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We will start with the latest from the Middle East where Israel has continued to strike Iran in the capital Tehran,
the city of Isfahan and in the south of the country.
Now throughout the conflict the BBC's Persian service has been hearing from people inside Iran.
Today the team has voiced up some of the messages they've received.
Life under the shadow of Israel and America's bombs is little by little eating us away.
We don't want war.
With every explosion we hear,
part of us feels glad that the corrupt Islamic regime is one step closer to its end.
And yet we are worried that our loved ones will make it out of this danger alive.