As tensions escalated, the warning was clear: key infrastructure could be targeted.
In response, something unusual happened across Iran. Civilians began gathering around power plants and bridges — not to protest, but to stand.
Hand in hand, they formed human chains around the very structures that kept their cities running.
Students. Workers. Families. No weapons. Just presence.
Officials had called on citizens to protect what they described as national lifelines. And people showed up.
Not because they could stop a strike. But because standing there meant something. A visible line between what can be destroyed — and what people are willing to stand in front of.
