Emily Fang

He's planning to go back to Iran where he's afraid of being arrested for speaking with foreign media.

in attacking Iran's government.

But people, including him, have said he's accepted he might die as well from this bombing.

And when he said that to me, he paused, Scott.

Like he almost couldn't believe what he was saying out loud because like so many Iranians we met, he feels really torn.

There are people who are against the bombing, and we met some of these Iranians yesterday.

But many Iranians tell us that while it is anguishing for them to see innocent civilians killed, it is even more anguishing for them to live under the current regime.

So the problem is there is a near total communications blackout in Iran.

We've been able to speak to some Iranians in and out of the country.

They tell us they're experiencing total uncertainty and thus fear about where these strikes are going to fall.

Human rights groups have counted a range of civilian deaths.

On the lower end, around 600 civilians killed to over 1,300 civilians killed yesterday.

according to another estimate.

That's closer to the more recent death toll reported by the Iranian Red Crescent.

But these updates are really sporadic, and so it's challenging, Scott, to know the full scale of civilian deaths in Iran.

People, and this might be surprising to listeners, people are still trying to live life as normal.

But the country is heavily securitized.

Five Iranians we spoke to this week said there were a ton of new checkpoints run by the Basij paramilitary group in Iran.

Israel says it is striking dozens of these new checkpoints.

But those strikes, they're killing security officials.