Iran war timeline: civilians bear brunt of US and Israel’s weeks-long campaign

The Iranian Red Crescent Society said more than 80,000 civilian sites had been hit in the country since the war began. Photograph: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

It is approaching a month since the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran, arguing they were acting to remove the country’s nuclear threat, destroy its ballistic missile capability and free the Iranian people of a tyrannical theocratic regime. Yet it is Iranian civilians who are increasingly bearing the brunt of Israel and US’s campaign. Here’s what we know about the impact war is having on the Iranian public.

The start of the war