Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London.
I'm Rajini Vaidyanathan.
Iran's government hasn't released an updated casualty toll in recent days, but the US-based human rights activist news agency says...
that now more than 3,000 people in Iran have been killed.
Well, as the conflict continues on, it continues against the backdrop of what's usually a time of joy and celebration.
Iranians are marking Nowruz.
That's the Persian New Year.
And across the Gulf, Muslims are celebrating the festival of Eid.
Iran marks Eid tomorrow.
Well, in a moment, we'll hear from a journalist in Abu Dhabi
about what it's like to celebrate Eid at a time of war.
But first, I've been speaking to Catalina Gomez.
Now, she's one of the few foreign journalists who have accreditation to work in Iran.
She reports for France 24 and La Vanguardia newspaper in Spain.
And I began by asking her how she's marking Nauru's.
We are trying to, all of us here,
or at least some part of the population, we are trying
to recover a little bit of the spirit of Noruz, even if it's just for a couple of hours.
Then we have been in the last two, three days seeing
how all of us, we are going to the bazaar, trying to buy flowers and the elements, the seven elements