Iranians for life in Israeli attacks

“Stuck”. This is the word that most people who have talked to BBC use to describe life in Iran right now.

After three days of Israeli attacks, “everyone is trying to escape from Tehran in one way or another, a BBC News Persian resident said.

On Sunday, long tails were formed at gas stations throughout the city. Many people have tried to leave for distant areas, far from any possible Israeli goal, but they could not even leave the countryside due to heavy traffic.

“Tehran is not safe,” he said clearly, “a resident said. “We do not receive alarms or warnings from employees of Israeli attacks. We just hear the blasts and we hope that our place is not hit. But where can we go?

One person who managed to move from Tehran to another province said: “I do not think I have fully processed that I live in an active war zone and I’m not sure when I will get to acceptance.”

“This is not my war. I’m not rooting for both sides, I just want to survive with my family.”

As of Friday, Israel has hit Iran with its biggest wave of hits in years.

Israel’s strikes led to revenge from Iran, who began rocket attacks against Israel.

At least 10 people were killed in Israel, authorities said. Iranian media, citing the Ministry of Health, said 128 people were killed in Israeli attacks at noon on Saturday.

One Iranian told the BBC that she had failed to sleep for two nights: “I have experienced really difficult situations.”

She said the current situation reminded her of the bombing and walking shelters during the Iran-Iraq war since the 1980s when she was a child.

“The difference is that then, at least when an attack happened, we heard Air Raid’s siren or at least warnings before it happened. But now, during this attack or some air, there are no sirens or warnings.”

The younger people born after the war do not know what it was, said Ghoncheh Habibiazad on BBC News.

A woman in Tehran said she was thinking of leaving the city to escape from attacks.

“We all wanted to go to smaller cities or villages wherever we can go, but each of us has loved ones who cannot leave, and we think of them,” she said. “What we are experiencing is not fair to any of us, the people of Iran.”

“We are all trying to go through these days in fear, exhaustion and a lot of stress. It’s extremely difficult and painful.”

A resident in the capital said, “I can’t just leave Tehran. I can’t leave my elderly parents who can’t travel far and long and leave the city alone. I have to show up to work. What can I do now?”

The Internet is unstable, so it is very difficult to maintain contact with people inside the country.

Many living outside the country send messages to loved ones, hoping for an answer.

Some people have also received warnings from the Israeli military asking all Iranians to leave areas near military sites. People in Tehran seem to be the most worried about it.

“How do we need to know where it is a military site and where it is not?” One said.

Separately, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a message to the Iranians on the second day of the attacks said that “the time has come” to unite the Iranians, asserting themselves for your freedom. “

However, people in the country have so far chosen to stay safe and there is little evidence that Netanyahu’s call has resonated on the spot, said BBC News Daryoush Karimi Daryoush Karimi.

In Iran, which may be the most shocking people, was the destruction of residential buildings, even more than attacks on nuclear facilities and air bases, said BBC News Persian Pouyan Kalani.

Many Iranians have not witnessed such scenes from the end of the Iran -Irak war – especially not on the streets of the capital.

Many of those in Tehran and elsewhere, recall the confusion of Friday: what exactly is happening; How wide it was; And how could they protect themselves and their families?

Edited by Alexandra Fushe