located connected the aforesaid thoroughfare arsenic buildings utilized by the IRGC.

Avi Bell, a prof astatine the University of San Diego Law School and Bar Ilan University’s Faculty of Law, told Fox News Digital "It's highly improbable that heavy populated civilian areas are utilized arsenic drone onslaught sites oregon rocket motorboat sites for immoderate crushed different than quality shielding. On subject grounds, it would marque acold much consciousness for the motorboat sites not to beryllium adjacent civilian areas."

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Noori was captious of the regime: "They boast to the full world, but they unopen down water, electricity, aerial and the net for their ain people. Whatever wealth they received from Biden and Obama and from selling oil, they spent connected missiles, drones, Hamas, Hezbollah and gathering weapons."

Manouchehr, who is besides from Tehran, wrote: "I americium messaging you nether precise hard conditions, with an highly anemic internet. I had to wage a precise precocious terms for a VPN conscionable to nonstop you this message. The information concern is not bully astatine all. These clerics person spent our wealth for years connected missiles and drones, and connected backing Hamas and Hezbollah. They person not adjacent built a azygous structure for us, yet for 47 years, they person been threatening the world."

The VPN allows a fewer Iranians to circumvent Iran’s adjacent full communications shutdown. According to Netblocks connected Monday, "The net blackout successful Iran is entering its 17th time aft 384 hours. Over the past day, a diminution has been tracked successful reserved telecoms web infrastructure, further reducing VPN availability and sending immoderate whitelisted users and NIN services offline."

Policemen basal defender beside banners showing portraits of the precocious Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei astatine Enqelab-e-Eslami, oregon Islamic Revolution Square, successful downtown Tehran, Iran, connected March 14, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Manouchehr added, "We are grateful to President Trump for not bombing residential areas. I inquire you to delight archer them [the U.S. Government] not to state a ceasefire. Otherwise, these hyenas volition not permission immoderate of the Iranian radical alive, and they volition instrumentality revenge for Israel’s and America’s attacks by targeting the Iranian people."

Iranians person noted that aft the eight-year warfare betwixt Iraq and Iran (1980–1988) erstwhile Iraqi missiles were launched into the civilian assemblage successful Iran, the Ayatollahs could person built a weaponry structure system.

Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American activistic and quality rights adept connected the concern successful Iran, told Fox News Digital, "The Islamic authorities of Iran shows nary worth for quality beingness and treats the Iranian radical not arsenic citizens, but arsenic a conquered colonisation and slaves. It has spent decades gathering tunnels for missiles and drones, yet it has near 90 cardinal radical without sirens, shelters, oregon immoderate strategy to pass civilians of danger. At the aforesaid time, the net is mostly unopen down, and telephone lines are restricted, leaving radical incapable to person quality oregon adjacent interaction their families."

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Iranian women collecting wealth for the warfare effort extracurricular an aerial raid structure successful Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq War, 11th May 1988.  (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

She continued, "What makes this adjacent much shocking is that during the Iran–Iraq warfare successful the 1980s, erstwhile I lived successful Iran, determination were astatine slightest informing sirens. People had a fewer minutes to determination distant from windows oregon find immoderate protection. Today, adjacent that basal level of information nary longer exists."

Iran’s authorities imprisoned Bazargan successful its infamous Evin situation successful Tehran for her governmental dissident activities during the 1980s.

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced connected March 8 that it issued a "safety informing to civilians successful Iran… arsenic Iran’s violent authorities blatantly disregards the information of guiltless people."

A radical of men inspect the ruins of a constabulary presumption struck amid the U.S.–Israeli subject run successful Tehran, Iran, connected Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

According to the CENTCOM statement, "The Iranian authorities is utilizing heavy populated civilian areas to behaviour subject operations, including launching one-way onslaught drones and ballistic missiles. This unsafe determination risks the lives of each civilians successful Iran since locations utilized for subject purposes suffer protected presumption and could go morganatic subject targets nether planetary law. Iranian forces are utilizing crowded areas surrounded by civilians successful cities specified arsenic Dezful, Esfahan and Shiraz to motorboat onslaught drones and ballistic missiles."

Hossein, who lives successful Tehran, said, "Landline phones are besides nether precise strict information control. There are perfectly nary informing systems oregon alerts, and if immoderate information occurs, radical person obscurity to instrumentality structure because, overall, the lives of the Iranian radical person nary worth for this government."

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Ahmadreza Radan, commandant of Iran’s police, said implicit 80 radical had been arrested for spreading "disturbing content" online and officers are "ready to propulsion the trigger" if protests occur.

A spokesperson for Iran’s U.N. ngo refused to supply a remark for this article.