When the BBC reached Bandar Abbas city, there were signs of life returning to normal.
Families have gone back home, shops have reopened and traffic once again fills the streets.
The market, for centuries the place where goods arrive by sea before making their way into southern Iran, is once again bustling.
Yet, nearby, the effects of war remain.
On Khushnoodi Street, behind Bandar Abbas’s main university, an apartment block is in ruins. It was hit on 26 March by an Israeli strike.
Half of the building is standing, while the other half has collapsed into a pile of concrete and twisted metal.
Exposed rooms where families once lived can be seen, and Iranian flags fly from the shattered façade.
The building also had some offices and Fatima, a 40-year-old business owner who worked there, was elsewhere at the time of the strike.
“I knew many of the families who lived here,” she said.
“There were mothers and children. They were asleep when the attack happened. Some survived, but three people were killed. One of them was a military officer who lived here with his family. But it wasn’t a military base.”