{"id":502205,"date":"2026-03-29T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502205\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:43:09","slug":"israel-says-industrial-site-on-fire-after-iranian-attack-as-hundreds-mourn-killed-journalists-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502205\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says industrial site on fire after Iranian attack as hundreds mourn killed journalists in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I think I can hold up the business for one month maximum&#8217;published at 13:22 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:22 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/84235ea3-e168-4601-8945-9467e76fa41f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ghoncheh Habibiazad<br \/>Senior reporter, BBC Persian<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman stands walks by a poster featuring the current and former Supreme Leaders on March 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b8147e31-1594-4b8a-b136-a8e445ec4c1f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the war enters its second month, more issues are starting to come to the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Normally, during the roughly two-week Persian New Year holidays, which began on 21 March, businesses like tourism and hospitality would flourish. But I\u2019ve heard it hasn\u2019t been the same as last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A restaurant owner in Tehran, a man in his 30s, told me: &#8220;Many businesses are completely shut down now. My situation is not better than theirs. It\u2019s been very quiet, and I think I can hold up the business for one month maximum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some businesses are struggling because of the government-imposed internet outage. Others need to repair their homes after strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman in her 20s, who had travelled to a northern province to &#8220;distract&#8221; herself from the war, said: &#8220;My mum called me to tell me that all the glasses of our windows had been shattered when a strike happened behind our house in Tehran. Luckily my parents had blankets on them when it happened, and nothing happened to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are also those in Tehran suffering with their pets, as the city has seen the heaviest strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman in her 20s in Tehran said: \u201cEvery time there\u2019s an explosion I feel like I\u2019m going to be sick, and I\u2019ve ended up with a sore throat as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And on top of that, my cat\u2019s more scared than anything. He\u2019s really not coping. He gets so anxious. He\u2019s never usually a cuddly cat, but now he just runs straight into my arms. He doesn\u2019t play at all anymore, he just stays with me all day, just breathing really fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I think I can hold up the business for one month maximum&#8217;published at 13:22 BST 13:22 BST Ghoncheh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-502205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502205","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=502205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}