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An attack by the United States and Israel has wreaked havoc in Iran, spreading fear amongst Iranians who are now heading out of cities out of panic and searching for safety.
Explosions rocked Tehran and columns of smoke rose into the sky on Saturday morning, shaking the city at the start of the Iranian working week. One man, speaking to Reuters from the capital, says he was rushing to get his children from school.
Minou, a 32-year-old mother of two from the northern city of Tabriz, one of many areas where explosions were reported, says she is terrified. “My children are shaking, we have nowhere to go, we will die here. What is going to happen to my children?”
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Iran’s top security body says it expects attacks to continue in Tehran and some other cities, and therefore urges people to “travel to other cities where possible so that they may remain safe from the harm of these two regimes’ acts of aggression”. Schools and universities will be closed until further notice.
The attack marks the latest upheaval for Iranians just weeks after thousands of people were killed in a government crackdown on nationwide unrest, and comes just eight months after last year’s 12-day war with Israel, during which the United States bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
US President Donald Trump said the operation would end a security threat to the United States and offer Iranians a chance to topple their rulers.
The Pentagon said that US strikes against Iran were named “OPERATION EPIC FURY.”
An Iranian from the central city of Yazd says he hopes that the attack will topple the clerical establishment that has run the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “Let them bomb,” says the resident.
However, Samira Mohebbi, speaking from the northern city of Rasht, disagreed.
“I am against this regime, to hell with them. But I don’t want my country to be attacked by foreign forces, I don’t want my Iran to turn into Iraq,” referring to the neighbouring country that suffered years of chaos and bloodshed following the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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