Mary Louise Kelly

The fact that they could respond, they are on the Internet, or at least were at that hour.

They have access to social media if they're behind a VPN.

Our colleague and peers, Arzu Razvani, has also been in contact with people in Iran, among them a 30-something-year-old who we are identifying as V. V lives in Tehran, gave only his first initial because of fear of retribution.

He told Arzu he was settling into work when these attacks started.

Our zoo also reached a 22-year-old college student who requested complete anonymity.

She woke up to the sound of explosions.

She says this is a day she's long hoped for.

So she's saying there and I quote, I am ready to be killed by a bomb if it means the certain death of even a few of our regime officials.

So a little bit of reaction there from inside Iran.

Daniel, walk us through the stakes for the rest of the region.

We mentioned Iran's response, lobbying missiles.

If you look at a map of the Middle East, it's lit up with places that Iran fired missiles at today.

And then aside from all the military activity, the street of Hormuz has been closed.

Explain what that is, what that means in the region.

Greg, quick last word from you.

That is NPR National Security Correspondent Greg Myrie and NPR International Correspondent Daniel Estrin in Tel Aviv, two of the many NPR reporters who have been at it all day today.

Thanks to you both.

This episode was produced by Erica Ryan, Karen Zamora, and Kai McNamee with audio engineering by Neil Tiewald.

It was edited by Courtney Dorning and Andrew Sussman.

Our executive producer is Sammy Yannickin.