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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.
We're beginning inside Iran, or as close as we can get to being inside Iran.
Because add to the fact that we, the BBC,
have long not been allowed to operate inside the country, the phone lines have been cut,
the internet has been down for several days as the authorities try to disrupt protests across the country and prevent information on the bloody crackdown,
leaving the country.
What's changed today is that some international phone lines do appear to be working again.
It's patchy.
But could it indicate that the authorities think they've regained some control,
that they're willing to allow some people some limited chance to phone abroad?
The other potentially big development today is what's happening at the White House with, we're told,
a meeting of the president's military and intelligence chiefs to thrash out all the options for possible American intervention,