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Tehran – 11 April 2025
1. Wide of Tehran skyline and traffic
2. Various of traffic
3. Various of street musicians playing
4. Various of people walking in streets
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Motlagh, 44, local resident:
"I think the talks won’t lead to any result. They (the Iranian side) want to somehow kill time. I think a military attack will happen. That’s how I feel."
6. Protesters marching and chanting UPSOUND (Farsi) "Death to America" and "Death to Israel"
7. Various of protesters marching and chanting
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Salman Emami, 45, localresident:
"We are at war with America because of who we are at our core. When you are engaged in a serious battle against someone, it doesn’t make sense to negotiate. Negotiations make sense when the other side begins to back down. But it is doubling down on its oppressive positions every single day. Thanks to Allah we have grown stronger and capable of resisting, and gone are the days when we had to retreat."
9. Various of protesters chanting UPSOUND (Farsi): "Death to America"
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Akbari, 60, local resident:
"We don’t trust America and its leaders at all. Regarding the talks, no matter whether they are direct or indirect, we believe America is treacherous, and will not honour any deal reached, as it has done many times before."
11. Protesters chanting (Farsi) "Death to America" and "Death to Israel"
STORYLINE:
Some Tehran residents said on Friday they view upcoming talks with the United States with deep skepticism, as tensions continue to grow between the two countries.
Iran and the US will meet in Oman on Saturday for talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme for the first time since President Donald Trump began his second term.
No agreement is immediately likely, but the stakes of the negotiations couldn’t be higher for these two nations closing in on half a century of enmity.
Trump repeatedly has threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear programme if a deal isn’t reached.
Iranian officials increasingly warn that they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.
Iranians are monitoring news of the talks closely, although many remain deeply sceptical of their outcome.
"I think the talks won’t lead to any result," said 44-year old Hossein Motlagh.
"They (the Iranian side) want to somehow kill time. I think a military attack will happen. That’s how I feel."
The pessimism stems partly from the landmark 2015 nuclear deal collapsing after only a few years when president Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018 and restored sanctions on Iran.
At the same time Iran’s clerical leadership has consistently refused to abandon its nuclear programme, even in the face of Trump’s "maximum pressure" campaign during both of his terms in office.
Hardline supporters of the government fiercely oppose the talks too, as they believe America can’t be trusted.
Many took to the streets on Friday in a rally, chanting anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans.
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