T he enormous roundabout at Azadi Square was full of cars, yet still felt somehow deserted. Then it dawned on me: Humans—they ...

In Iran’s capital city, the streets are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best. Panicked masses spend restless nights on the floors of metro stations as strikes boom overhead.

People have started to leave Tehran en masse following President Donald Trump's order to immediately evacuate Iran's capital city, videos shared on social media show.

Tehran people caught between fear, resolve as air war intensifies. Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:00 AM Last update on: Tue Jun 17, 2025 11:55 PM . AFP, Tehran. Wed Jun ...

Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate the middle of Iran’s capital as Israel’s air campaign on Tehran appeared to broaden on the fourth day of an intensifying conflict.

Trump warns Tehran residents to ‘evacuate immediately’. But can they? Tehran, home to 10 million people, suffers from severe traffic congestion making a speedy evacuation impossible.

The first explosions jolted people awake in Tehran shortly after 3am on June 13, when a large number of Israeli fighter jets and drones attacked dozens of areas across the country, and explosives ...

The woman people had been calling the “cat lady” stood at her door, looking past me as though into a burning forest. I followed her to the kitchen, where she handed me a glass of lemonade.