{"id":469145,"date":"2026-03-11T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469145\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:43:08","slug":"israel-launches-new-strikes-at-iran-and-lebanon-as-us-says-it-has-hit-16-iranian-mine-laying-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469145\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches new strikes at Iran and Lebanon, as US says it has hit 16 Iranian mine-laying ships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our customers think Iran has fallen apart but exports are continuing, says manufacturing workerpublished at 00:11 GMT<\/p>\n

00:11 GMT<\/p>\n

Soroush Pakzad
BBC News Persian<\/p>\n

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Isfahan is home to major industries in Iran and has been under many bombardments in the past few days<\/p>\n

I have been speaking to a businessman from a manufacturing and export company in Isfahan, Iran.<\/p>\n

“All of our foreign customers think Iran has completely fallen apart,” he says, and customers are “extremely frightened”.<\/p>\n

“But in reality, none of the infrastructure has been hit yet. Our factories are operating, and exports are continuing.”<\/p>\n

The businessman said that Russian and Iraqi customers today “suddenly insisted that we deliver and ship their goods faster”.<\/p>\n

“They were willing to pay double the logistics cost just to make sure their products leave Iran this week \u2014 especially the Iraqi clients,” he said.<\/p>\n

“One customer told me, \u201cIn the next few days they\u2019re going to hit Iran\u2019s fuel and electricity industries \u2014 pack up and go to Turkey.”<\/p>\n

Isfahan is home to major industries in Iran and has been under many bombardments in the past few days.<\/p>\n

Some people within Iran are more hopeful for a deal.<\/p>\n

My source says managers “believe Trump will eventually back down” and that many people are “counting on” a possible agreement between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n

But he admits that “operations have been disrupted” – “there are no trucks available, and transportation prices are completely chaotic”.<\/p>\n

“Since the start of the war, we\u2019ve only been able to sign one contract; the rest have pulled back, and customers have fled,” he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our customers think Iran has fallen apart but exports are continuing, says manufacturing workerpublished at 00:11 GMT 00:11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-469145","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}