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🚢Hormuz Never Fully Closed. It Was Filtered. From April 13 to April 21, about 10.7 million barrels of Iranian crude still moved through the strait, according to Vortexa. The flow included 35 transits involving Iranian or sanctioned-linked vessels, with 19 tankers leaving the Gulf, 15 entering toward Iran, and exported cargo worth roughly $910 million. That matters because the corridor was not shut. It was narrowed, priced, and selectively managed. The U.S. was not sealing Hormuz itself. It was operating across a wider maritime belt stretching up to 300 miles between the Iran-Pakistan border and Oman’s western boundary. Iran’s tanker network adapted by using disabled transponders and shadow-fleet methods to keep part of the oil stream alive. This is what modern blockade looks like. Not total stoppage. Controlled friction. Enough pressure to raise the cost, not enough control to stop every barrel. Iran did not preserve normal trade. It preserved sanctioned trade under concealment. The result is simple: Washington can choke throughput. Tehran can still monetize opacity. The strait stays open on paper and contested in practice. #Washington#Tehran#Hormuz#Iran#Oil 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Once again, Washington and Tehran are at the negotiating table over the latter’s nuclear pursuits, just as they were under Presidents George Bush, Obama, and Biden. That could bolster Iranian hopes that, once again, they will be able to drag out talks, outsmart US negotiators, and cut a deal that keeps their nuclear infrastructure in place—especially with Trump facing all the domestic and international pressures mentioned above. While Iranian intransigence at the recent talks in Islamabad convinced Washington to impose the blockade, Trump said talks will likely resume in the coming days, and both sides are preparing for a second round. Tehran clearly knows what it wants—to maintain its nuclear program one way or the other—but the same may not be true about Washington. The president previously demanded that Iran scrap its nuclear program altogether and “commit never to pursue nuclear weapons.” But, in Islamabad, the two sides were haggling over the length of a time-limited “suspension” of nuclear activity. Now, the president has disavowed the US offer and reiterated his maximalist demand. This sort of fluctuation could further buoy Iranian confidence. As for the blockade, Tehran may have reason to wonder about America’s staying power and the practical difficulties of patrolling the seas. US Naval forces are reportedly enforcing the blockade not in the Strait but in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, which “reduces the risk of Iranian attacks against the US Navy” but leaves “all the energy infrastructure in the Gulf…vulnerable.” US military officials say no ships from Iranian ports moved through the blockade in the first 24 hours, but reports suggest that some Iran-linked ships, including a US-sanctioned Chinese tanker, passed through the Strait despite the blockade. Whether Washington will risk a military confrontation with Beijing, especially as Trump prepares to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month, is an open question. Moreover, maintaining the blockade may prove challenging even without the risk of such a confrontation. To avoid detection, ships are starting to go dark or falsify their origin or destination—as Russia has done to great effect with its “shadow fleet” following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of Western sanctions. To be clear, an effective US blockade over time would severely cripple, if not destroy, Iran’s increasingly troubled economy. But the blockade will impose some costs on the United States as well. So, who will hang tough, Washington or Tehran? #washington#tehran#war#iran#trump 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump Took Umbrage With Tehran: Who Will Hang Tough? 🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ With its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz now in place, Washington faces the twin challenge of maintaining it in the face of domestic and global pressures, and of convincing Tehran that—despite the stop-and-go nature of US action so far in the war—it has the intestinal fortitude to do so. To be sure, the United States has the military resources to impose devastating costs on Iran’s economy, which was already teetering before the war began in late February and which continues to decline. The question is whether Washington can withstand the blowback at home and abroad. At home, Americans have increasingly soured on the economy, the war with Iran is ever-more unpopular, Trump’s poll numbers are sinking, and the upcoming midterm elections could well cost Republicans their congressional majority. A continuing blockade and the higher gas prices it could bring would likely increase political pressure on Trump to end the conflict before Washington has achieved its goals. Abroad, no Western ally has yet answered the president’s request to help with the blockade, regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia is urging him to reverse course to reduce the risk that Iran will “disrupt other important shipping routes” through which Riyadh exports oil, and he’s feuding over the war not only with allies but also with such influential figures as Pope Leo XIV, thereby risking support from “crucial Catholic swing voters.” The Islamic Republic is clearly vulnerable. Before the war, as a result of decades of economic mismanagement and global sanctions, inflation in the Islamic Republic was approaching 70 % while the rial had lost 80 % of its value over the last decade. Now, by preventing all ships from entering or leaving Iranian ports, the US blockade can prohibit Iran’s regime from exporting oil or importing gasoline, deny it the funds to finance its terrorist proxies, and prevent China and Russia from supplying it with missiles. With more than 90 % of its trade passing through the Persian Gulf, the stranglehold on exports and imports could cost Tehran an estimated $435 million per day, or $13 billion per month, in “economic damage.” But will Washington hang tough? Tehran may be skeptical, given a half-century of US-Iranian relations, shifting American goals during the war, and early signals from the White House about the nature of the blockade. #washington#tehran#war#iran#trump 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤2️⃣ The attack on the bridge was one of several confirmed attacks in Iran this week, despite the difficulty of getting unsanctioned information out of the country, where the internet has been shut down by the authorities. Footage of a major strike earlier this week on a missile base in the city of Isfahan was confirmed on Thursday as genuine, with fiery plumes and secondary explosions filmed from a nearby car, whose driver expresses surprise at the scale of the attack. Isfahan is also where Iran is thought to have moved some or all of its 440kg stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, which in theory could be used to make 10 nuclear bombs if it could be enriched to 90% if Tehran still had the technology available. There has been speculation in the US that Trump has considered a high-risk airborne raid to seize the radioactive material from its underground storage – though the president said late on Wednesday that it was buried so deeply that “I don’t care”. Though most observers took Trump at his word, the US president has in the past engaged in misdirection. On 28 February, the US and Israel attacked and killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several associates at a point when negotiations over a new nuclear deal were thought to bear fruit. Iran also said the Pasteur medical institute in Tehran was hit on Thursday. Israel said it had struck a headquarters used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to finance armed proxies across the Middle East the day before. Iran said it would conduct “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks in the future. The war would continue until the “permanent regret and surrender” of Iran’s enemies, said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters. Iran, however, has suffered far more than the US and Israel, in more than 15,000 bombing raids since the start of the war. At least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of the war, according to a rough estimate by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Oil prices jumped by 7% a barrel to $108 as there appeared to be no immediate sign of the conflict ending. Guterres, the UN secretary general, warned that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications as he called for an end to the fighting. #iran#trump#bridge#tehran#karaj 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump Claimed To Destroy Iran’s Largest Bridge. What’s Next? 🔤🔤🔤🔤1️⃣ Trump claimed responsibility for destroying Iran’s largest bridge, a day after he threatened to bomb the country “back to the stone ages” if a deal to end the five-week-long war he started was not reached. The US president shared footage of part of the newly built 136 metre-high $400m B1 suspension bridge between Tehran and Karaj collapsing dramatically on to the causeway below amid a rising plume of black smoke. Eight people were killed and 95 wounded, according to Karaj, Iran’s state media. The middle of the bridge was struck twice. Later imagery showed a clear gap at the heart of what had been one of Iran’s premier infrastructure projects. “The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again,” the US president posted on the Truth Social website, and he warned there would be “much more to follow” if a settlement was not reached. It was not clear if the bridge was being used by civilians at the time, though there appeared to be a lorry on one side of the bridge. One video appeared to show a projectile hitting the span where there was already damage. A day earlier, in a primetime speech Trump had declared the war the US and Israel launched on Iran on 28 February was a success “nearing completion”, and that the US would “very shortly” achieve nearly all its strategic objectives. But in his White House address, the president also repeated a threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, potentially cutting off electricity to millions of people. “We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said. He doubled down on that threat in a social media post after the bridge strike. #iran#trump#bridge#tehran#karaj 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔠🅰️🔠🔠2️⃣ Some cynics also note that the president’s pause will last throughout the trading week on global markets. With stock futures tumbling and oil prices soaring coming out of the weekend, was he simply seeking to stitch a cushion of market stability? It wouldn’t be the first time that official statements seemed aimed at taming volatility. And it worked again: The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all rose over 1% Monday, while Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell 11%. US drivers will hope for a break at the gasoline pumps. Trump may want to buy time for another reason: The US forces that might give him the option to invade Kharg Island — the epicenter of Iran’s oil industry and a vital economic hub — or to occupy islands and coastal regions in the Strait are not yet fully assembled. One US Marine Expeditionary Unit that deployed from Japan may reach the region soon. But a second only set off from the West Coast last week. It’s also worth remembering that Trump loves hyperbole. Experience suggests that his hyping of diplomatic progress and claims Iran “badly” wants a deal may be overstatements — even if deliberate deception is sometimes a tool statesmen use to create space for breakthroughs. The president’s wild gyrations that had him talking about “winding down” the war one day and escalating it the next were incompatible with the traditions of stable war leadership. But they were quintessential Trump. By Monday, it all looked like a ruse to allow him to argue his hard-man tactics had forged diplomatic progress. This unpredictability and tendency to try to mitigate his self-created crises is familiar from Trump’s personal life and his business and political career, as well as his multiple scrapes with the justice system. Each day often unfolds as a quest to remain standing by nightfall. With this technique, Trump delays reckonings and defers the worst consequences of his actions in an endless improvisational dance. Yet there’s a sobering possibility that Trump’s erratic method may be tested beyond its limits in the Persian Gulf. Iran might be outgunned by the US and Israeli assault and suffering extremely heavy losses to its naval, air and land-based assets during a war that has wiped out senior members of the Islamic clerical regime. But as the conflict enters a fourth week, it’s also demonstrated its own leverage after effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz and holding the global economy — and Republican political hopes in November — hostage. Logic suggests a regime that was already ultra-radical before the war is unlikely to be more open to Trump’s demands after the killing of its supreme leader and enduring an onslaught from US and Israeli missiles and jets. Trump’s terms for ending the war — likely to include Iran renouncing its nuclear program and long-range ballistic missiles — may be deal-breakers. That’s because the last three weeks show exactly why a rogue regime might decide to pursue such insurance policies against future attacks by foreign powers. Even if talks do open — and Pakistan has offered to hold them — it’s not clear who would be negotiating for Iran. A regime that has decentralized authority and lost key figures may struggle to make collective decisions. And if, as some experts believe, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are now in full control, it might be even more hardline than before. Moreover, in the past Washington has spoken to relatively moderate Iranian officials, only to find more radical figures set against compromise. It also would not be surprising if Iran’s leaders interpret the president’s reversals, contradictions and emotional social media posts as signs that their strategy of imposing economic consequences on Trump is working. #trump#frustrated#tehran#guard#corps#israel 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump Had Grown Frustrated With Tehran: the War Is Not Over 🔠🅰️🔠🔠1️⃣ Wars, unlike illegal tariffs, cannot be switched on and off to meet a president’s whims or to permanently shore up free-falling markets. So the key question following President Donald Trump’s suspension of threatened strikes against Iran’s power plants is not whether he’s had another TACO (“Trump always chickens out”) moment. It’s whether Trump can get out of his war on Iran, even if he wants to. After days of oscillating rhetoric, Trump signaled a first potential de-escalation in the conflict Monday, when he cited 15 points of agreement in what he said were productive talks with Iran. Tehran said there’d been no dialogue. The most hopeful spin on the latest developments is that US and Iran have both reached a point where the cost of climbing the escalation ladder would be so horrific that both need a way out. Such epiphanies can begin to end wars. An oil tanker sits anchored as the traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz in Muscat, Oman, on March 10. Trump had dragged the enemies to the brink by threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants if it didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for oil exports. Tehran had promised to retaliate by torching vital infrastructure in US-allied Gulf states. The conflagration could have set off a global recession and worsened dire humanitarian conditions for the very Iranian civilians Trump pledged to help. But there are many reasons for skepticism that a breakthrough is imminent. Days of erratic, contradictory rhetoric from Trump and the administration’s inability to cite a consistent rationale for the war or to plot an exit strategy mean that any single US statement lacks credibility. The president’s habit of bombing during his own deadlines in Iran mean no one would be surprised if he broke his own five-day moratorium on striking the country’s power plants. #trump#frustrated#tehran#guard#corps#israel 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ This is a fluid situation, and speculation about meetings should not be deemed as final until they are formally announced by the White House.” Oman, Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan have all been reported to have been involved in efforts to broker an end to hostilities in recent days, but it is unclear how substantial or productive such contacts have been. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, said on Monday that Oman was working hard to secure safe passage through the strait of Hormuz. Keir Starmer told a parliamentary committee on Monday that the UK was aware discussions were happening. The EU chief, Ursula von der Leyen, called for an immediate end to hostilities, describing a “critical” situation for energy supply chains globally. “We all feel the knock-on effects on gas and oil prices on our businesses and our societies,” von der Leyen said on Tuesday, on a visit to Australia. “It is of utmost importance that we come to a solution that is negotiated, and this puts an end to the hostilities that we see in the Middle East,” she added. In reaction to the intensifying energy crisis, Japan said it will release another part of its strategic oil reserves from Thursday, and will tap into joint stockpiles held by producing nations in the country by the end of the month. Early on Tuesday, state-run Iranian media reported another round of missiles fired at Israel, and rescue services in Israel showed images of a damaged building in the north but reported no casualties. Lebanese state media said Israel carried out seven air raids on south Beirut overnight. In all his comments, Trump declined to say with whom the US was speaking in Iran. “We’re dealing with the man who, I believe, is the most respected and the ‘leader’. It’s a little tough – we’ve wiped out everybody,” Trump said, stating only that the US had not talked to current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. A senior Iranian official told Reuters the US had requested a meeting with Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, but that the supreme national security council had yet to decide on any proposed talks and Iran had yet to respond. Qalibaf himself described “fake news (…) used to manipulate the financial and oil markets”. The Fars news agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), had earlier also denied any talks, saying there were neither direct nor indirect communications with the US. Iran’s IRGC said they were launching fresh attacks on US targets, and described Trump’s words as “psychological operations” that were “worn out” and having no impact on Tehran’s fight. The Iranian state news agency Irna quoted a foreign ministry spokesperson as saying “friendly countries” had sent messages indicating that the US wanted talks to end the war but none had taken place. Iran has been defiant in the face of Trump’s threats and more than three weeks of the joint US-Israeli offensive. In response to Sunday’s ultimatum, Tehran threatened to target power plants supplying US bases across the Middle East, vital desalination facilities in Gulf countries, and to intensify strikes on Israel. #tehran#iran#israel#trump#hormuz#operation 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Epic Bluff: Trump’s Iranian Campaign Seems To Be Doomed to Failure 🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Trump has claimed there have been talks between the US and Iran over the past day in which the two sides had “major points of agreement”, appearing to avert a potentially severe escalation of the conflict. Tehran has denied the claim, in which Trump also speculated that a deal could soon be done to end the war. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said no talks had been held with the US since the bombing campaign began 24 days ago. Trump’s threat at the weekend to “hit and obliterate” Iran’s power stations and energy infrastructure if Tehran did not allow shipping to move freely through the strait of Hormuz, and Iran’s threat to destroy infrastructure across the Middle East in retaliation, had raised fears of a deepening conflict and global economic crisis. In a flurry of presidential announcements on Monday, Trump first posted on social media that he had extended his deadline by five days, saying the US and Iran had held “very good and productive conversations” in recent days, then told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida, that his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and close aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner had held “very, very strong talks” with the Iranians a day earlier. Later on Monday, Trump played up the chances of a deal, saying: “We’re giving it five days and then we’re going to see where that takes us. And I would say at the end of this period, I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody.” A European official said that while there had been no direct negotiations between the two nations, Egypt, Pakistan and Gulf states were relaying messages. A Pakistani official and a second source told Reuters that direct talks on ending the war could be held in Islamabad this week. The Pakistani official said Vance, as well as Witkoff and Kushner, were expected to meet Iranian officials in Islamabad this week, after a call between Trump and Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir. The White House confirmed Trump’s call with Munir. When asked about a possible visit by Witkoff and Kushner to Islamabad, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said: “These are sensitive diplomatic discussions and the US will not negotiate through the press. #tehran#iran#israel#trump#hormuz#operation 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Iran, quant à lui, said the targeting of Dimona was a retaliatory measure against Israeli strikes on its Natanz nuclear facility, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying the forces had also targeted other cities in southern Israel as well as military sites in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. After the Natanz attack, the head of the UN nuclear surveillance, Rafael Grossi, reiterated his call for “military restraint to avoid any risk of nuclear accident”. The Natanz facility houses underground centrifuges used to enrich uranium for Iran's disputed nuclear program; it suffered damage in the June 2025 war. The Israeli military denied being behind the Natanz strike, but said it struck a facility at a Tehran university that it said was being used to develop nuclear weapons components for Iran's ballistic missile program. The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it was facing air attacks after Iran warned it against authorizing strikes from its territory on disputed islands near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has choked off the vital waterway, which carries a fifth of the world's peacetime crude oil trade. The impasse has pushed up crude oil prices, with Brent North Sea crude now trading above $105 a barrel, as the long-term consequences for the global economy become an acute concern. A joint statement by the leaders of several countries – including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, condemned the “de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces”. “We express our willingness to contribute to the appropriate efforts to ensure a safe passage through the strait”, they said. Trump called NATO allies “cowards" and urged them to secure the strait. On Sunday, Japan said it may consider deploying its army for demining in the Strait of Hormuz, if a ceasefire is reached. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Toshimitsu Motegi, said “If there were to be a complete ceasefire, hypothetically speaking, then things like demining could happen”. “It's purely hypothetical, but if a ceasefire was established and the naval mines created an obstacle, then I think it would be something to consider”, Motegi told Japanese television. Japan's military actions are limited under its pacifist post-war constitution, but the 2015 security legislation allows Japan to use its self-defense forces abroad if an attack, including against a close security partner, threatens Japan's survival and no other means are available to deal with it. #trump#stopthefire#hormuz#japan#iran#tehran#attack 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

The Trump Ultimatum: 48 Hours to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to navigation or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launched its most destructive attack to date on Israel. The ultimatum, issued just a day after the US president declared that he planned to “end” military operations after three weeks of war, came as the main oil passage effectively remained closed and thousands of other US Marines were heading to the Middle East. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States would ”strike and destroy“ the Iranian power plants, ”starting with the largest first", if Tehran did not fully reopen the strait within 48 hours, or 23:44 GMT on Monday depending on the time of his post. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said Tehran had imposed restrictions only on ships from countries involved in attacks on Iran and would help others who remained out of the conflict. In response to Trump's threat, the Iranian military said it would target energy and desalination infrastructure “belonging to the United States and the regime in the region,” according to the Fars news agency. Trump's ultimatum came hours after two Iranian missiles struck southern Israel, injuring more than 100 people in the most destructive attack since the war began. Netanyahu, promised to fight back “on all fronts”. The strikes, which passed through Israel's missile defense systems, tore the facades of residential buildings and dug craters in the ground. First responders said 84 people were injured in the city of Arad, 10 of them seriously. A few hours earlier, 33 people had been injured in the nearby town of Dimona, where AFPTV images showed a large hole dug in the ground next to piles of rubble and twisted metal. Dimona hosts a facility widely considered to be the site of the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, although Israel has never admitted to possessing nuclear weapons. The Israeli military told Agence France-Presse that there had been a "direct missile strike on a building" in Dimona, with casualties reported at several sites, including a 10-year-old boy in serious condition with shrapnel. Netanyahu promised to continue hitting Iran. A few hours later, the Israeli military said that its forces had launched a wave of strikes on Tehran. #trump#stopthefire#hormuz#japan#iran#tehran#attack 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Teheran: Living in a Burning City The Heartbreaking Testimony Of An Eyewitness It's 5am on Thursday 12 March. I was finally falling asleep after a day full of fear when the phone rang. Terror rushes through me. It’s not the right time for a call. Someone must need help – or maybe they are alone and frightened. I answer the phone, exhausted. It’s my younger sister. She is crying and cannot speak. My heart breaks into a thousand pieces. I haven’t seen her for many days. When I was released from prison, she had gone to another city to take care of our mother. She returned on her birthday. But then the war began, and we remained separated in two different homes in Tehran. She is much younger than me, yet she took on the responsibility of protecting my son so that I could stay somewhere safe and avoid being arrested again. I remind her how grateful I am. My heart is in turmoil: I thought something terrible had happened at home and that she was unable to say it. I tell her that right now the only thing that matters is staying alive, even if we no longer have a home. Through her sobs she says: “Our neighbour was caught in the blast wave … and he’s gone.” For a moment I picture our neighbour. Like me, he smoked cigarettes. He must have been on the balcony for a smoke. Or maybe, like many others, he had gone out to watch the drones and see which direction they were flying. Maybe he had gone there to cry for a country and a people being destroyed. Maybe he was thinking about where to find gasoline so he could take his two children to a safer city. I wish I were in a desert where I could scream. Where I could cry as loudly as I want. The last time I cried was after the massacre of protesters in January. Why is it that here, unlike everywhere else in the world, we cannot cry like ordinary people? Why have we suffered so much that even new pain no longer shakes us? I can’t sleep any more. I go to the place where I have put a small gas burner – what I call my kitchen. I want coffee, but coffee has become very expensive and I have to save money. Cigarettes are also expensive, but I smoke anyway: one, two, five (…) Ever since the fuel depots were bombed at the weekend, my chest has burned and I can barely breathe. I bought an inhaler that now hangs around my neck. At 6.30am another loud explosion shakes the air. I look out the window. Some supporters of the government have come into the streets in their cars, chanting mourning songs and saying: “People, we are all together, compatriots.” Compatriots? Your foolishness destroyed this homeland. We tried. We struggled so these days would never come. We were imprisoned, tortured, executed. I think about Donald Trump. If he had acted 50 days earlier, 35,000 people might still be alive. Now I am afraid Iran will be destroyed – and yet the Islamic republic will remain. I am preparing to send a few packets of lentils and a small amount of money to a woman whose husband is in prison and who has a small child. It is the last banknote we have. There is no cash anywhere. I don’t know if one day we will ever have enough money to rebuild this devastation. It is now 8am. The streets are crowded again. People are going about their business. I see several tired and hopeless men, day labourers who still come here every day. But there is no work. Life continues in Tehran. But it is dark and bitter. #iran#tehran#living#war 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸