A month since the was began - we hear how has life changed for Iran

0:00Israel says it has killed a senior figure in the Iranian navy, who it says is directly responsible for the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has again claimed that Iran is begging to cut a deal, something tech ran to noise. In all of this, we've heard relatively little from ordinary Iranians whose lives have been upended since the war began almost a month ago. BBC correspondent Fergelt Keen has obtained testimony from people in different parts of the country. Now in order to protect them, their names have been changed, and other voices have been used to speak their words. Here's what one man had to say. My father, who until 20 years ago would have given his life a hamani, after his death brought sweets home to celebrate. This man, we're calling him Mahmoud, is furious with what's happening to his country. They are a group of savages with masks, chanting with loudspeakers, guns and vehicles constantly moving through the streets, shouting,

1:01and everyone is at home worried, afraid, with satellite signals full of noise and disruption and no internet. They've blocked the roads, they intimidate every car they see and behave however they want. A woman called Aisha in Fergelt's report had been shopping in the market for food to celebrate the festival of narrows which heralds the arrival of spring. Everything is supposed to become new, happy, fresh. I thought about how last year was, at this exact time, those people who have been killed came with us for e-shopping and now they are gone. There is war, everywhere is war. Iran feels very gloomy. In the past, in every part of the market, people sold things on the streets, flower pots, higher scents, vegetables, they sold fish. Now the streets have nothing, they are all empty. I think people's pockets are empty. Our economy is ruined and the biggest reason for it is the war. And we can talk now to Fergelt keen of the BBC.

2:04Fergelt, what else have people been saying to you about day-to-day life and about how it has changed over the past month? I think to really get a sense of what people feel, there is one word and that is trauma. And you go back to January when the regime brutally crushed the pro-democracy uprisings, the campaign on the streets by people against the hardline regime. They had just recovered, in a sense, physically, from that, when suddenly you get this war which is launched by the United States and Israel against Iran. Now what comes across to me over two weeks now of going through people's testimonies coming out of Iran is a sense that they feel caught between a regime which is increasingly repressive and airstrikes which don't discriminate when the missile lands, the bomb lands between the military building that might be on a street

3:10and all of the civilian buildings that might be around it. We saw that tragically at the very beginning of the war when you had this airstrike most likely now we know carried out by the United States which killed upwards of 180 children at a school in Minab south of Tehran. So people are dealing with two forces bearing down on them and they're trapped in the middle and as you heard in that testimony from the woman Aisha facing a situation in which basic household goods have doubled in price where people can no longer afford to put meals on the table in many, many cases and every night are going to sleep not knowing if an airstrike is going to kill them. And from listening to these testimonies do you get the impression that at the end of all of this that people expect any significant change? I think they hope they hope they will be changed but

4:13what the three people we spoke to in our report last night the sense that you know you get from them is we might hope what we don't expect us and one of the themes that's coming up in the last week is this fear that if the regime is defeated and that's still a big if and because they hold a lot of cards if the regime is defeated that you end up getting civil war so you might you know push out the clerics who are at the top of the power structure but they're very powerful support base and still very loyal support base isn't going to just vanish and we've had precedent we've seen what happens in a country like Iraq for example where you kind of decapitate the regime but all of the people who were part of it all of the people who made their living for example from the bath party in Iraq came back in a new form and that was a IS what became IS so the idea that

5:15you know the regime could be defeated and then suddenly everybody who worked for it who fought for it is going to melt away is absolutely fanciful and I think people on the ground in Iran know that they know what the potential for chaos is. Furgel thank you very much that was BBC correspondent Furgel Keen