Stranded Kashmiri college students being shifted out of Iran’s capital Tehran to safer areas, say mother and father

Smoke rises following what Iran says was an Israeli assault on Sharan Oil depot in Tehran, Iran, on June 16, 2025.
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Scores of scholars from Jammu and Kashmir pursuing skilled programs in Iran have been reportedly shifted from capital Tehran to safer places on Monday (June 16, 2025). Nonetheless, anxious mother and father are apprehensive in regards to the college students who’re finding out in different cities of Iran, which is dealing with a serious aerial assault from Israel over the previous 4 days.

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With communication traces, particularly Web service, rising weaker between Iran and India, S. Qadri, a resident of Srinagar, mentioned his daughter knowledgeable the household on Monday (June 16, 2025) morning that Kashmiri college students have been being shifted in batches to Qom, a metropolis in north-central Iran that’s thought-about a safer location.

Saqib Ali, a resident of Budgam, mentioned her sister, finding out in a varsity in Tehran, was additionally shifted to Qom up to now 12 hours. “She mentioned the place is comparatively calm in comparison with Tehran. She was not ready to sleep in Tehran within the face of Israeli assaults. They have been later shifted in buses. The Web is sluggish and we solely handle to message them. I attraction to the Authorities of India and the J&Okay authorities to search out out a strategy to evacuate all of them,” Mr. Ali mentioned.

A number of college students finding out in varsities in Tehran informed their mother and father over the cellphone that they heard loud explosions in Tehran on June 15 and couldn’t sleep as a result of menace of Israeli missiles hitting the varsities.

No evacuation in Sheraz

In the meantime, the daddy of a pupil from Nawa Kadal, Srinagar, informed the household that the scholars finding out in different cities like Sheraz weren’t being evacuated but.

In the meantime, a spokesman of the J&Okay College students Affiliation mentioned the scholars of Tehran College of Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad College and Iran College of Medical Sciences have been “efficiently relocated on Monday”.

‘Scenario quickly deteriorating’

One estimate prompt round 600 college students from Kashmir have been shifted to safer places in Qom. Nasir Khuehami, nationwide convenor of the affiliation, mentioned: “Many college students are enrolled in faculties and universities situated dangerously near key army installations and strategic targets. College students have reported listening to airstrike sirens, experiencing tremors, and observing intensified army exercise of their environment. The scenario has deteriorated quickly since final evening, and a few college students are even in cities the place direct Israeli airstrikes have already occurred,” he mentioned.

A police spokesperson in Srinagar urged locals that if any college students, staff, or people from Srinagar district are presently stranded in Iran as a result of prevailing scenario there and require help, they or their members of the family might kindly attain out to the District Police, Srinagar for assist and help. “The collected info can be compiled and forwarded to the involved authorities for applicable and well timed motion,” the police mentioned.