This is a special edition of the Global News Podcasts.

This is a special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Will Chalk.

Iran has warned Donald Trump. It's prepared to teach him an unforgettable lesson.

It's after the US president warned he was considering very strong options.

Clearly, what started last month as a demonstration in Iran's capital, Tehran,

about the country's faltering economy, has already grown into something much bigger.

Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed as the protests continue to spread

across the country and internet blackout is still in place, making it difficult to get information.

The BBC has been taking questions from our audience about what this all means and what's at

stake. So let's hear from my colleague Matthew Amrolli Waller, who's been speaking to two of the BBC's diplomatic correspondence, Caroline Hawley in London and Paul Adams in Washington, as well as Siavash Adelan from BBC Persian.

Seavash, to you first of all, as I say, we're into the third straight week of this.

From the fragments of information that's coming in, what can you tell us?

The main fragment of information that came out was a video clip,

a very heart-wrenching and horrific image of people at a mortuary outside Tehran, the capital,

where hundreds of bodies were piled upon each other and relatives

or families of these people searching for their loved ones. Now, we hadn't known the scale of the

killings until this video had come out. And then from the fragments of information we're getting

from people via Starlink sending us messages telling us the grim atmosphere right now prevailing

in Tehran and other cities after that massive crackdown.

Everyone knows someone who has been killed.

So the situation is one that you would associate with Syria's civil war or with Gaza today in Iran

for the authorities to quell one of the biggest protests that took place

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