Dhaka, June 18 -- Evacuating Bangladeshi citizens from Tehran to safer places in Iran gets underway as the Iranian capital has been under a blitzkrieg of Israeli airstrikes since Friday, officials in Dhaka said Tuesday.

Briefing the media on the evacuation move, Acting Foreign Secretary Md Ruhul Alam Siddique on the day said the current decision is that those who can remain safe by moving a certain distance away from Tehran should be relocated to safer areas.

He also informed that eight Bangladeshis who were inside the Radio Tehran building during the Israeli bombing on Monday remained unharmed.

"At this moment, there is no arrangement for leaving Iran. Air travel has been suspended, and though travel by land may be possible, it would ...