Arash Ghaderi can’t forget the moment his wife tearfully woke him up to tell him a war had just started.
Ghaderi, a 35-year-old PhD student at the University of Alberta, and his wife travelled last month to Iran to visit their family members. The couple was still there when the conflict between Israel and Iran broke out on June 13.
“(On) the very first day of the war, we heard some bombings and we heard the jets flying low to the ground. It was so terrifying,” he said in an interview.
“My wife’s family members, her nieces and nephews, were there and they were crying …The noise was so horrifying,” he said of their experience in Zanjan, a city located about 300 kilometres northwest of Tehran….