Scores of students from Jammu and Kashmir pursuing skilled programs in Iran have been reportedly shifted from capital Tehran to safer areas on Monday (June 16, 2025). However, anxious parents are fearful in regards to the students who’re learning in different cities of Iran, which is going through a serious aerial assault from Israel over the previous 4 days.
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With communication traces, particularly Internet 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 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, learning in a varsity in Tehran, was additionally shifted to Qom previously 12 hours. “She said the place is relatively calm compared to Tehran. She was not able to sleep in Tehran in the face of Israeli attacks. They were later shifted in buses. The Internet is slow and we only manage to message them. I appeal to the Government of India and the J&K government to find out a way to evacuate all of them,” Mr. Ali mentioned.
Several students learning in varsities in Tehran advised their parents over the cellphone that they heard loud explosions in Tehran on June 15 and couldn’t sleep due to the menace of Israeli missiles hitting the varsities.
No evacuation in Sheraz
Meanwhile, the daddy of a scholar from Nawa Kadal, Srinagar, advised the household that the students learning in different cities like Sheraz weren’t being evacuated but.
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the J&Ok Students Association mentioned the students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University and Iran University of Medical Sciences have been “successfully relocated on Monday”.
‘Situation rapidly deteriorating’
One estimate instructed round 600 students from Kashmir have been shifted to safer areas in Qom. Nasir Khuehami, nationwide convenor of the affiliation, mentioned: “Many students are enrolled in colleges and universities located dangerously close to key military installations and strategic targets. Students have reported hearing airstrike sirens, experiencing tremors, and observing intensified military activity in their surroundings. The situation has deteriorated rapidly since last night, and some students are even in cities where direct Israeli airstrikes have already occurred,” he mentioned.
A police spokesperson in Srinagar urged locals that if any students, employees, or people from Srinagar district are presently stranded in Iran due to the prevailing scenario there and require help, they or their relations might kindly attain out to the District Police, Srinagar for help and help. “The collected information will be compiled and forwarded to the concerned authorities for appropriate and timely action,” the police mentioned.
Published – June 16, 2025 09:56 pm IST
