Ruth Sherlock

He says he and his family have come to Turkey for shelter.

I also spoke with a doctor from Tehran who described the terror of being engulfed in smoke and feeling the backblast of a strike that hit close to her car on the journey out.

She says she's also witnessing many, many civilian casualties from these strikes.

You know, these are densely packed neighborhoods.

And she says residential buildings are also getting hit.

She's been treating civilians with horrific injuries, she says.

The Iranian Ministry of Health records 926 people killed in just these few days.

And despite all this, I saw a large number of people heading back into Iran.

Communications are largely down in the country and many people just said that they couldn't cope with not knowing if their families were okay and would rather be with them despite the danger.

Well, there's continued heavy bombardment by Israeli and US forces on Tehran and other cities.

And another thing we're watching closely is Iran's western border with Iraq.

Turkey and Iran are responding to reports that Iranian Kurdish militias have consulted with the United States in recent days about possible attacks against the Iranian regime.

Turkey is saying it's watching closely.

Iran is saying it's targeting what it called separatist militias in that region that it said intended to act against security forces there.

That's right.

You know, Iran's saying to the Gulf countries that it strikes against them.

They're actually aimed at hitting U.S.

military bases and assets there.

But the attacks are having this crippling effect on Gulf economies, and they've paralyzed the energy sector.

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani said,