Beyond the military and diplomatic arenas, the US-Israeli campaign in Iran is carving fault lines through the most intimate of spaces: families. A powerful report from Ethnos captures the deeply personal toll under the headline “You’re no longer my sister.” Iranian citizens find themselves divided between regime loyalists and critics, between hardliners and those who question the conflict’s logic. The war isn’t just destroying infrastructure — it is unravelling the social fabric.
Supporters of the Iranian establishment and opponents of the regime increasingly find themselves unable to share a dinner table, let alone a political conversation. In a pattern familiar from other prolonged conflicts — from Iraq to Syria to Ukraine — war has become a loyalty test that fractures friendships and severs family bonds.
