Mahan Ghafari: I don’t have the words to describe what it feels like to watch my home city of Tehran and the neighbourhoods I haven’t seen in almost a decade, now burning on the news. Then getting messages from family and friends asking where it’s safest to flee, with empty pockets and no fuel to escape.

I don’t have the words to describe what it feels like to watch my home city of Tehran and the neighbourhoods I haven’t seen in almost a decade, now burning on the news. Then getting messages from family and friends asking where it’s safest to flee, with empty pockets and no fuel to escape.