At 5 a.m., a huge explosion rippled through central Tehran, the Iranian capital, which has borne the brunt of a US-Israeli bombing campaign since February 28.

The sound wasnt extremely loud, but it felt like an earthquake and shook the entire building, a woman in Tehran, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, told RFE/RLs Radio Farda on March 13.

The massive US-Israeli bombardment has targeted military, police, and intelligence sites, but also damaged or destroyed homes, hospitals, and oil depots serving the around 10 million people living in the city.

Around 1,300 civilians have been killed and some 3.2 million people internally displaced across the country of 90 million people since the war began, according to the UN and rights groups.