Urgent 24: Between panic and celebration… Contrasting scenes from the streets of Iran under bombardment… What is the story?

Circulating video clips showed civilians fleeing in panic near the explosion sites, amid sounds of screaming and crying.

Between panic and celebration, contradictory scenes from the streets of Iran

Saw the capital Tehran A severe traffic crisis and crowding in front of gas stations, with the beginning of a mass exodus of residents towards the northern cities near the Caspian Sea in search of safety, amid a heavy demand to stock up on canned foods.
This chaos coincides with an almost complete interruption of the Internet, as some people try with difficulty to communicate with the outside world via Starlink satellite Internet networks. StarlinkLocal residents also confirmed a heavy security deployment in the streets leading to the Supreme Leader’s headquarters complex Ali Khamenei.

Celebrations amidst the devastation

According to the BBC BBCIt conveyed scenes that showed a feeling of relief among some, and in one of the clips, a woman clearly spoke of her happiness over the targeting of Khamenei’s residence, while another clip showed teenagers dancing in a school and chanting in welcome to the strikes, saying: We love Trump.
This coincided with some Iranians receiving anonymous text messages saying: Help has arrived, calling on them to stay in their homes and demanding that the security forces lay down their weapons.

Farewell commandments

Before the internet outage, many Iranians rushed to write wills on social media platforms, and one of them wrote: If we die, do not forget that we exist… We are the ones who oppose any military attack and we will become mere numbers in reports of the dead.
Another wrote: Damn the dictatorship that caused this war… Please take care of our children if something happens to us, and tell them that we did everything we could and demonstrated silently.

Minab School Tragedy

It is worth noting that a wave of anger erupted after official reports of the killing of 40 girls in raid A school was targeted in Minab cityAlthough opponents of military intervention denounced the attack, others accused the Iranian regime for not evacuating schools, providing shelters, and cutting off lines of communication for citizens under these disastrous circumstances.
According to the BBC report, a wide sector of Iranians fear that the regime will survive these strikes, only to return and practice more brutal and retaliatory repression at home.