Bengal mountaineer pleads to cross Iran border by road

Relentless sounds of explosions from Israeli war machines especially at night and sights of thick black smoke billowing from targets that have been hit in Teheran visible from his hotel window during the day, have only added to Dey’s anguish and anxiety

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Forty-year-old Falguni Dey has barely slept during the last six nights. Stuck inside a hotel room in central Tehran, the assistant professor at Women’s Christian College in south Kolkata and a mountaineer by passion, Dey is currently at his wit’s end in figuring out how to return home.

Relentless sounds of explosions from Israeli war machines especially at night and sights of thick black smoke billowing from targets that have been hit in Teheran visible from his hotel window during the day, have only added to Dey’s anguish and anxiety.

With no respite currently in sight and money running out quickly, the now-desperate adventure sports enthusiast is mulling a dangerous bid to escape Iran via the land route and cross over to an adjacent country like Turkey, Armenia Azerbaijan, Afghanistan or even Pakistan.

“I had no intention of staying in Teheran for so long and I barely have money left with me to sustain at this hotel where I am stuck. I can’t fetch money from home since banks here are closed. I am the only Indian in my hotel and I have no evacuation promises from the Indian government so far.”