‘The scale of war is getting bigger’: joy turns to worry for Iranian Australians cut off from family

Ehsan Hakimi, who has lived in Sydney for 12 years, has been unable to contact his parents or brother during the US-Israel war on Iran. Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

In a social media video, Ehsan Hakimi watches Iranians wade through rubble in the neighbourhood of Tehran he grew up in.

He sees the aftermath of an airstrike in the residential area of Narmak – where the former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was known to have lived – from the first few days of the US-Israel war on Iran.