Janet Jalil

His favorite news station is carrying interviews with people who say it's not going well, it's not going to order. So I think there isn't enough time for people not only to go through the price rises, which are absolutely certain to come, but to allow enough time to pass for the prices to come down, and then after that for people to forget.

What happened? I mean, we're talking six, seven months. I don't think that's a possibility. And what of Iran? Is it now the military that is in charge, in particular the IRGC, rather than the mullahs or the politicians? I think really all along, actually, it's been the IRGC that's run things. They make decisions.

The politicians will still front it. Khalibaf, the speaker of the majlis in Iran, the parliament, he seems to be, according to everybody, the person that's doing the talking.

And there are others, as President Pezeskin, who's the elected supposed leader of the country, who we don't even hear from. So I'm sure that it's the IRGC that are really running the thing. And

You know, if there are talks, proper face-to-face talks, which I actually rather doubt at some stage, then whichever civilian it is that makes some kind of agreement, if that's possible, which again I don't think it really is.

The most likely thing I think is that the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards would just simply say, not acceptable, not acceptable. They don't want a quick deal. They don't want to get out from under. That was, I think, President Trump's big misunderstanding. He thought that.

Ja se on se ongelma, jota aiemmin USA-presidentit ovat tehneet Irakissa ja Vietnässä.

In Vietnam in particular, yes, yes. It was Vietnam that the assumption that millions of tons of bombs just make people surrender. Well, I've seen it with my own eyes. It doesn't happen that way. And Gulf nations are furious with Iran for the attacks that it's carried out on them, but they're also reassessing their relationship with the U.S.,

Yes, they must do, because like with Europe, like with Britain, we know now that we can't absolutely 100% trust the US or whatever presidents empower what he says. And that's as important to the Gulf states as it is to Europe.

BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson. The UN says there are no longer any safe spaces for civilians to find refuge in Lebanon, even in the capital Beirut. More than a thousand people have been killed in the past four weeks of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah. From the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, here's our Middle East correspondent Hugo Beshega.

Lebanon is at breaking point. A country that has already suffered so much in recent years, on the verge, the UN says, of a major humanitarian crisis. More than a million people have been forced to flee their homes because of the war. That's nearly one in five of the population. Shelters are overcrowded and many, with nowhere to go, are now living in improvised tents in squares and public spaces. Dr. Sarah Nader is from Doctors Without Borders.

The city of Tyre has been a key target of airstrikes. There's the constant sound of Israeli warplanes and drones in the sky. Streets are empty, as most residents have left, but some are here to stay, like this man, Khaled Ottman.

Israel kertoo, että se yrittää vahvistaa itsenäisiä puolueita Hezbollah-attaksella. Monet lebanaiset huomioivat, että tämä voisi tarkoittaa toisen israelilaisen puolustuksen. Ja että moni puolustuseläinten ihmiset eivät koskaan voi mennä takaisin.

The Middle East conflict is being watched closely by Ukraine, which fears it will be forgotten by the world in its long-running battle against Russia's invasion. But, as our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams explains, the two wars are connected in other ways as well.

Nämä kaksi konflikta ovat erittäin liittyneitä siksi, että sillä on säännöllinen yhteistyö Iranin ja Ranskan välillä. Ja siksi Ukrainalainen presidentti Zelenskijä on edelleen Venäjällä. Hän on tehty sopimuksen Saudin kanssa ja puhuttu paljon Ukrainalaisista käsitteistä, joita he ovat oppineet käsittelemään Venäjän aerealaisia vaikeuksia viisi vuotta sitten.

One of the interesting things going on in the Gulf at the moment is that those Gulf states are using extremely expensive methods to shoot down rather inexpensive Iranian drones. Ukrainians have learned everything there is to know about that dilemma in the last four years, and they have made do with a whole series of ingenious solutions. And it is those solutions and the experts involved in developing them that President Zelensky has said he is willing to share with the Gulf countries.

He obviously would like to get something in return. He would like to make sure, for example, that he doesn't run out of those most expensive interceptor missiles that you just heard Marco Rubio being asked about. And of course, I think he's also keen to show that Ukraine is a reliable partner and can be looked at by other countries in other conflicts as having something to offer. This is all part of Ukraine wanting to be an ally to the West and to the West's

Kiitos.

Paul Adams. It's not just the Ukrainians joining the dots between the war in Iran and Russia's invasion of their country. The head of the German armed forces, General Carsten Breuer, has told the BBC that the threat from Russia has never been more urgent. He's overseeing a rapid expansion of Germany's military might to turn its armed forces into the most powerful conventional ones in Europe, as our special correspondent Alan Little reports.

Ensimmäistä kertaa nansin ajan jälkeen Ruotsissa on aina sotilaallinen puolustus.