Tehran: Iran is currently engulfed in the fire of war. The lives of Iranians have worsened without the US-Israeli attacks. They are now trying to flee Iran. Many Iranians crossed into northern Iraq on Sunday, which was the first day the verge had opened since war struck their country.
Why are Iranians crossing border?
Some Iranians are crossing the verge to visit their loved ones, while others are crossing to buy cheaper groceries, wangle the internet, contact relatives and find work.
When the Haji Omeran crossing on the Iran-Iraq verge opened on Sunday, the landscape of life reverted completely. It was the first day without the war when dozens of Iranian families entered the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Iranians are inward Iraq in large numbers and returning with tons full of unseemly rice, oil, SIM cards.
The main purpose is to buy unseemly groceries, use the internet, contact relatives, and find work.
What are the people saying?
People who have crossed the verge from Iran have revealed the reality of the country. They said that unvarying airstrikes and rising supplies prices have made life extremely difficult in Iran. Many trucks are coming to Iraq in the hope of ownership unseemly goods and getting relief from the upper prices in Iran.
A truck suburbanite delivering goods from Iraq to Iran, said, "The verge closure has unauthentic everyone, rich and poor, and laborers."
Did Kurdish region became a support for Iranian people?
Even surpassing the US and Israel launched a war versus Iran, Iranian Kurds commonly crossed into Iraq's Kurdish region. They share deep familial, cultural, and economic ties, and the verge remains open, permitting for unfurled trade and regular movement.
The verge was sealed without the war. With the reopening, Iraq's Kurdish region has wilt a vital link to the outside world for Iranians trapped in the war-torn region.
One of the Iraqi Kurdish official said that, without a long wait, the crossing reopened from the Iranian side. The verge had been sealed due to rising regional military tensions.
Iraqi Kurdish officials had been waiting for their Iranian counterparts to reopen the crossing.
What is the ground reality of Iran?
While revealing the ground reality of Iran, one Iranian Kurds said that they fear for their safety and for retaliation from the Iranian intelligence agency.
They said that many Iranian military bases, intelligence offices, and other security sites have been destroyed. The bombing has moreover limited the movement of security forces. Officials have stopped going to government buildings and are now taking refuge in public places like schools and hospitals, or are simply moving virtually in vehicles instead of reporting to their offices.
Another person who returned without crossing the verge with two plastic tons full of groceries, said her children were waiting for her at home.
Another elderly woman, who was crossing the verge alone, said she had come from Sardasht, a municipality in Iran's West Azerbaijan province, and was now heading to Choman, a municipality in Iraq's Kurdish region, to find afar relatives she knew lived there and ask for help. It's well-nigh 40 kilometers from the border.
