“Got stuck”. This is the word that is mostly spoken to the use of BBC, which is currently to describe life in Iran.
After the three -day Israeli attacks, “everyone is trying to escape” Tehran “,” in a way or another, “a resident told BBC News Persian.
On Sunday, long queues were built at petrol stations across the city. Many people tried to leave for remote areas, away from any possible Israeli target, but could not get out of the province due to heavy traffic.
“Tehran is not safe, clearly,” a resident said. “We do not get any alarm or warning from the authorities about the Israeli attacks. We just listen to the blasts and hope that our place is not a hit. But where can we go?”
A person who managed to move from Tehran to another, said: “I don’t think I have fully processed that I am living in an active war field, and I am not sure when I will reach acceptance.”
“This is not my war. I am not rooting from both sides, I just want to survive with my family.”
From Friday, Israel hit Iran with its biggest wave of air strikes over the years.
Israel’s attacks have led a vengeance from Iran, which has launched missile attacks on Israel.
Officials said at least 10 people have been killed in Israel. Citing the Health Ministry, Iranian media said that 128 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday afternoon.
An Irani told the BBC that she could not sleep for two nights: “I have really gone through difficult situations.”
She said that the present situation reminds her of bomb blasts and goes to shelters during the 1980s Iran-Eraq War, when she was a child.
“The difference is that back, at least when there was an attack, we warned the air red siren or at least before this. But now, during this bombing or any airstrike, there is no siren or warning.”
The younger people born after the war do not know how it was, Habibiazad, the BBC News Persian, said.
A woman in Tehran said that she had considered leaving the city to escape the attacks.
“We want to go to all small cities or villages, we can go anywhere, but each of us has loved ones who cannot leave, and we are thinking about them,” he said. “What we are experiencing is not appropriate for any of us, the people of Iran.”
“We are all trying to get through fear, tiredness and very stress through these days, it is very difficult and painful.”
A resident of the capital said: “I cannot just leave Tehran. I cannot leave my elderly parents who cannot travel far and long and leave the city myself. Also, I need to show to work. What can I do now?”
The Internet has been unstable, so it is very difficult to keep in touch with the people inside the country.
Many of the people living outside the country are sending messages to loved ones, expecting an answer.
Some people have also received warnings from the Israeli Army that all Iranians have been asked to release areas near military sites. People are most concerned about this in Tehran.
“How do we know where a military site is and where is not?” One said.
Separate, Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a message to the Iranians on the second day of the attacks that “the time for Iranians” standing for your freedom “has come” for the Iranians “.
However, the people of the country have so far chosen to be safe and there is very few evidence that Netanyahu’s call is echoed on the ground, said Darius Karimi of Derian of BBC News Persian.
Inside Iran, which probably surprised people the most, was the destruction of residential buildings, even more than the attacks on nuclear facilities and airbase, Poyan Kalani of BBC News Persian said.
Many Iranians had not seen such scenes since the end of the Iran -Iraq war – not especially on the streets of the capital.
Many of them in Tehran and elsewhere, remember Friday’s confusion: what was really happening; How broad it was; And how can they protect themselves and their families?
Edited by Alexandra Foche
