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-U.S. 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.

But now Tehran and other Iranian cities have been plunged into a conflict of an intensity unseen in the country since the 1980s war against Saddam Hussein¡¯s Iraq.