Siavash Ardalan

What we've been hearing has been just limited to news that the air defenses have been activated. We don't know exactly which parts of Tehran have taken a hit after other strikes that Israel carried out hours before in Tehran and the areas surrounding it. Unlike the previous round, Iranians this time have been much more cautious in taking videos and publishing videos of points of impact or where

Israel, tai sillä tapauksessa Yhdysvallat, on tullut hyvin erilaisena dissipliiniin kuin arabilaiset alueet ja alueet. Mutta kuten olemme kuulleet, se ei ole vain Teheran, vaan myös toiset suurimmat kaupungit, Esfahan ja Tabriz.

These were not urban areas, but apparently military bases. The only place where it could be considered civilian is Israel's targeting of Iran's petrochemical industry in the city of Moshar in Khuzestan. Now that was an area where Iran responded in kind by saying that it targeted the petrochemical installations in the city of Haifa.

Heavy on details than what the CENTCOM communique had said in terms of the sequence of event and the casualties and so on. The RGC said that they fired upon a U.S. aircraft and a drone and then they shot down another U.S. drone. But again, no details on casualty figures or the sequence of events or to what extent damage was inflicted on either side. So you have really competing narratives with each one framing their action as a reaction to the other side's aggression.

Katar on nyt, yhdessä kuin Pakistan, tekemässä mediatiivinen rooli. Yksi syy siitä on se, että Katar nyt pysyvät suurin osa Iranin kiinnostuneista aseista. Suurin osa näistä negosiaatioista, joista Iran on kiinnostunut, on saanut Yhdysvallan Katarin vähentämään nämä rahoja ja laittamaan Iranin avaamiseen niille.

But the figures, we're not exactly sure. Some people are talking about $6 billion, some people $12 billion and some people $24 billion. So we don't know exactly how much Iran is supposed to get in the initial phase of these talks, which sees a ceasefire for 60 days and then moves on to the more sticky issues.

No, we haven't heard much from the Iranian people themselves recently, but there was talk that the internet was going to be switched back on today. Is that going to happen? There was a lot of hopes yesterday after a presidential body called the Organization for Cyberspace said that it held a meeting and upon President Pesesh Gyan's orders,

Asked the authorities to open up the international internet. But then today the judiciary stepped in following calls from hardliners. What are you doing? Who said that you have to open the internet? Still we have security issues and so on. The judiciary came and said, well, this body, this presidential body, there's a lot of legal ambiguity about its status. So it basically suspended it. And that's all we know for now.

When I opened the balcony door, the blast was so powerful, it threw me back.

In the early days of the war, the missile strikes were few.

Now they come in waves, the bombs and missiles falling in quick succession, one after another.

Sivash, to you first of all. As I say, we're into the third straight week of this. From the fragments of information that's coming in, what can you tell us? The main fragment of information that came out was a video clip, a very heart-wrenching and horrific image of people at a mortuary outside Tehran, the capital, where hundreds of bodies were piled upon each other and relatives or families of these people searching for their loved ones. Now, we hadn't

known the scale of the killings until this video had come out. And then from the fragments of information we're getting from people via Starlink sending us messages telling us the grim atmosphere right now prevailing in Tehran and other cities after that massive crackdown. Everyone knows someone who has been killed. So the situation is one that you would associate with the serious civil war or with Gaza today in Iran for the authorities to quell one of the biggest protests that took place over the past years.

Well, on the first day of the protest he had the government saying that they recognize this protest because it was a strike by shopkeepers that come out in the streets protesting against inflation and the way that the currency market works, which is really to their detriment. And then, as the pattern usually is, it morphed into something different.

Kiitos, että katsoitte.

The crackdown turned very violent and the protests turned very massive. The rioters became armed terrorists trained by the Mossad and by the CIA to sow discord inside the country. And now with these high numbers of deaths that have emerged ever since this crackdown, what the government is saying that most of these people who have been killed are the security forces and innocent private citizens killed by the protesters, which the government calls terrorists.

President Trump warned that he will intervene if the regime starts killing protesters. Now, some protesters were trusting that warning, thinking that if they go out to the street, they will be protected by the United States, somehow believing that the US has an actionable plan to prevent a crackdown.

Tämä ei todennäköisesti tapahtunut. Regime ei kuitenkaan välttämättä huomannut presidentin huolta ja meni eteenpäin ja käsitteli yksi suurimmista taitoista viime vuonna. Eli paljon ihmisiä voi olla vahvistunut presidentin huolta. Nyt, kun taitoja on tapahtunut, kysymys on, onko protesterit vaikuttaneet joillekin regime-muutokseen.

Presidentin puheenjohtaja sanoi, että iranilaiset haluavat meidät keskustella. Me voimme keskustella niiden kanssa, mutta myös heidät. Hän ei kuitenkaan sano, että hän on menossa regime-muutokseen. Hän ei kuitenkaan sano, että hän ei käy Iraniin. Monet protesterit toivovat, että se liittyy regime-muutokseen. Toiset ovat vain miettineet prospektin, että se on yksi kriisi ja sitten toinen.

Absolutt. They have their own scenarios in mind. They initially had warned that Iran might even carry out preemptive strikes in anticipation of an Israeli or a U.S. attack. But today Iran's foreign minister ruled that out, yet said we're very ready for a war, even more ready than we were back in June when Israel attacked Iran.