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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm Regina Vaidyanarban.

A video shared by an Iranian news agency shows a missile launched from an undisclosed location overnight by an Iranian soldier. It lights up the night sky and can be heard for miles. The

war is entering its third week. Over night, blasts were heard in Jerusalem and in the

Iranian capital, Tehran. Iran's government hasn't released an updated casualty toll in recent days,

but the US-based human rights activist news agency says that now more than 3,000 people in Iran have

been killed.

Well, as the conflict continues on, it continues against the backdrop of what's usually a time of joy and celebration.

Iranians are marking now ruse. That's the Persian New Year. And across the Gulf, Muslims are celebrating the festival of Eid. Iran marks Eid tomorrow. Well, in a moment,

we'll hear from a journalist in Abu Dhabi about what it's like to celebrate Eid at a time of war.

But first, I've been speaking to Catalina Gomez. Now, she's one of the few foreign journalists

who have accreditation to work in Iran. She reports for France 24 and La Vanguardian newspaper in Spain.

And I began by asking her how she's marking Naurus.

We are trying to, all of us here, at least some part of the population,

we are trying to recover a little bit of the spirit of Naurus,

even if it's just for a couple of hours,

then we have been in the last two, three days, seeing how all of us we are going to the

bazaar, trying to buy flowers and the elements, the seven elements that really are part

of the have seen this old traditional Persian tradition by New Year

that they put it in the table to celebrate and to receive the New Year.

People are sad, people are worried, people are in a very bad circumstance,

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