As Middle East strife intensifies, Indian students in Iran’s Isfahan face mounting peril, their voices rising in a video appeal for India’s help. Fatima, from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, speaks for 25-30 trapped classmates seeking safe transfer or repatriation.
Studies anchored them: unmissable coursework, assessments, rotations. The university’s pivot to virtual learning for juniors opens escape routes, with in-person exams slated for April. Final-year students remain chained to daily clinical obligations.
Authorities preach dorm lockdown yet push hostel swaps, sowing disorder. Off-site lodgers endure scarcity—no shops, no apps, no streets. They trade essentials communally, connectivity woes amplifying family anguish across borders.
Proximity blasts have turned apprehension to terror. ‘Insecurity blankets everything,’ she lamented. Indian relatives, news-devouring and distraught, echo the cry for immediate official response to shield these students from impending threats.