Sarah Namjoo

As you mentioned the Iranian foreign minister is in Istanbul today as Turkey is trying to mediate between Iran and the United States. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Harakhti said that Iran is prepared to resume the talks with the United States, but that talk should be fair as he said and as he put it and should not include Iran.

Iran's defense capability. And he repeated that Iran is ready to negotiate to reduce the tensions in the Middle East. And he was in a joint conference with the Turkish foreign ministry. And he also said that diplomacy is their priority.

In recent days Iran's neighbors, neighboring country in the Middle East, they've been trying to increase their efforts for diplomatic negotiation and kind of to mediate between Iran and the U.S. and to lower the tensions.

He put it in his latest remark. He said that he wants Iran to stop nuclear activities and also killing the protesters. He also said that the US officials are in touch with the Iranian officials. People, I can say that in Iran they are looking at all these diplomatic efforts and also military built up very anxiously. They don't know what is going to happen next.

And also President Trump has so far proved that he is unpredictable. We don't know what the US next step would be, but we are seeing that increasing diplomatic effort is that Iran doesn't want this war to start. And those protests that were crushed earlier this month, what do we know now about how many people were killed?

Actually, as you've been reporting on the internet shutdown in Iran, it's very difficult to come up with an exact number of people and protesters who've been killed. The number that we currently have and human rights groups are reporting is even up to 17,000 people, and some other groups are putting it up to 30,000. It's very difficult to come up with an exact figure, but the situation is really worrying. We are still having difficulties reporting.

Sarah Namjoo. China has lifted sanctions on a group of British parliamentarians during a visit by the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

They don't want them to send videos and footage.

to the international media.

And in the past, we've seen when the Internet is down, the shutdown kind of escalate and the government intensify the crackdown.

We are receiving kind of a few videos from the capital and other city, mostly the capital, because I think people have more access to potentially a Starlink device.

or other source of communication, but it's very, very limited.