Emily Feng Iranians clear the debris from damaged homes following a military strike in Tehran on March 15. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption A total telecommunications blackout in Iran means most internet and phone lines remain cut, ever since mass anti-government demonstrations broke out last December. Yet NPR has continued to receive some messages from inside Iran. In them, Iranians describe their fear but also defiance, more than two weeks into a joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran. "The Islamic Republic, which killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Syria, killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of Iranians in the most brutal way after all these years, and which now wants to have nuclear weapons: we, the Iranian people, who have lived with them for half a century, know how ridiculous their claim to be peaceful was," said one woman in a series of voice notes to NPR on March 16, explaining why she was angered by images of some Iranians in the diaspora protesting…