From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is the Daily.

Since the war with Iran began, President Trump has gone from urging Iranians to take cover and protect themselves to threatening to annihilate them.

But with the ceasefire set to expire this week,

very little has been heard from the Iranian people themselves.

Today, my colleague Claire Tennis Getter speaks to Iranians

about how they view this war.

It's Tuesday, April 21st. To the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.

The day of the U.S. and Israel launched its joint military operation against Iran, President Trump posted a video on true social.

When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.

He urged the Iranian people to rise up against the government.

Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach.

This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.

But then bombs started to fall. People did not rise up.

And so I wondered, what did Iranians think of this new war?

And the president's call to action.

So I started reaching out to them.

In the first days of the war, I sent nearly 100 messages, mostly to residents of Tehran,

the site of some of the heaviest bombing.

Still, I heard nothing.

I could see most of my messages weren't even being opened.

It wasn't that people didn't want to talk. They couldn't. Not only is it extremely dangerous

for Iranians to speak to an American journalist, phone calls could be monitored by the regime.

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