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

I'm Tim Franks. Two weeks on, and Iran remains in convulsions. The question is, for how much longer?

Videos verified by the BBC's Persian service,

some of which are posted on our website, BBC.com forward slash news,

show the evidence of protesters continuing to defy the use of lethal force by the authorities.

There are still crowds, but as you peer through the

darkness and the flames, you can hear the soundtrack, not just of tear gas being launched,

but also rifle fire. And now the authorities are claiming that their increasingly forceful response

with hundreds reported dead has brought the situation under their total control,

at least those were the words used by the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arakchi.

As ever, with a country cut off from outside scrutiny,

where the internet has been switched off and media such as the BBC long banned

from operating inside the country,

that's a claim which is open to dispute.

Let's begin with our correspondent Joe Inwood, who's been piecing together what we do know

from people on the ground, from the small number of videos that make it through the internet

blackout to our colleagues in BBC Persian. We've revoiced the testimonies to protect the identities of those inside Iran.

For many families, this is now the sound of these protests.

In a temporary morgue in the south of Tehran,

row upon row of black body bags lie on floors and tables.

Getting accounts from inside the country is difficult and dangerous for anyone who speaks.

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