Andrew Peach

Next to Iran.

The sounds there from a second day of anti-government protests by Iranian students at several universities.

Shame on you, shame on you, they're chanting.

The first rallies to take place on a scale like this since January's deadly crackdown by the authorities, which saw thousands of people killed.

It comes as tension continues to mount between Iran and the US over its nuclear programme.

The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said he believes there's still a chance that dispute could be solved diplomatically based on a win-win game.

He told US television he'd probably meet with President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff in Geneva on Thursday.

We continue our negotiation.

At the same time, we are working on the elements of a deal and a draft of the text.

So I hope that when we get there, we are prepared to talk and negotiate on those drafts.

Mr Aragchi also repeated his insistence that Iran's nuclear enrichment programme wasn't up for negotiation.

President Trump has given Tehran little more than a week to strike a deal or face military action.

In Iran, the students who gathered at numerous universities over the weekend at the start of a new semester did so to honour those killed last month.

I spoke to BBC Persian's Barman Karbassi and put it to Barman that anyone going out on the streets of Iran to protest must be pretty brave.

And that's putting it mildly.

I mean, we are looking at just around 45 days ago where tens of thousands of people were killed or injured, many more arrested, some of them getting execution sentences, death sentences, awaiting executions.

So the environment that this regime has created is one of instilling as much fear as one can possibly imagine.

And despite it all, we've seen elite universities across the country coming out in force, students chanting against the supreme leader, even holding up the historic flag of Iran and demanding the end of this regime directly.

chanting against a supreme leader repeatedly these are the scenes that just indicates that nothing this government has done this month and a half has really changed the calculus of a population okay well i guess that's if the protesters represent the population the protesters certainly want a change of government do you think that the wider iranian population is in support of that

Absolutely.