00:0035-year-old Farhad usually runs a mobile phone store in central Tehran.
00:06But since the war broke out, he's had to close his business and move back in with his parents
00:11along with his children.
00:13Too afraid to take the kids to the park, he plays with them in the courtyard instead.
00:21Whenever a strike happens, I tell my children it's just thunder.
00:25But in the end, they understand that I'm not telling the truth.
00:29When the sound comes, they ask from the window, well, Dad, where's the rain?
00:33Why isn't it raining?
00:34Is it just thunder?
00:38Farhad's mother says she hopes for a ceasefire, but in the absence of one, she tries to maintain
00:43a sense of normality.
00:47We're not even afraid, because we've already experienced the 12-day war and the eight years
00:52of the Iran-Iraq war.
00:54This is normal for us.
00:57I even cleaned the house for Persian New Year.
01:00I just thought, well, life goes on.
01:02It must follow its normal course.
01:06With Persian New Year, or Noruz, this Friday, some stores in Tehran's Grand Bazaar have reopened.
01:13Still, between bombed-out buildings and fresh memories of the deadly crackdown on anti-regime
01:19protests, not many are in the mood to celebrate.
01:22So—
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