FLASH
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Testimony from citizens who had just started their day, taking their children to school and others who were already at work, when they suddenly saw a multitude of planes flying and heard continuous explosions…
Iranians had just begun their workweek on Saturday morning, February 28, when American and Israeli strikes caused panic in Tehran, with residents taking to the streets and parents rushing to return to the schools where they had just dropped off their children. Witnesses who spoke to the New York Times said chaos and uncertainty prevailed in the Iranian capital.
Ali, a businessman from Tehran, wrote that he was sitting in his office with his employees when they heard two explosions and saw fighter jets flying overhead. The employees ran out of the building screaming, he said.
Mirdamad Hamidreza Zad, a resident of the upscale neighborhood, said he saw at least 10 fighter jets flying overhead as locals ran through the streets, with some drivers abandoning their cars on the crowded streets. Other residents rushed to pick up their children from school amid the blaring sirens of ambulances.
“I ran to the school to pick up my daughter from high school. The girls were hiding under the stairs and crying,” said Ali Zeynalipour, who was contacted by a Times reporter through the social networking app Clubhouse. “The principal didn’t know what had happened, everyone was so scared,” he said.
From the roof of her apartment in the northern Velendzak neighborhood of Tehran, Golshan Fati said she saw the second wave of warplanes. “People were standing on the roofs, looking up at the sky and pointing down. You could hear women screaming. Some of my neighbors were running in their cars,” she said. “We felt like we were in a movie.”
In the Pasdaran neighborhood, where a large compound belonging to the IRGC is located, residents heard several explosions that shook their windows.
"My children are crying and scared, we are gathered in the bathroom, we don't know what to do. It's terrible," Esfandiar, an engineer who lives in the area, wrote in a message.
As local media began reporting explosions in other Iranian cities, telecommunications began to fail. A resident named Mahsa said she was fleeing Pasdaran, unable to contact her loved ones to tell them where she was going.
Not all Iranians were angered by the smoke rising from the explosions, said Arian, a resident of Ekteban, west of the capital, who said some of his relatives cheered the attacks. He said he heard voices outside his home chanting "Long live the Shah," a sign of support for the Iranian monarchy, which was overthrown in the 1979 revolution that brought the Islamic Republic to power. /Pamphlet/
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