Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

Mom!

Up the stairs for something.

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

Mom, what's for dinner?

Chop, sizzle, done.

Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

So its phones down, forks up.

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief.

This is FP Live.

So, what's... Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief. This is FP Live. So one of the paradoxes of the war in Iran is that it's been dominating the headlines.

We have all this high-level analysis of the ongoing diplomacy on the psychological makeup of the

leaders, and yet we have very little reporting on what

ordinary life is like in Iran. There are good reasons for this. It is hard for Western

journalists to get access and visas. When they do, safety is a real concern. And the internet

has been shut down since January, so communications

are difficult. But if you scratch beneath the surface, you can find accounts from within the country.

So I thought it would be useful to speak to someone who's actually been inside Iran during the war.

I turned to Ali Hashem. He's a reporter at Al Jazeera, the Qatari media giant,

and he spent six weeks in Tehran during the ongoing war. He was also there just after the mass

protests in January and last year during the 12-day war. Ali lived in Iran for three years in the 2010s when he was working

...