Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammanpur Hour.

Here's where we're headed this week.

America and Israel's war on Iran enters its third week, President Trump's former special representative for Iran and Venezuela,

Elliot Abrams, tells me it'll either end with regime change or Trump declaring his military

goals are met.

Then the massive fallout in Lebanon from Israel's second front against Hezbollah.

With almost a million fleeing for their lives, the Lebanese Justice Minister joins me.

And from the Iranian perspective, the view from the opposition and inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Political analyst Mustafa Danish Gair and scholar Mariam Al-Mzadeh join me.

Also ahead.

These kids just received two weeks training and just how to shoot with the guns and

they send them to battlefield using them for the mine field to destroy it.

Using children as human minesweepers from the archives how Iran's war with Iraq in the

80s showed a deep faith, devotion and defiance that fuels its military to this day.

And finally, it's Oscar Weekend, and we bring you two Iranian filmmakers at a first-time nomination

showing a different side of Iranian society.

Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

Starting a war is always easier than ending it, as they say.

So two weeks after the US and Israel first struck Iran,

though significantly weakened, it remains defiant,

crippling the vital global oil trade through

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