2025-06-16
26 分钟Hi there, I'm Ed Butler.
Welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
Coming up today,
we're going to be hearing from Iran as citizens and businesses there react to Israeli airstrikes and what looks like increasingly widespread supply disruption.
Also in the show,
we're in Thailand as the latest deadline looms for the threat of increased tariffs on US imports and why the Canary Islands and other parts of Spain are protesting against tourism.
More on that later in the show.
But first, now to the streets of Tehran.
That's the sound of traffic in the Iranian capital today, much of it heading out of the city.
Social media videos show lines of cars stretching into the distance as many thousands of citizens speak of massive disruption and a fear of Israeli airstrikes affecting them.
The Israeli military called on citizens in just the last couple of hours to evacuate large parts of the city.
Iran says that more than 220 people have been killed so far by missiles.
and drone attacks since the bombing started last Friday.
For years, our protests have been crushed.
Our currency has collapsed.
Our wages shrink by day.
And our dreams have gone up in smoke.
And now we have to fear going to bed in case of a bomb falls on us.
I feel like a loser.
We won't lose this fight against Israel.