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“Everything happened so quickly. I did not expect that. We heard fighter planes, we saw air defense systems shooting objects that were probably drones,” he said. “We are all terrified, and we do not know what to predict, but we do not want this war.”
While the first explosions triggered, people started sending panicked messages to their loved ones abroad.
Azam Jangravi, an Iranian human rights defender who lives in Canada, showed NBC News the texts she received from her 17 -year -old cousin, Donya, in Tehran.
“It’s so scary,” wrote the girl. “While the call for prayer is broadcast, you continue to hear these booms, one after the other.”
Like Jangravi, thousands of Iranians abroad have impatiently attempted to reach their loved ones at home, but with very little luck. Communications are uneven and increasingly difficult.
According to the Netblocks site, which monitors internet access worldwide, there was an almost total internet breakdown in the country on Thursday because the Iranian authorities closed the network.
For Jangravi, the Iranians are taken between two sides at war.
“Two governments are fighting on our land,” she said. “In the first days of war, people were happy because they thought they would kill Khamenei, but right now, they have no hope,” she said to refer to the supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
