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

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

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

"In a state that has spent 47 years boasting astir its subject spot to nan world, location are nary informing sirens, fto unsocial shelters. They themselves perceive nan sound of airplanes and drones recognize nan [enemy airplanes] person travel into nan sky. They do not moreover person radar," Noori from nan superior metropolis of Tehran wrote.

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

To compensate for nan deficiency of explosive shelters and safe rooms successful residential housing, Noori said Iranian authorities designated 82 metro stations and 300 parking garages successful Tehran arsenic shelters for nan people.

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

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

Noori and nan different Iranians who communicated pinch Fox News Digital are utilizing their first names because of nan consequence of retaliation from nan regime’s sadistic information forces.

Faraz, who is from Tehran, said, "We are now successful a business wherever we person nary shelters, and we fearfulness for our lives. If we were astatine warfare pinch personification who would onslaught residential buildings, truthful galore of nan regular citizens would person died. We do not moreover person informing sirens."

Lisa Daftari, an Iran expert, told Fox News Digital, "What we're seeing connected nan crushed successful Tehran is simply a metropolis operating without immoderate general civilian defense infrastructure. Families pinch children aliases aged relatives person mostly evacuated to nan countryside aliases nan 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, nan editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, added, "There are nary explosive shelters. There are nary informing sirens. The Iranian group person been fixed nary general strategy to protect themselves. What you are seeing connected your screens — crowds successful nan streets — are not spontaneous shows of support. Those are Basij militia connected megaphones, ordering group retired of their homes, truthful nan 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 nan country’s population, according to ineligible experts.

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

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

Avi Bell, a professor astatine nan 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 aliases rocket motorboat sites for immoderate logic different than quality shielding. On subject grounds, it would make acold much consciousness for nan motorboat sites not to beryllium adjacent civilian areas."

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

Manouchehr, who is besides from Tehran, wrote, "I americium messaging you nether very difficult conditions, pinch an highly anemic internet. I had to salary a very precocious value for a VPN conscionable to nonstop you this message. The information business is not bully astatine all. These clerics person spent our money for years connected missiles and drones, and connected backing Hamas and Hezbollah. They person not moreover built a azygous shelter for us, yet for 47 years, they person been threatening nan 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 nan past day, a diminution has been tracked successful reserved telecoms web infrastructure, further reducing VPN readiness and sending immoderate whitelisted users and NIN services offline."

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

Manouchehr added, "We are grateful to President Trump for not bombing residential areas. I inquire you to please show them [the U.S. Government] not to state a ceasefire. Otherwise, these hyenas will not time off immoderate of nan Iranian group alive, and they will return revenge for Israel’s and America’s attacks by targeting nan Iranian people."

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

Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American activistic and quality authorities master connected nan business successful Iran, told Fox News Digital, "The Islamic authorities of Iran shows nary worth for quality life and treats nan Iranian group not arsenic citizens, but arsenic a conquered organization and slaves. It has spent decades building tunnels for missiles and drones, yet it has near 90 cardinal group without sirens, shelters aliases immoderate strategy to pass civilians of danger. At nan aforesaid time, nan net is mostly unopen down, and telephone lines are restricted, leaving group incapable to person news aliases moreover interaction their families.

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Iranian women collecting money for nan warfare effort extracurricular an aerial ambush shelter successful Tehran during nan Iran-Iraq War May 11, 1988.  (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

"What makes this moreover much shocking is that, during nan Iran–Iraq warfare successful nan 1980s, erstwhile I lived successful Iran, location were astatine slightest informing sirens. People had a fewer minutes to move distant from windows aliases find immoderate protection. Today, moreover 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 nan 1980s.

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

A group of men inspect nan ruins of a constabulary position struck amid nan U.S.–Israeli subject run successful Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

According to nan 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 vulnerable determination risks nan lives of each civilians successful Iran since locations utilized for subject purposes suffer protected position and could go morganatic subject targets nether world 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 very strict information control. There are perfectly nary informing systems aliases alerts, and if immoderate threat occurs, group person obscurity to return shelter because, overall, nan lives of nan Iranian group person nary worth for this government."

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

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