(22 Jun 2025)
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Van, Turkey – 22 June 2025
1. Wide of Turkey-Iran border gate, people with suitcases
2. Various of bordergate, people with suitcases
3. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani Turkish) Ferishat Hosseini, Iranian citizen:
"They (Israel) told us. Everybody should leave Tehran, no one should be there. Tehran is empty, there is no one.
Journalist: "Who told you this?"
Hosseini: "Israel. Israel said we don’t hit people, only other targets. They don’t hit people and apartments."
4. Wide of people sitting, some passing with suitcases
5. Mid of men sitting, people walking with suitcases
6. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani Turkish) Behnam Puran, Iran citizen:
"We won’t leave our rights, we won’t leave our land. We will stay in our land, as long as we live, we will stay in our land until the war ends. You know Israel is bombing Gaza for many years now, killing children and families. I thank Erdogan for seeing these all the time during his speeches. This gives us more power. Despite that nobody accepts this war, (we know) Turkey is a fellow country and helps us."
7. Various of the bordergate
8. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani Turkish) Perîyah Gomani, Iran citizen:
"The United States and Israel, they united against Iran. But Iran is strong, always strong.
Journalist: "So you won’t flee the war?"
Gomani: "No, we always stand with Iran."
9. Wide of the bordergate
10. Mid of two people hugging
11. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani Turkish) Ferishat Hosseini, Iran citizen:
"The war should end. Now the U.S have also been included. This war should end. If not, it will be very bad for people. Everyone lives in groups of 10-20, in the same house. But supplies are running short."
12. Mid of the gate
13. Wide of the bordergate reading (Turkish) “ Kapikoy Bordergate”
STORYLINE:
At Turkey’s border with Iran, Iranian citizens expressed hope despite the recent escalation as the U.S. joined in Israel’s war to dismantle the country’s nuclear apparatus.
Ferishteh Husseini said many residents had left Tehran, following a warning from Israel for citizens to evacuate the city. "Tehran is empty, there is no one," she said shortly after crossing into Turkey.
"Now the U.S have also been included. This war should end," she added. "If not, it will be very bad for people."
Husseini said many people and families are living in groups of 10-20 people per house as they evacuated, and supplies are running short.
The United States inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran early Sunday by dropping 30,000-pound bombs on an uranium enrichment site buried under a mountain, a risky gambit that aimed to destroy the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program after months of failed diplomacy.
The attack prompted fears of a wider regional conflict as Iran lashed out at the U.S. for crossing “a very big red line.”
The U.S. also fired dozens of missiles, and President Donald Trump said in a televised address from the White House that the combination of strikes “completely and fully obliterated” three nuclear sites.
However, U.S. defense officials said an assessment of the damage wrought by the attack still was ongoing.
Hours later, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the time for diplomacy had passed and that his country had the right to defend itself.
Araghchi said he would immediate fly to Moscow to coordinate positions with its ally, Russia.
Periyah Gomani, who was crossing back into Iran after spending some time in Turkey, told the AP that although the U.S. had now united behind Israel, "Iran is strong, always strong."
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