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Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks.

And we're beginning with a war in Iran, where the landscape is shifting, with shifting deadlines,

shifting objectives and rhetoric, which over the weekend shifted to a new sweary pitch.

On that point, if you didn't hear or read it, this was President Trump's profanity-strewn post on social media on Easter Sunday,

in which he announced that tomorrow, Tuesday, will be, as he put it,

power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one,

an implicit but pretty clear threat that major civilian infrastructure

would be targeted deliberately by US forces, unless that is,

Iran release its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. I would quote the rest of his post,

but given its sweariness, it would probably be my last day in broadcasting, at least for the BBC World Service.

Iran, for its part, has warned that its response to any such strikes would be much more

devastating and widespread than it has staged so far. There is also, of course, a wider question

as to whether the deliberate destruction of energy and transport infrastructure

would amount to war crimes. Let's begin, though, with some voices from inside Iran. Communications

can be patchy, with a lot of disruption to the internet. We did, though, get in touch with

this businessman in Tehran. He's in his 30s, he asked that we not disclose his name.

He sent us this voice note.

I think it's safe to say that no Iranian can feel good about the destruction of their

country's infrastructure.

These past few days, all of us have been telling each other that maybe by Wednesday or even this weekend we want to be able to do certain things, or maybe we want to even be able to go to our businesses or our shops at all.

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