Tehran is also surrounded by mountainous terrain, and exit routes are limited to fewer than a dozen arteries that lead out of the city. Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari spoke to some residents who had ...

Tehran, home to 10 million people, suffers from severe traffic congestion making a speedy evacuation impossible.

Tehran residents warned to evacuate ahead of Israeli strikes by Elizabeth Crisp - 06/16/25 12:29 PM ET. by Elizabeth Crisp - 06/16/25 12:29 PM ET.

During the nearly two weeks of fighting between Israel and Iran, residents of Tehran were ordered to evacuate the city. But ...

MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

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.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday again warned residents of Tehran to evacuate the Iranian capital amid its military campaign against Iran’s nuclear program, which on Saturday was joined ...

President Donald Trump departed the G7 summit Monday evening, cutting short his planned time in Canada due to developments in ...

Later Monday, Trump posted on his social media site an ominous message calling for the immediate evacuation of Tehran, Iran’s capital. He made the post while in Canada attending the G7 summit ...

Tehran is home to nearly 10 million people and is the largest city in Iran and West Asia. This evening’s evacuation order is for residents in Block 3 of Tehran, which is in the northeastern part ...

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least eight people, while Israel warned residents of part of Tehran to evacuate ahead of new strikes.