How Iranians are reacting Trump's election and what it could mean for their lives
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With President-elect Trump's team coming into focus, one priority will be confronting and increasing pressure on Iran. |
| 0:08.0 | So how does that look and feel to ordinary Iranians? |
| 0:11.0 | Special correspondent Reza Seya reports from Tehran. |
| 0:15.0 | At the Nazari Street Bakery in the capital Tehran, |
| 0:19.0 | Iran's famous Barbari flatbread is always the right choice. |
| 0:24.6 | But for bakery owner Tahr Nazari, |
| 0:28.6 | America's election of Donald Trump was a choice between two evils. |
| 0:33.6 | The people are smarter than that talk about whether Trump won or didn't win, whether the Democrats |
| 0:40.3 | won or the Republicans. Like they say, they're both as bad as each other. |
| 0:44.3 | At Friday prayers, a weekly gathering of Iran's ultra-conservatives, many said Trump's |
| 0:53.3 | victory over Harris |
| 0:55.3 | changes nothing in U.S. policy. |
| 0:59.0 | In America and in their elections, it doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans, |
| 1:04.2 | nothing will change. |
| 1:06.8 | There are two sides of the same coin. |
| 1:08.8 | Their objectives are the same. |
| 1:10.3 | They either want to sanction us or start a war. |
| 1:12.8 | We overcame obstacles. |
| 1:14.8 | While many here downplayed the Trump victory, others said, oh no, not again. |
| 1:21.4 | We laughed. |
| 1:22.9 | It was the laugh that comes with the loss of hope. |
| 1:27.3 | Mehraub Khabeli is CEO of a Tehran-based engineering firm. |
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