Iranians on life under Israeli attacks

“Blocked”. This is the word that most people who talked to the BBC use to describe life in Iran at the moment.

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

On Sunday, long queues were formed in the service stations across the city. Many people have tried to go to remote areas, far from any possible Israeli target, but could not even get out of the province due to intense circulation.

“Tehran is not safe, clearly,” said a resident. “We do not get any alarm or warning of managers of Israeli attacks. We simply hear the explosions and hope that our place will not be struck. But where can we go? Nowhere.”

A person who has managed to move from Tehran to another province said: “I don’t think I have completely treated that I live in an active war area, and I don’t know when I reach acceptance.”

“It’s not my war. I am not rooted for both sides, I just want to survive with my family.”

Since Friday, Israel has struck Iran with its greatest wave of air strikes for years.

The strikes of Israel have led to reprisals from Iran, which launched missile attacks against Israel.

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

An Iranian told the BBC that she had not been able to sleep for two nights: “I experienced really difficult situations.”

She said that the current situation reminds her of the attacks of the attacks and the shelters during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, when she was a child.

“The difference is that at the time, at least when an attack occurred, we heard the air raid mermaid or at least warnings before it happens. But now, during this bombing or any air raid, there are no sirens or warnings.”

Young people, born after the war, do not know what it looked like, said Ghoncheh Habizad de BBC News Persian.

A woman in Tehran said that she had planned to leave the city to escape attacks.

“We all wanted to go to small towns or villages, wherever we can go, but each of us has dear beings who cannot leave, and we think of them,” she said. “What we live is not just for any of us, the Iranian people.”

“We all try to spend these days in fear, exhaustion and a lot of stress, it’s extremely difficult and painful.”

A resident of the capital said: “I can’t just leave Tehran. I cannot leave my elderly parents who cannot travel far and long and leave the city myself. In addition, I need to introduce myself to work. What can I do now?”

The Internet has been unstable, so it is very difficult to stay in touch with people inside the country.

Many of those who live outside the country send messages to dear beings, hoping for an answer.

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

“How are we supposed to know where a military site is and where is not?” One said.

Separately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a message to the Iranians on the second day of the attacks said that “the time has come” so that the Iranians unite “defending your freedom”.

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

Iran, what may have shocked the most people is the destruction of residential buildings, even more than attacks on nuclear and bases, said Pouyan Kalani of BBC News Persian.

Many Iranians had not witnessed scenes like this since the end of the Iran-Iraq war-especially not in the streets of the capital.

Many of those in Tehran and elsewhere remember Friday’s confusion: what was going on exactly; How widespread it was; And how could they protect themselves and protect their families?

Edited by Alexandra Fouché