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Tehran residents flee Israeli attacks, sparking huge jams: Reports

Residents of Tehran have fled the Iranian capital in large numbers in the face of Israeli bombardments, creating immense traffic jams on the main road

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Tehran residents flee Israeli attacks, sparking huge jams: Reports
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Published: 16 Jun 2025, 22: 34

This picture shows a general view of Iran's capital Tehran on 16 June 2025. AFP

Residents of Tehran have fled the Iranian capital in large numbers in the face of Israeli bombardments, creating immense traffic jams on the main road heading north, according to social media content posted on Monday.

Images verified by AFP, shot by a social media user from an overpass, showed near immobile traffic on a Tehran highway heading north with almost no vehicles in the opposite lane.

Israel on Friday launched a surprise aerial campaign targeting sites across Iran, saying the attacks aimed to prevent its archfoe from acquiring atomic weapons -- a charge Tehran denies.

The Israeli strikes have so far killed at least 224 people, including top military commanders, nuclear scientists but also civilians, according to Iranian authorities.

Iran launched strikes on Israel in retaliation which so far have killed 24 people, according to Israeli authorities.

Iranian authorities have closed civilian air space until further notice due to the Israel attacks, leaving land routes the only way out of Tehran which has been the main focus of Israeli attacks.

Israel has warned Iranians to stay away from any military infrastructure in a city where the security forces maintain a heavy presence, both overt and covert.

Videos filmed inside Iran and posted by Persian-language TV channels based abroad, such as Iran International and Manoto, as well as widely followed bloggers including Vahid Online, showed long queues of cars barely moving as they tried to leave Tehran.

The congestion appears to be concentrated on Highway 49 which connects Tehran with Chalus on the Caspian Sea in the Mazandaran province.

The region, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Tehran and typically a three-hour drive even in normal times due to the mountain roads, has so far been largely spared.

It is popular with Tehranis for its mild climate, with many maintaining holiday homes there.

Persian-language outlets meanwhile also posted images of hundreds of cars lining roads outside petrol stations in Tehran and its satellite city of Karaj, saying they were filling up ahead of long journeys outside of the city.

While air travel is impossible, Iranians can still in theory cross borders by land to go abroad.

Footage posted on social media, which has not been verified by AFP, showed hundreds queueing at the Bazargan crossing point in western Iran with Turkey close to the eastern Turkish city of Dogubayazit.​

 

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Khamenei, Iran's political survivor, faces ultimate test

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has weathered a series of challenges but Israel's unprecedented strikes mark his most serious crisis yet, threatening both the clerical system he leads and his own physical survival.

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Khamenei, Iran's political survivor, faces ultimate test
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Updated: 16 Jun 2025, 19: 49

A handout picture released by the official website of Iran`s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a meeting with school and university students in the capital Tehran on 3 November, 2019. AFP

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has weathered a series of challenges but Israel's unprecedented strikes mark his most serious crisis yet, threatening both the clerical system he leads and his own physical survival.

Khamenei, Iran's top leader since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, has ruled in the face of sanctions, near constant international tensions as well as protests that were ruthlessly repressed, most recently the 2022-2023 women-led uprising.

With Khamenei aged 86, the issue of succession was already looming large in Iran. But his moves now will have a decisive impact on the future on the system of which he has been a pillar since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the shah.

Meanwhile, his own physical survival could be at stake, with a senior American official saying Donald Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Khamenei but Israel is still not ruling out such a move.

"Khamenei is at the twilight of his rule, at the age 86, and already much of the daily command of the regime is not up to him but to various factions who are vying for the future," said Arash Azizi, senior fellow at Boston University.

"This process was already underway and the current war only accelerates it," he told AFP.

'Self-inflicted dilemma'

Israel's success in killing key Iranian figures, including the army chief and head of the Revolutionary Guards, has illustrated how Israeli intelligence can track Iranian leaders and raised the question of whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could give an order to seek to kill Khamenei himself.

The movements of the supreme leader, who has not left Iran since taking up the position and made his last foreign visit to North Korea in 1989 while still president, are subject to the tightest security and secrecy.

"It is possible that they might have a regime change plan of their own, either by supporting or semi-supporting a coup inside the regime or by continuing to kill at the highest level hoping that this leads to a fundamental shift in posture toward Israel or something of a regime change," said Azizi.

Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Khamenei faced a "self-inflicted dilemma" and already lacked the "physical and cognitive acumen to lead Iran into a high-tech war".

"A weak response to Israel further diminishes his authority, a strong response could further jeopardise his survival, and that of his regime," he said.

'Prided himself'

While keeping up the rhetoric of confrontation with the US and Israel and backing proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Khamenei long kept Iran out of direct conflict with its foes. But the current strikes appear to represent a sudden end to this strategy.

"He has prided himself on deterring conflict away from Iran's borders since he assumed the supreme leadership in 1989," said Jason Brodsky, policy director of US-based United Against Nuclear Iran. "So Khamenei has badly miscalculated."

Brodsky said the nearest comparison to the current situation were the attacks against leaders blamed on the opposition in the early 1980s which saw the then president killed and Khamenei himself wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt.

"It will be an experience that Khamenei will undoubtedly draw upon in the current context," Brodsky told AFP.

"But what we are witnessing today is on a completely different level of magnitude. And it's occurring at a pace that threatens to overwhelm the capacity of Tehran."

The scale of Israel's first attacks overnight Thursday to Friday, ahead of what were supposed to be a new round of talks in Oman on the Iranian nuclear programme, took the leadership by surprise at a time when it has been on the lookout for any further protests amid economic hardship.

"Indeed, the strikes have intensified already simmering tensions, and many Iranians want to see the Islamic republic gone. Crucially, however, most of them do not want this outcome to come at the cost of bloodshed and war," said Holly Dagres, senior fellow at The Washington Institute.

'Stay strong'

In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu suggested that "regime change" could be the outcome of the Israeli strikes, while insisting that it would be for the Iranian people to bring this about.

"It could certainly be the result as the Iran regime is very weak," he said, claiming that "80 percent of the people would throw these theological thugs out".

Asked if there was an Israeli plan to kill Khamenei that had been vetoed by Washington, Netanyahu replied: "We do what we need to do, we will do what we need to do and I think the United States knows what is good for the United States".

The Iranian opposition, both in exile and inside the country, remains riven by division. One of its most prominent representatives Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and who has warm relations with Israel, has told Iranians: "Stay strong and we will win."

So far, however, there have been no reports of mass protests, although some Persian-language television channels based abroad have broadcast images of groups shouting anti-Khamenei slogans.

Azizi cautioned: "The idea that this ends in a popular uprising that changes the regime or gives to power to someone in the Iranian opposition abroad has no basis in reality."​

 

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Israel bombs Iran’s state TV in latest wave of attacks on Tehran

Iran’s state television says it has been attacked by Israel in the latest wave of missile strikes on Tehran, Al Jazeera reports. Multiple explosions have been heard around the Iranian capital as Israel issued new evacuation threats, warning of imminent attacks, according to the report. Iran

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Israel bombs Iran’s state TV in latest wave of attacks on Tehran

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Jun 16, 2025 22:19
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Jun 16, 2025 22:19

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Iran’s state television says it has been attacked by Israel in the latest wave of missile strikes on Tehran, Al Jazeera reports.

Multiple explosions have been heard around the Iranian capital as Israel issued new evacuation threats, warning of imminent attacks, according to the report.

Iranian forces, in turn, have warned residents of Tel Aviv to evacuate, the Doha-based broadcaster adds.​

Iran bombed theirs!

 

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Bolo bhai?.......

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Understanding Washington’s war on Iran through Netanyahu

THE attack was repeatedly predicted by observers and analysts, including the US attempt to distance itself from the reckless adventure despite providing Israel with all the weapons used. There is a very high possibility that the US was directly involved...

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Understanding Washington’s war on Iran through Netanyahu
Simon Chege Ndiritu 17 June, 2025, 00:00

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THE attack was repeatedly predicted by observers and analysts, including the US attempt to distance itself from the reckless adventure despite providing Israel with all the weapons used. There is a very high possibility that the US was directly involved.

Activating long-term plans to destroy Iran

THE US involvement in this strike is impossible to conceal for many reasons, including that Washington, gives Israeli military resources equivalent to Brazil’s military budget every year. The recent made-up divide between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu was the last sign of an imminent attack, as the US thinks tank had plotted to instrumentalise Israel for this attack while both sides feigned disagreement to shield Washington from responsibility. However, Trump in his hubris stopped just short of admitting Washington’s culpability by praising Israeli aggression and reminding audiences how it occurred exactly after the 60-day ultimatum he had given the Iranian leadership lapsed. This means that Trump ordered the attack through Israel, noting that he has also already used it to threaten Iran to make a deal before Israel launches more such attacks. In his social media post, Trump did not appear concerned that the attack violates the UN charter or that it caused massive civilian casualty. The US and Israel do not care about civilian casualties due to their racist mindsets; Trump has already issued a veiled threat that more civilians will die if Iran does not capitulate. Both think that people in the non-Western world were born to serve or die to advance the West’s interests. Therefore, negotiating with a party with such supremacist views is pointless and is only designed to mislead countries to freeze in fear as the West advances its modern colonial rampage.

What does the attack reveal about negotiating with the West?

WASHINGTON’S facilitating Israeli attack on Iran, and Trump’s proceeding to praise it only a day before US-Iran talks were scheduled, illustrate how pointless it is to negotiate with the West. The US, Europe, and Israel view negotiations as a psychological ploy designed to make their appointed opponents delay their actions or lower their guards as the West escalates. It should be noted that the Israeli attack occurred only two days before US-Iran negotiations were scheduled in Oman. This attack was similar to the attempt on the Russian president’s life in Kursk, which occurred a few days before a major round of Ukraine-Russia negotiations was scheduled in Turkey. To illustrate the disingenuous nature of the US leadership, Trump would condemn Russia’s response to Ukraine’s attack while shifting responsibility to Vladimir Putin. Apparently, Trump expected Russians to lower their guard or pause military action even while his administration was facilitating Ukraine to assassinate Russia’s president and later conduct attacks on Russia’s strategic aviation.

Since no helicopter has been downed by a drone across the Russia-Ukraine front before, the Kursk attempt on Putin means that the West was applying higher capabilities while expecting Russians to halt their operations in anticipation of disingenuous peace overtures from Trump. Furthermore, audiences should note that the former Hezbollah leader was assassinated when the US had claimed that a ceasefire was impending. From the above experiences, Iranians or other parties that may believe the West’s overtures for diplomatic solutions will be disappointed. Washington’s appointed opponents must decide whether to use their weapons to defend themselves or wait to be eliminated with their weapons intact, which will not spare their populations of Western genocide. A good example that their populations will not be spared can be seen in how Israel has continued violating Syrians after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, whom the West and Israel had framed as the only enemy and not the civilians.

West’s offer to the world: endless wars, and zealotry

A WAR against Iran has been a consensus of Washington’s deep state parties that have only disagreed on how to market it to American audiences. For instance, in 2001, Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme allied commander for Europe during the Kosovo War reported receiving plans developed by Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to destroy 7 countries, the last of which was Iran. The US and its vassals have already destroyed the other 6 countries, with Iran surviving because Washington thought attacking it would have prohibitive consequences. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has gone to Washington several times calling for an attack on several countries, for instance, his call to attack Iraq in early 2000, his cheering of destabilisation of the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, and his calls to invade Iran on several occasions. Also, his addresses to the US Congress and the UN in 2023 and 2024 entailed calls to invade Iran, which can be understood as statements from Washington.

Israel has historically operated as America’s forward operating base, with its civilians being a source of conscripts and a trip-wire used to blackmail the rest of the world to defend US reckless military adventures. This latest attack is particularly brazen, as it cannot be justified by the usual claims of targeting Hamas or Hezbollah leaders in Iranian cities. Also, it was imperialist noting that Netanyahu’s claimed that it aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring Nuclear weapons, despite targeting several military leaders and civilians. These justifications are pathetic for among other reasons that no international body mandates Israel to prevent countries from having nuclear weapons. Also, Israel runs nuclear facilities and has undeclared nuclear weapons, making it chauvinistic to try barring Iran from developing nuclear technology. Importantly, Netanyahu’s justifications fly in the face of Article 2, part 4 of the UN charter which prohibits countries from threatening or using force against others. This attack evolved exactly according to a 2009 Brookings Institute report, which outlined how an attack on Iran was supposed to be preceded by diplomatic gimmicks designed to fool other countries that Washington was giving Iran a good off-ramp from developing nuclear weapons, which Iran would be painted as having rejected. However, it was Trump who withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal, making the attack on Iran through Israel as reckless as George Bush’s war against Iraq. The pressure leveled against Iran has been baseless since the country’s leadership has an internal policy that prohibits the development of nuclear weapons, and has also signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Total contempt for the international law

THERE was nothing ‘preemptive’ about Israeli’s attack on Iran, only a colonial and imperialist attitude that must not be allowed to stand. Israel and its Western backers are progressively showing all possible disdain for international law and multilateral bodies. This contempt can be noted in the notion that they are supposed to have control of what Iran does within its boundaries, noted in Netanyahu’s and Trump’s demands that Iran stop Nuclear enrichment, while their countries possess nuclear weapons and routinely bomb others. Also, a world in which the West’s nuclear scientists receive Nobel Peace Prizes while Iran’s get to be assassinated is unacceptable. The US, Israel, and other colonialist states must not be allowed space to unilaterally decide what other countries do within their sovereign territories.

New Eastern Outlook, June 15.Simon Chege Ndiritu is a political observer and research analyst from Africa.​

 

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