Zahra* woke up in the middle of the night at around 3.30am on 8 April, just before the ceasefire was announced. She could hear the hum of electricity. “Thank god,” she said. “The power hasn’t gone out.”
The buzz of devices and appliances in her home in Iran was a sign that the country hadn’t been bombed as promised by US president Donald Trump, when hours earlier he had made the unprecedented threat to completely destroy the entirety of Iranian civilisation.
