Videos show the impacts of the attacks and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation across the Middle East

The government provided little advice in the days before the attacks or as the bombs fell, more than a dozen Iranians said in interviews.

In the early hours of Saturday, February 28, Israel and the United States launched a major coordinated military offensive against Iran, striking targets across Tehran and multiple other Iranian cities in what Israeli officials are calling "Operation Roaring Lion.

Tehran residents shouted in joy at reports of the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and motorists hooted, according to reports emerging from the Iranian capital late on Saturday.

Iranians were beginning their workweek as U.S. and Israeli strikes sent people fleeing parts of the capital and parents racing to collect children from schools.

Iran’s foreign minister says Donald Trump’s aim of regime change is ‘mission impossible’; 201 people killed in Iran, media reports say

US Strikes on Iran: Donald Trump announced that the United States launched “major military operations” against Iran to eliminate “immediate threats” from the Iranian regime. In an eight-minute video shared on social media, he also urged Iranian citizens to “take control of your government” after the operation.

Amid escalating tensions between US and Iran, the Islamic Republic has issued an advisory for its citizens in 5 nations to evacuate at the earliest. Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi has also urged Indian nationals to remain vigilant.