Caroline Hawley

He'd warned America not to attack, saying Iran was not a nation that would surrender.

Professor Ali Ansari says Ayatollah Khamenei was a true believer to the end in the Islamic revolution.

He was the longest-serving ruler in the Middle East, hardline defender of the Islamic Republic, at a huge cost to his people, who increasingly wanted a different kind of rule.

Oh, he's on!

Back up!

Go that way!

This urgent meeting was meant to send a message and a warning to Iran's leaders that the world is watching.

Mr Turk said its security forces had used excessive, unnecessary and disproportionate force, firing live ammunition at demonstrators.

Specific facts are hard to verify, he told the chamber, because of the continuing communications shutdown and because UN investigators have no access to the country.

But they are already gathering evidence that it's hoped could one day be used by international courts.

Mr Turk told me the Iranian authorities had to end what he called their brutal repression.

The regime continues to blame the unrest and deaths on terrorists and rioters.

Iran's representative at the meeting in Geneva said his government didn't recognise the legitimacy of the session and then, once his short speech was over, he promptly walked out.

But a former UN prosecutor said what had happened at the hands of the regime was the worst mass murder in the contemporary history of Iran.

and he gave an account of one family who searched for three days for their son, finally finding him in a body bag, peppered with bullets but alive.

He'd apparently played dead to survive.

Caroline, is this the biggest threat to the Islamic Republic since its inception? It's certainly a huge threat and they have responded in kind. They clearly felt that they are fighting for their life. They, as you know, have blamed this on rioters inspired by Donald Trump and Israel. But we've had many cycles of unrest before and uprisings.

There was 2009 over disputed elections, 2019 over fuel prices, 2022 of course over women's rights and after the death in custody of a young woman, Massa Amini, who was accused of not wearing her hijab properly. And then these began on December the 28th as an economic protest. But it very, very quickly spiraled into people expressing their anger over everything.

Kaikki, mitä he välttävät islamisen republikaan ja heidän ekonomisen, poliittisen ja sosiaalisen ongelmansa. Ja luulen, että se, mikä on erilainen tämän ajan, on se, että iranian regiumi on yhdessä ja ulkopuolella vahvistettu. Se on vahvistettu vuoden jälkeen, kun Israel vahvisti Yhdysvallojen nukleusasioita.

Joten se on ollut suuri vaikutus islamilaisille, ja he ovat käyttäneet, mitä minulle on sanottu, todella epäonnistuneen vahvistuksen, jotta pystyisivät hallitsemaan kaupungit. Se on tullut erittäin pahalta Iranilaisille. Emme tiedä, kuten Siavash sanoi, täysin kuvan, koska olemme vain saamassa pieniä osia jigsauksella.