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The nation of Iran has been carrying out executions, including of teenagers, as the U.S. and Israel wage war against the country, reports indicate.
In recent days, the focus has been on the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire, tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, and Israel’s continued strikes in Lebanon. But less attention has been paid to the people inside Iran,
Airstrikes pounded Tehran on Tuesday, and Iranian officials urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, hours before the expiration of U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest deadline for the Islamic Republic to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz or face punishing strikes on its infrastructure.
An anonymous Iranian woman detailed to The Australian the nightly explosions, celebrations and fear in Tehran as Trump's two-week ceasefire with Iran tentatively took hold.
As a tenuous truce takes hold after over a month of bombing, Iranians fear a wounded yet surviving regime will clamp down even more harshly on its opponents at home.
The fragile ceasefire agreement was tested again on Friday after Iran refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes in Lebanon, and Kuwait was attacked with drones.
At least 117 people have been killed since the start of the crisis, according to Iraqi health authorities. Those include civilians, members of the Iran-affiliated Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation Forces, US-allied Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, police and army.
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Ceasefire deal brings relief to some in Iran, but Trump’s threat to end a civilization still echoes
Iranians have welcomed a fragile ceasefire deal after weeks of Israeli and American bombardment, but many fear the war is far from over. For some, there is also a sense of whiplash, after President Donald Trump threatened to wipe out their civilization hours before he reversed course and agreed to an uneasy truce.
The edits on the X post left some questioning the message from the prime minister.
Three years ago, author Barry Hoffner traveled to Iran and found a starkly different experience than what Western media has long depicted. He breaks it down in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE.