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Tehran residents were going about their daily routines on Saturday, despite the overnight Israeli attacks that struck close to the Iranian capital. “That was not a real attack,” a 57-year-old saffron seller in a prosperous part of northern Tehran said as he sipped his tea. Mr Moussavi told of his 28 months of service in the Iranian military during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. “We do not fear a major war,” he said, adding with his eyes flashing: “Iran will in any event react.” Israel carried out “precise strikes” on military targets including missile production facilities, ground-to-air missile s…

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