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

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

'These clerics have spent our money for years on missiles and drones, and on funding Hamas and Hezbollah. They have not even built a single shelter for us,' Tehran resident says

People walk past a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a corridor of a subway station in Tehran on Friday, March 13, 2026. The subways have been used as makeshift bomb shelters for Iranians. (Vahid Salemi/ AP Photo)

People walk past a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a corridor of a subway station in Tehran on Friday, March 13, 2026. The subways have been used as makeshift bomb shelters for Iranians. (Vahid Salemi/ AP Photo)

This picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows the site of a strike on a girls' school in Minab, in Iran's southern Hormozgan province, on Feb. 28, 2026. (Ali Najafi/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)

This picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows the site of a strike on a girls' school in Minab, in Iran's southern Hormozgan province, on Feb. 28, 2026. (Ali Najafi/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Policemen stand guard beside banners showing portraits of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution Square, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on March 14, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Policemen stand guard beside banners showing portraits of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution Square, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on March 14, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iranian women collecting money for the war effort outside an air raid shelter in Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq War, 11th May 1988. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

Iranian women collecting money for the war effort outside an air raid shelter in Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq War, 11th May 1988. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

A group of men inspect the ruins of a police station struck amid the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

A group of men inspect the ruins of a police station struck amid the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)