The recent conflict began with Israeli strikes targeting Iranian military and nuclear sites on June 13. Iran retaliated by firing barrage of missiles and drones at Israel, some of which penetrated the country’s air defense system. The conflict so far has killed hundreds of people and wounded more than 1,000 in Iran and killed two dozen and wounded hundreds in Israel, as per reports.
Under the ongoing Operation Sindhu, the Indian Embassy in Iran has been assisting large numbers of Indian nationals in moving from areas seeing increased hostilities to relatively safer areas within the country and to subsequently evacuate them using the available and feasible options.
MEA addressing the Indian nationals in Iran, advised them to stay in touch with the Indian Embassy in Tehran through its emergency helpline, and with the 24x7 Control Room established by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi.
Outlook spoke to some of the students who were evacuated from Iran under Operation Sindhu.
00:00In Tehran, we were scared very much because of that explosion, we could hear it and we could see it clearly.
00:19We thought it's like the same thing that happened last year.
00:24Last year also, Israel attacked Iran, then Iran attacked back on Israel and after one or two weeks everything was normal.
00:33But this time when I heard that some military personnel, top military generals were killed, it was clear that this time they are going to retaliate and they would seek revenge.
00:44I would like to mention the All India Medical Student Association, who helped us continuously contact our parents so that they would not worry.
00:54Because in Tehran, the network was already cut out.
00:58Dr. Mohamed Mumin Khan and Dr. Mujtaba Shah were the persons.
01:03They were continuously contacting our parents and they already came there.
01:08When we reached Delhi, they were already there.
01:12For almost three or four days we stayed in our dormitory. Those were the guidelines from the Indian Embassy at that time.
01:18And after that, after four or five days, you know, there were many rumors spreading that if you don't relocate to Khumbh in 45 minutes, you won't get evacuated.
01:30Such rumors were spreading and the students were panicking because of these rumors.
01:34Every now and then there was a group taking information from the students, their private information and everything.
01:39And to combat that, I made a group for all the students in Iran or Indian students in Iran.
01:45And I added some officials into that group so they could share correct and authentic information with us.
01:51In Tehran, there was a lot of bombing in Tehran and the children were scared.
01:56So the embassy started evacuating the embassy.
01:58Then they saw all the Iranian children in Iran and they said that they had to remove the bombing from the Iran.
02:05They started to remove all the children from the Khumbh from the Khumbh.
02:08The Khumbh was a long distance from the Khumbh.
02:09The Khumbh was a long distance from the Khumbh.
02:10And they were there.
02:11And they said, what did they say?
02:14What is that,dale?
02:15And what did they say had been made into the Khumbh?
02:16Menghudi Ji.
02:17And they had an airport and they were all out of the Khumbh.
02:19And they just started outside the Khumbh.
02:21And they went to Iran now.
02:22And we were directly into Iran.
02:23Amazing it was the only commander in Armenia.
02:24Also the commander in the Khumbh.
02:25We have to look at the U.S.
02:26So they were going to get the war.
02:27But the commander in Armenia would be there.
02:28This is also a black man.
02:29Another commander in India, in Saudi Arabia.
02:31So they won noch more.
02:32Yeah.
02:33This commander in Saudi Arabia before it was to come.
