Tehran, June 16 -- "I woke up at 2:30 am on Friday to loud explosions and rushed to the basement. We haven't slept since," says Imtisal Mohidin, one of hundreds of Indian medical students stranded in Iran as Israeli strikes intensify across the country.

With blasts reported just a few kilometres from student hostels and apartments, fear is mounting - and so is the plea to the Government of India: evacuate us before it's too late.

Imtisal, a 22-year-old third-year MBBS student at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, says over 350 Indian students are currently enrolled in his university alone.

"We are stuck inside our apartment basement. We hear blasts every night. One of the explosions was just 5 km away. We haven't slept in three days...