National pride and fear: A glimpse inisde Iran

28/06/2025 13 min
National pride and fear: A glimpse inisde Iran

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President Donald Trump has hit out at Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s claim that Iran won its recent 12-day war with Israel, saying the United States will “absolutely” bomb the country again if it pursues nuclear weapons.Meanwhile. Iranians have been telling the BBC's Persian service that authorities have carried out arrests and multiple executions of people suspected of links to Israeli intelligence agencies, after war between the two countries.Bahman Kalbasi, a BBC Persian Service journalist says there are fears that Iran's weakened leadership may again turn inward on its own people resorting to mass arrests, executions, and greater repression.