Rahul Tandon

Because that's going to have a huge impact, isn't it, on small businesses who use social media, but not just them, to all sectors of the economy, even the banking system.

So we've identified the economic challenges that are now facing Iran, and they will increase if this ceasefire does not hold.

But Iranians have been facing economic challenges way before this war started.

That is because of the impacts of sanctions and now the added pressure of a potential blockade restricting trade and oil exports.

Let's hear some more messages from Iran that have been coming into our Persian service.

You get a sense there of how difficult life is economically for so many people there.

So how is Iran going to rebuild its economy when this war ends?

Here's Esfandia once again.

He believes that it can only be achieved if sanctions are removed.

So do you think that the Iranian authorities are looking at the economy and thinking...

Right.

We need to have the sanctions removed if we want to rebuild, but also we need to generate some revenue from somewhere.

So that's why they want to control the Straits of Hormuz and also why they want to tax ships travelling through it.

This is a very fluid situation.

We don't know what's going to happen next.

We don't know if sanctions relief is going to come.

But even if it does...

As we heard earlier in this edition, Iran needs at least $100 billion to rebuild from this war, could be a lot more than that.

Where is that money going to come from?

And I suppose a final key question for you is, if the Iranian authorities cannot get this economy back on track, and we've already seen this year huge protests, haven't we, on the streets, and we know that the bazaaris, the influential traders in Tehran, are extremely upset by the economic situation that they're facing.