Direct reports from event eyewitnesses
Footage circulating online shows a surveillance drone resembling a bird of prey, such as an eagle, spotted over Iran.
Video circulating online claims to show a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet being engaged by an Iranian surface-to-air missile over Chabahar in southern Iran on Wednesday; the authenticity of the video could not be independently verified, but the event reportedly occurred according to other sources.
A video published by Vahid Online on Wednesday, April 5, shows air defense activity in the border city of Taybad, located in northeast Iran near the Afghanistan border.
Videos sent to Iran International show explosions at multiple locations during the Chaharshanbeh Chaharshanbeh Chaharshanbeh Farvardin campaign in Astan Khorasan Razavi.
An online video from Mashhad shows flames and stones following an explosion near the city at 21:15 on Friday, February 5. The incident occurred in northeastern Iran.
Video footage received shows flames and columns of smoke from explosions at multiple locations in Mashhad, northeast Iran, following attacks that occurred at 21:15 on Thursday, 5 Farvardin.
Video footage received by Iran International and reports from residents in Mashhad indicate multiple explosions from Israeli and American attacks on regime positions in the city.
In the Chitgar neighborhood of Tehran, security forces fired at the windows of apartments from which anti-government slogans were heard, while a concurrent gathering supporting the government took place in the same complex with the presence of officers.
Hamid Resai, a hardline parliamentarian in Iran, called citizens who share footage of war-torn areas with foreign media "ferocious animals" and "criminal mercenaries," demanding immediate trials and public executions. State media, including Fars News Agency, have published images of forced confessions from these individuals, showing security forces raiding homes during Nowruz to intimidate and extract confessions.
A viewer of Iran International displayed a video showing their Haft-Seen table for the Persian New Year adorned with images of martyrs from Iran's national revolution.
On the morning of Farvardin 5, 2585 (corresponding to April 25, 2026), an explosion occurred in Kamalshahr, Karaj, Iran, with reports indicating that a specific target in the area was attacked.
Video footage sent to Iranian International shows that after an explosion in the Shariq and Khiyaban neighborhood of Damavand, Tehran, a doodle appeared in the sky.
