“I do not want Tehran to turn to Gaza”: the Iranians are on Israeli strikes

Long queues at gasoline and bakeries. Long lines of cars try to escape from the capital. And long, frightening nights.

Tehran residents – still develop Israel’s sudden attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday morning – are talking about fear and confusion, a feeling of deficit and conflicting emotions.

A 21 -year -old music student told me about the encrypted social media application: “We did not sleep for nights.”

“Everyone is leaving, but I am not. My father says it is the supervisor to die in your home more than escape.”

Donia – does not want to reveal her real name – she is one of many Iranians who are now in a war between a regime that you hate and Israel, which has witnessed its destroyed power in Gaza on the screen from afar.

She said, “I don’t really want Tehran to turn the beautiful to Gaza.”

As for the call of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Iranians to rise against their written leadership, it has a firm response.

“We do not want Israel to save us. No foreign country cared for Iran,” she said. “We also do not want the Islamic Republic.”

Another woman said that she initially felt a “strange excitement” to see Israel killing Iranian military officials so strong that she thought they would live forever.

“Suddenly, the image of power was shattered,” she told the BBC Persian.

“But from the second day, when I heard that ordinary people – the people I did not know, people like me – were also killed, and I started to feel sad, fearful and sad.”

She said that her sadness turned into anger when I heard that the southern Pars gas field had been injured, fearing that Israel was trying to turn Iran into “ruins.”

She said for the first time in her life, she started preparing for the idea of ​​death.

More than 220 people – many of them women and children – have been killed since Friday, according to the Iranian authorities.

The Israeli authorities say that Iranian missiles killed at least 24 people in Israel during the same period.

Unlike Israel, there are no warnings of imminent attacks in Iran, and there are no shelters to run.

The missiles fall from the sky, but a campaign of car bombs in Tehran – as reported by the Israeli and Iranian media – has stitated more panic and confusion.

Some supporters of the regime have even annoyed that his adopted defenses have been completely exposed.

Among the many Iranians, he does not trust the authorities deeply.

Donia used to challenge the system and strict dress rules by going out with her hair.

Now, with the postponement of her university exams until next week, she will stay at home.

She said, “I feel terrifying at night.” “I take some pills to help me relax and try to sleep.”

The Iranian government suggested that people be sheltered in metro mosques and stations.

But this is difficult, when the explosions seem to be nothing.

Another young woman said to the BBC Persian: “Tehran is a big city, however, every neighborhood has been affected in one way or another damage.”

“At the present time, all we do is check the news every hour and contact friends and relatives whose neighborhood is exposed to ensuring that they are still alive.”

Hha and her family now left their house to stay in an area where there are no well -known government buildings.

But you never know, in a country like Iran, which may live next to you.

She said that the Israeli attack divided the Iranians, while celebrating some regime’s losses, while others are angry with those who chanted Israel.

Many Iranians continue to change their opinion about what they think. Divides are bitter, even between some families.

“The situation seems to be the first hours after Titanic hit the iceberg,” said the woman.

“Some people were trying to escape, and some used to say it was not a big problem, others continued to dance.”

She has always protested against the rulers of Iranian clerics, as she told BBC, but she sees what Netanyahu is doing to her country that he was “unforgivable.”

“Everyone’s life, whether they supported or not, has changed forever.

“Most of the Iranians, even those who oppose the government, have realized that freedom and human rights do not come from Israeli bombs that are located in cities where civil civilians live.”

“Most of us are afraid and anxious about what will happen after that. We have fill the bags with first aid supplies, food and water, only if things increase,” she added.

Israel says that the Iranian armed forces have intentionally placed command and arms centers inside buildings and civil fields.

Members of the great diaspora in Iran are also concerned.

“It is difficult to convey something similar to being Iranian at the present time,” says his role, “It is difficult to convey something similar to being Iranian at the present time.”

“You are happy because the members of the regime – who were tortured and killed – are taken out.

“But we know that civilians are dying. This is a devastating humanitarian catastrophe.”

She says that the Iranians are not given accurate information about what is happening.

“The main person in Iran – the supreme leader – is still alive while the Iranians escape for their lives.”

“Nobody wants Iran to turn into Iraq, Syria, or another Afghanistan. None of us wants this war. We do not want the regime either.”