Tehran returns to life, but its inhabitants are deeply shaken

In the heart of the Iranian capital, Booof Café offers refreshing cold drinks on a hot summer day.

They should be the most distinguished American city in this city-the café is located in a Law angle of the absolute American embassy for a long time.

The walls of high cement have been dressed with anti-United States murals since Washington has cut relations with Tehran in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the hostage crisis-which still casts long shadows on this severe relationship.

Inside the magician Bouf Café, Amir Parista says he wants to improve between America and Iran.

“American sanctions hurt our actions and make it difficult for us to travel all over the world, and reflects as it pours other iced coffee behind a lamps -” keep calm and drink coffee. “

Not only two tablespoons – one by a woman covered in a long black veil, and another from a woman wearing blue jeans with long hair flowing, fluter the rules about what women should wear while she was hugging with her boyfriend.

It is a small snapshot of this capital because it faces its very uncertain future.

“The Americans were opposing the Islamic Republic of Iran from the beginning,” the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameneini, announced his registered speech on Thursday from the Airb State TV complex, a short drive away.

“In essence, it was always about one thing: they wanted us to surrender,” and Ayatollah, who was said to be 86 years old, was said to have led to a tenant in Israel, launched its unprecedented wave of strikes targeting Iran nuclear and missile sites, and the great leaders and scholars have been created.

We have seen his speech, the first since President Donald Trump suddenly announced the ceasefire on Tuesday, on a small TV at the only benefit that is still sound in a wide section of the IRIB – everything that is a charred skeleton of steel.

When an Israeli bomb was criticized in this complex on June 16, it invaded the main studio fire that would have been the title of the supreme leader. Now it is just ash.

You can still taste its civil smell. All TV equipment – cameras, lights and triple spirits – tangle of the twisted metal. The grinding glass carpet covers the ground.

Israel said it had targeted the propaganda arm of the Islamic Republic, accusing of hiding a military operation inside – a charge of rejection of the journalists.

The gap shell seems to symbolize these times for Iran.

You can also see it in the city’s hospitals, which still treat the 12 -day Iranian war.

“I am afraid that they might attack again,” Ashraf Braghi told me when we meet in the emergency department at Al -Hikma General Hospital where she works as a major nurse.

“We do not trust this war,” she says, in a note that reflects the good anxiety that we heard from many people in this city.

when Israel bombed the threshold of Evin prison near June 23The losses, both soldiers and civilians, were transferred to the emergency wing of the Paragrant nurse.

“The injuries were the worst that I dealt with in 32 years as a nurse, even worse than I saw in the Iran and Iraq war in the eighties,” and still is clearly an ordeal.

Israel described the strike on the famous prison, as Iran has seized most of its political prisoners as “symbolic”.

It seems that he is strengthening the message of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to the Iranians to “defend their freedom.”

“Israel says it only struck the military and nuclear prison, but all this is lying,” Mortza insists on his bed in the hospital. He was working in the prison department in prison when he criticized the missile in the building. Its injuries appear in both the arms and its back.

In the adjacent wing, soldiers are taken care of, but we are not allowed to enter there.

Through this sprawling city, the Iranians calculate the cost of this confrontation. In its last toll, the government of the government recorded 627 people who were killed and about 5,000 people were injured.

Tehran slowly returns to life and resumes its old rhythms, at least on the surface. His bad shows began filling high highways and side streets on which trees lined up.

The stores in the beautiful bazaars open again when people return to a city who fled to escape from the bombs. The 12 -day intensive military operation for Israel, along with the United States’ attacks on the main nuclear sites in Iran, has been shaken a lot.

“It was not good days,” says Mina, a young woman who immediately collapses while trying to explain her grief. “It is very broken,” she told me with her tears. “We tried hard to be a better life but we cannot see any future these days.”

We met the growing white marble land, one of the most famous landmarks in Tehran. A large crowd on a warm summer evening rolled to the strains of the beloved national songs at an open concert for Tehran Symphony Orchestra. It was supposed to bring some calm to the city on the edge of the abyss.

The supporters of the Iranian verbal rulers and critics, who have gathered together before the participation of anxiety about the future of their country.

“They have to hear what people say,” Ali Rida insists when I ask him about the advice he will give to his government. “We want greater freedoms, that’s all I will say.”

Despite the rules and restrictions that have long governed their lives, the Iranians are talking about their opinion while they are waiting for the following steps by their rulers, leaders in Washington and abroad, which carry such consequences for their lives.

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