“I don’t want Tehran to turn into gas”: Iranians on Israeli blows

Long queues at gasoline stations and bakeries. Long lines of cars try to avoid the capital. And long, scary nights.

The inhabitants of Tehran – still shocked by the sudden attack of Israel on Iran in the first hours on Friday – talk about fear and confusion, feeling of helplessness and contradictory emotions.

“We didn’t sleep overnight,” a 21-year-old music student told me in a encrypted social media application.

“Everyone goes away, but I’m not. My dad says more honorable in your home than run away.”

“Don” – she does not want to reveal her real name – is one of the many Iranians who are now in the war between the regime she hates and Israel, whose destructive force she witnessed on the screen.

“I really don’t want my beautiful Tehran to turn into gas,” she said.

As for the call of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iranians rise against her official leadership, she has a firm response.

“We do not want Israel to save us. No foreign country never took care of Iran,” she said. “We also do not want the Islamic Republic.”

Another woman said that at first she felt “amazing excitement” to see how Israel kills Iranian military officials so powerful that they thought they would live forever.

“Suddenly this image of power was broken,” she said the BBC Persian.

“But from the second day, when I heard that ordinary people – people I didn’t know, people like me were also killed, I began to feel sad, fear and sadness.”

And she said that her sadness turned into anger, hearing that the South Parsa gas field was impressed, fearing Israel was trying to turn Iran into ruins.

For the first time in her life, she said, she began to prepare for the idea of ​​die.

More than 220 people – many of them women and children – died from Friday, Iranian authorities reported.

Israeli authorities say at least 24 people in Israel have been killed in the same period.

Unlike Israel, Iran has no warnings about inevitable attacks, and there will be no shelters.

The missiles fall from the sky, but the company of car bombs in Tehran – both Israeli and Iranian media reports – sewed extra panic and confusion.

Even some supporters of the regime are reportedly upset that his very joking defense was so thoroughly exposed.

And, among many Iranians, distrust of the authorities is deep.

Dhenya was applied to the regime and its strict DRES, leaving unclean hair.

Now that its university exams have been postponed until next week, it remains at home.

“I was so horrified at night,” she said. “I take a few pills to help me relax and try to fall asleep.”

The Iranian government has suggested that people be leaning against the mosques and subway stations.

But it’s hard when the explosions seem to come out of nowhere.

“Tehran is a big city, and yet every neighborhood has somehow suffered from damage,” said another young woman BBC Persian.

“So far, all we do is check the news every hour and call friends and relatives whose neighborhood was impressed to make sure they are still alive.”

Now she and her family have left their home to stay in an area where there are no famous state buildings.

But you never know in a country like Iran who can live near you.

The Israeli attack divided the Iranians, she said, some noted the loss of the regime, while others are angry with those who encouraged Israel.

Many Iranians continue to change their minds about what they think. Departments are bitter, even among some families.

“The situation feels like the first hours after Titanic got to the iceberg,” the woman said.

“Some people tried to escape, some said it was not a big deal, but others continued to dance.”

She always protested against Iran’s official rulers, she said the BBC, but sees that Netanyahu makes her country as “inexcusable”.

“Everyone’s life, whether they supported the attacks or not, was changed forever.

“Most Iranians, even those who oppose the government, have now realized that freedom and human rights do not come from Israeli bombs who enter the cities where defenseless civilians live.”

She added: “Most of us are afraid and worried what will happen next. We have packed first aid bags, food and water, just in case everything worsens.”

Israel says the Iranian armed forces intentionally placed their team centers and weapons in civilian buildings and districts.

Members of the great Iran diaspora also worry.

“It’s hard to convey what it is to be Iranian now,” says Dorrech Hatibi Hill, an act of women based in Lids, and a researcher who maintains communication with family, friends and other anti-regiments.

“You are happy that the members of the regime – who tortured and kill people – are taken out.

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

And the Iranians do not give accurate information about what is happening, she says.

“The main person in Iran is the supreme leader – still alive, and Iranians are saved from their lives,” she adds.

“Nobody wants Iran to become another Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan. None of us want this war. We also want the regime.”