In the center of the Iranian capital, the Boof Cafe refreshes cold drinks on a hot summer day.

They should be the most distinctive iced Americano co-EES in the city-thefe is long-closed in a leafy corner of the US Embassy.

Washington has kept its high cement walls with anti-American murals paintings since the 1979 Iranian revolution and hostage crisis separated the relationship with Tehran-which still puts a long shade on this tortured relationship.

Inside the attractive Boof Cafe, Amir The Barista says he would prefer relations to improve between the US and Iran.

“US sanctions hurt our businesses and made it difficult for us to travel around the world,” he reflects because he puts another iced coffee behind a chutney wooden signal – “Keep calm and drink coffee.”

Only two tables are captured – covered in a long black veil by a woman, with long flowing hair by a woman in another blue jeans, a bang of rules on what women should wear, because she cuddles with her lover.

It is a small snapshot of this capital as it faces its deep uncertain future.

A small drive far away in the premises of Iran’s state TV station Iribe, a recorded speech by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni was broadcast in the nation on Thursday.

He said, “American Islamic Republic of Iran has been opposing from the beginning.”

“At its core, it has always been about one thing: they want to surrender,” went to 86 -year -old Ayatollah, sheltered in a bunker that Israel has exposed its unprecedented wave of strikes that target Iran’s nuclear and missile sites and target senior commanders and scientists.

We saw his speech, his first President Donald Trump suddenly announced a ceasefire on Tuesday, only a small TV in O IN C is still intact in a huge section of the IRB campus. This is all that there is a skeleton of steel.

When an Israeli bomb slipped into the premises on 16 June, a fierce fire broke out through the main studio, which would have broadcast the address of the supreme leader. Now this is just ashes.

You can still taste its pungent smell; All TV equipment – cameras, lights, tripod – twisted metal touch. A crunching glass covers the carpet land.

Israel said that it targeted the Islamic Republic’s promotional hand, alleging a military operation – an allegation was rejected by his journalists.

Its gapping shell symbolizes this deepest time for Iran.

You can also see it in city hospitals, who are still treating Iranians injured in the 12-day war of Israel.

“I am afraid that they may attack again,” Ashraf Barghi tells me that when we meet in the Emergency Department of Taleghani General Hospital, where she works as a head nurse.

“We don’t believe that this war is over” She says, in a comment, which we have heard from so many people in this city, reflecting that concern in a comment.

When? Israel bombs the threshold of nearby avin jail on 23 JuneThe number of casualties, both soldiers and citizens were taken to the emergency ward of the nurse Barghi.

“Injuries were the worst that I have treated as a nurse in my 32 years,” she remembers, yet is visually distressed.

The strike on the notorious prison where Iran detained most of its political prisoners, described by Israel as “symbolic”.

It seemed to the Iranians of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu repeatedly to strengthen the repeated message to “stand for their freedom”.

“Israel says that it only killed military and nuclear gel, but it’s all lies,” insist on Mortza from his hospital bed. He was working in the jail’s transport department when the missile was slammed into the building. He shows us injuries in both arms and his back.

In the next door of the ward, soldiers are being taken care of, but we are not allowed to enter there.

Across this huge metropolis, Irani is counting the cost of this confrontation. In its latest tally, 627 people were killed and around 5,000 injured by the government’s Health Ministry.

Tehran is slowly returning to life and resumes his old rhythm, at least on the surface. Its infamous tray. C are beginning to fill their growing highways and beautiful trees and interested side roads.

Shops are opening again in its beautiful markets because people are returning to a city which they ran to escape from bombs. Israel’s intensive 12-day military operations, along with US attacks at Iran’s main nuclear sites, have been shaken by a lot of shakes.

“They were not good days,” Meena says, a young woman who immediately breaks away because she tries to explain her grief. “It is very heartbreaking,” she tells me through her tears. “We tried so much to live a better life, but we cannot see any future these days.”

We met one of the most prestigious places in Tehran, on the ground of white marble azadi tower. On a hot summer evening, a large crowd, Tehran was swept away for the strains of patriotic songs liked in the Symphony orchestra’s open air concert. It was still to bring something quiet on the shore in a city.

Supporters and critics of Iran’s clerical rulers shared and pulled together about the future of their country.

On Ali Reza, when I ask him what advice he would give to his government, they hear what people say. “” We want more and more freedom, I would say all this. “

There is also a disregard. Hammed, an 18 -year -old university student, says, “Attacking our atomic bases to show that ‘you have to do as we say’ goes against diplomacy.”

Despite the rules and restrictions, who have long control their lives, Irani talks about their mind because they wait for the next steps by their rulers, and Washington and beyond leaders who take such results for their lives.

Additional reporting by Charlotte Scar and Nick Millard.

Lius Docket is being allowed to report in Iran on the condition that any of their reports are not used on BBC’s Persian service. This law of Iranian officials applies to all international media agencies working in Iran.