EXCLUSIVE: TEHRAN, LIFE GOES ON | M6 | 66 minutes

Nearly two months after the start of the war, and while traffic remains blocked in the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations have finally resumed between Washington and the Revolutionary Guards.
In Tehran, the capital, life is slowly returning in this megacity of nearly 17 million inhabitants.
The vast, colorful Grand Bazaar — the largest in the world, with its 10 kilometers of alleys — has reopened, as if nothing had happened.
But behind this apparent normality, daily life is a constant struggle.
With supply shortages, improvised ways of bypassing the embargo, state propaganda, and the ever-present fear of bombings — how are people managing to survive?
One of our teams was granted rare access to film inside the capital, capturing the everyday lives of Tehran’s residents — in their homes.
Under close surveillance, of course.
Since the start of the Israeli-American strikes on February 28, the regime — or what remains of it — has tightened its grip.
Plainclothes police, checkpoints… only pro-government demonstrations, like the ones we were allowed to follow, are authorized. Everything is under control. The Revolutionary Guards have imposed a digital lockdown: 99% of users are now cut off from the internet.
And even though mosques remain closed, we were exceptionally able to follow a mullah during a major Friday prayer gathering — an attempt to understand what still keeps people going.
And for how much longer?