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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.
Just a quick word on something which we thought might be about to happen,
which we've just learned is not.
now happening.
There was some speculation that the US Supreme Court could issue its ruling today on challenging the legality of President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs.
That is now not happening today.
We've just been informed.
We are going to begin the program
though in Iran and just be clear I'm talking about the whole country not simply the capital Tehran
because one of the really striking things about the nationwide protests that are now almost two weeks old is that they really are nationwide that and growing in size and intensity Some of this is informed guesswork,
informed especially by our tireless colleagues in the BBC Persian service,
but the evidence is stacking up.
This was footage verified by BBC Persian in the city of Camille in the southwest of the country.
That's the sound of a statue of Qassem Soleimani,
the hugely important military commander killed six years ago by the Americans,
that statue being toppled.