{"id":321985,"date":"2026-03-04T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:06:12","slug":"we-deserve-a-normal-life-iranians-tell-bbc-as-israel-begins-new-wave-of-strikes-across-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321985\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We deserve a normal life,&#8217; Iranians tell BBC, as Israel begins new &#8216;wave of strikes&#8217; across Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah &#8216;won&#8217;t surrender&#8217; as war with Israel escalatespublished at 20:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>20:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b4e7500e-9239-4a26-a61f-64a3eb8668a6.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Alice Cuddy<br \/>Reporting from Beirut<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hezbollah\u2019s<br \/>\nleader Naim Qassem has said the Iran-backed group &#8220;will not surrender&#8221;<br \/>\nas the war with Israel continues to escalate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his first<br \/>\npublic speech since the regional conflict spread to Lebanon on Monday, Qassem<br \/>\nsaid Hezbollah had adhered to a ceasefire deal reached in late 2024, but that<br \/>\nIsrael &#8220;did not abide by any of its provisions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We<br \/>\nagreed to the diplomatic solution and considered it an opportunity for the<br \/>\nstate to assume its responsibility, but we have repeatedly said &#8216;there are<br \/>\nlimits to patience&#8217;,&#8221; he said in the televised address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our<br \/>\nchoice is to confront them to the point of the utmost sacrifice, to the<br \/>\nfurthest limits, and we will not surrender,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hezbollah<br \/>\nlaunched rockets and drones at Israel on Monday after US and Israeli strikes<br \/>\nkilled Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayotollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel has<br \/>\nresponded with widespread air strikes and sent troops into the south of<br \/>\nLebanon, with tens of thousands of civilians forced to flee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hezbollah &#8216;won&#8217;t surrender&#8217; as war with Israel escalatespublished at 20:50 GMT 20:50 GMT Alice CuddyReporting from Beirut Hezbollah\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-321985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}