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Floridas Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) police are performing dozens of license plate lookups on Flock cameras for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to public records that show details of the searches.The practice highlights how ICE, which does not have a contract with Flock, continues to get access to Flocks AI-powered license plate scanning cameras through local and state police, and often in ways that are unusual, unexpected, and difficult for the public to track or hold the agency accountable for. In this case, ICE has gained access to Flock data through a law enforcement agency that is nominally supposed to be focused on conservation, protecting endangered species, and investigating boating and maritime issues. 404 Media initially reported on how ICE was getting side-door access to Flock data via local police in May 2025.That reporting led to a series of reforms and safeguards that are supposed to make it easier for law enforcement agencies that use Flock to opt out of having their surveillance camera data passed to federal agencies; a blog post by Flock called Does Flock Share Data With ICE? now states plainly No. Flock does not work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or any other sub-agency of the Department of Homeland Security. But in practice, the public records show that as of the end of January (the most recent data available) thousands of agencies around the country were sharing their camera data with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police, which was then regularly performing lookups for ICE.Flock cameras continually scan the license plate, brand, and color of every vehicle that drives by. Law enforcement can then search the Flock system to see where else a vehicle has travelled. Crucially, Flock maintains a national lookup tool where agencies in one state can search data generated by cameras in another, even if those cameras are on the other side of the country. Law enforcement typically do this without a warrant.A January Flock network audit for Ball State University, a public university in Indiana that has a contract with Flock, shows that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police performed 38 different Flock searches for reasons that were listed as immigration.Flock network audits are spreadsheets that have a separate entry for each time a police departments Flock data is queried by another agency. Each entry contains information about how many different networks and cameras were searched, the time of the search, and the stated reason for the search. The searches performed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had reasons that ranged from Immigration (civil/administrative) - I.C.E. to Immigration (criminal) - General Criminal Investigation to Immigration (criminal) - I.C.E. The network audit indicated that more than 5,000 different Flock networks were searched in each case, indicating that, as of January, thousands of towns and cities were still sharing data with agencies that ultimately work with ICE despite new safeguards put in place by Flock.This highlights when you do mass surveillance, you really cant control the data, Jay Stanley, a senior analyst with the American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media. I doubt there were many cities that were debating the Florida Fish and Wildlife Services doing searches for ICE when they were talking about whether they should get Flock. It shows these searches can come from really any direction.The records in question were obtained from Ball State University by the journalist David Covucci, who covers college sports for his website FOIABall. Covucci shared the documents with 404 Media. The documents showed that, beyond the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Grant County Indiana Sheriff's Office, Lake County Indiana police, Sarasota County Florida police, Brevard County Florida Sheriff's Office, Nebraska State Patrol, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Fort Pierce Florida Police Department, and Mississippi Department of Public Safety had all done immigration-related Flock searches in January. This means that all of these agencies ultimately searched Flock cameras on Ball States campus (and thousands of others across the country) for immigration-related purposes.Police with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are able to do these lookups for ICE because in August, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enrolled nearly 800 of its officers in 287(g), a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program that gives state and local police certain immigration enforcement powers. DeSantis has essentially turned many state police into an extension of ICE: Florida is setting the example for states in combating illegal immigration and working with the Trump Administration to restore the rule of law, DeSantis said in a press release announcing the move. By allowing our state agents and law enforcement officers to be trained and approved by ICE, Florida will now have more enforcement personnel deputized to assist federal partners. That means deportations can be carried out more efficiently, making our communities safer as illegal aliens are removed.The ACLU published a report in February about how the expansion of the 287(g) program has vastly increased the Trump administrations deportation force. While in recent months the nations attention has rightly focused on the violence and abuse perpetrated by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places like Minneapolis, in Florida and around the country, communities are experiencing another kind of terror: Their own law enforcement agencies, working hand in glove with the Trump administration, are the perpetrators of blatant racial profiling, harassment, and even violence, the report says.The report specifically notes that Florida appears to have devoted more state and local law enforcement resources to immigration enforcement than any other state, resulting in numerous cases of harassment and profiling of U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike, a climate of extreme fear in communities, and reports of serious civil rights violations.The ACLUs Stanley said that the expansion of 287(g) has made a lot of the debates that communities are having about federal access to Flock data feel outdated, because they may fail to grapple with the fact that local police around the country are now doing work on behalf of federal authorities. A lot of the focus in communities and elsewhere where Flock is controversial have focused on this question of Will the feds be able to access this data?, Stanley said. This is a reminder that the sharp expansion of 287(g) has made that almost moot because a lot of local authorities are working so closely with ICE.Flock has in recent months attempted to distance itself from ICE, in part with the Does Flock Share Data With ICE? blog post and with numerous media appearances and LinkedIn posts by its executives. Flock has repeatedly leaned on the idea that its customers own and control their data, and that Flock has made numerous changes to comply with several states laws that forbid the use of license plate reader data for immigration or abortion enforcement, or which ban the transfer of license plate camera data out of the state altogether.As we've shared with your organization many times, all our customers own their data and choose how to use it, provided it complies with local laws and statutes, a spokesperson for Flock told 404 Media. In cities and states where cooperating with federal immigration is against the law, we block that from happening within the product itself. In states where cooperation is legal, customers and their local values determine how they choose to enforce the law.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokesperson for Gov. DeSantiss office, however, told 404 Media that the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission continues to work with ICE. Please note that it is NOT out of the ordinary for FWC to work alongside ICE as they have a 287 (g) agreement with them-as do all State of Florida law enforcement agencies, they said.404 Media, other reporters, and transparency advocates have been reporting on the use of Flock cameras primarily by obtaining network audits through public records requests. But the utility of those network audits is rapidly deteriorating; as we reported earlier this year, Flock has made changes to its network audits that makes each individual entry more vague, and authorities have warned police to be as vague as permissible about the reasons why they are using Flock. Many Flock search reasons simply say investigation or another blanket term, making it impossible to know why the system was really used. Because of this change, it may become harder to track which agencies are working with ICE, and how often its happening.I think everybody using Flock knows you can get away with putting something like a generic descriptor that wont tip off communities to whats going on, Stanley said. This window of visibility is closing, even this very limited flawed, manipulable window of visibility is closing.

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Across most of the U.S., if you want to watch porn online, you have to hand over a government ID or submit to a biometric scan to determine youre over 18 years of age. But people in Wisconsin can keep freely accessing porn sitesand any other website that hosts more than one third adult contentafter Governor Tony Evers vetoed the states age verification bill on Friday.A copycat of the dozens of bills that have passed in the U.S. since 2022, Wisconsins Assembly Bill 105 would have forced sites with more than one third material harmful to minors, defined as depictions of actual or simulated sexual acts or body parts including pubic areas, genitals, buttocks, and female nipples, to verify visitors ages by using any commercially reasonable method that uses public or private transactional data gathered about the individual. This means uploading an ID, showing their face for a biometric scan, uploading their credit card information, or combinations of these.I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to this bill's intrusion into the personal privacy of Wisconsin residents, Evers wrote in a letter to the members of the assembly, dated April 3. While I agree that we should protect children from harmful material, this bill imposes an intrusive burden on adults who are trying to access constitutionally protected materials.Evers wrote that the bill doesnt prevent platforms from giving collected personal data to third parties, such as the government or data brokers. This is a violation of personal privacy, he wrote.Additionally, I am concerned about data security and the potential for misuse of personally identifiable information. Identifiable information could be intercepted by or transmitted to a third party and used as the basis for blackmail or identity theft. Further, although the bill includes penalties for a business entity who violates the prohibition on retention of personal information, those penalties cannot undo the harm that may occur to an individual who is the victim of actions like blackmail or identity theft as a result of a bad actor obtaining their identity.Last year, after the UKs Online Safety Act started requiring websites and platforms to verify users ages, Discord users age verification dataincluding selfies and identity documentswas exposed in a security breach. The hack was just one instance where users personal data has been required by a platform and then exposed to the whole internet: also last year, similar data was exposed by the Tea app, which made users provide selfies and identity documents to prove theyre women.An earlier version of the bill attempted to ban Wisconsinites from accessing sites using virtual private networks (VPNs); lawmakers are increasingly pushing to restrict VPNs, but so far have faced pushback from citizens and civil liberties groups. Wisconsin state Sen. Van Wanggaard moved to delete that provision in the legislation, and the state assembly agreed to remove the VPN ban in February.The adult advocacy group Free Speech Coalition wrote following the veto that Director of Public Policy Mike Stabile flew to Madison to meet with legislators to discuss the legal and technological issues with the bill, including a ban on VPN traffic, and to advocate for device-based verification solutions.Put simply, AB-105 raises significant concerns around privacy, surveillance, and the First Amendment, the ACLU of Wisconsin wrote in testimony submitted in March. While the ACLU of Wisconsin is sympathetic to the overarching goal of this legislation, we do not believe an appropriate trade-off is compromising the civil liberties of all Wisconsinites.Wisconsin is now one of only a handful of states left that allows access to porn without requiring users jump through invasive age verification hoops. We can and should work to prevent minors from accessing adult content, but there are better solutions than the one offered by this bill, Evers wrote in his veto letter. For example, we can work with tech companies to implement device-based age verification that takes place on a user's phone or computer, which can be a more secure and effective method. Other states have been moving toward device-based solutions, and major tech companies are adopting these options as well.

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2026-04-06T16:03:55Z FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) For the second time, Israel has attacked Irans South Pars natural gas and its associated petrochemical complex - an energy lifeline for Iran that both helps keep the lights on for civilians and provides a key source of export earnings.Israels Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday that Israel attacked a key petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh, the onshore industrial aspect of the gas field, which lies under the Persian Gulf. Katz said the powerful strike hit what he called the largest petrochemical facility in Iran ... responsible for about 50% of the countrys petrochemical production. Combined with an earlier attack, two facilities responsible for 85% of Irans petrochemical exports have been taken out of service, he said. Attacks on South Pars are sufficiently provocative to Iran that an earlier Israeli attack on March 18 prompted Iran to target energy infrastructure in other Middle East countries in response, an escalation of the war that sent new shockwaves across the region and beyond. After the March attack, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Israel would not attack South Pars again, but warned on social media that if Iran continued attacking key energy infrastructure in Qatar, the United States would retaliate and massively blow up the entirety of the field.Here are things to know about the South Pars natural gas field and its associated industries making chemicals using gas as a raw material: Irans share of the worlds largest gas field provides both domestic energy and export earnings. South Pars is Irans biggest source of domestic energy in a country that sometimes struggles to produce enough electricity. The gas field under the Persian Gulf the worlds largest is shared by Iran and Qatar. Its called South Pars on the Iranian side and the North Field on the Qatari side. Iran relies heavily on gas to produce electricity and heat homes. It is the fourth-largest consumer of natural gas in the world, behind the U.S., China and Russia, according to the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, even though its economy is much smaller. In contrast to other Middle East countries, it uses gas for heating due to its cold climate and much of that use is subsidized, which discourages efficient use. Read More Abundant, affordable gas from South Pars fuels industries making chemicals for exportWhile the South Pars gas is important at home, the petrochemical plant is a source of export earnings. The gas is used to make basic chemical building blocks like ethylene, propylene, methanol, ammonia and urea used to make other products such as plastic pipe, packaging, clothing, household products or fertilizer. Among the largest importers are Turkey, China, India and Southeast Asian countries, according to Iranian mining and petrochemical export company Irminex. Irans petrochemical industry gets a competitive advantage from low raw material costs due to its access to South Pars gas.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says those earnings benefitted Irans paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Today we destroyed the largest petrochemical plant in Iran, Netanyahu said. In other words, we are systematically destroying the money machine of the Revolutionary Guards. Iran has struggled with rickety energy infrastructure and shortagesIran has suffered power shortages because of interruptions to gas supplies, even though on paper it has huge energy reserves. In July, public buildings had to shut down when a heat wave strained the power grid.So an attack on South Pars could potentially target both civilian welfare and export earnings. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. Qatar and Iran have made starkly different uses of the same underground reservesQatar, with only 3 million people, has invested billions in developing the field as a source of liquefied natural gas, which before the war it exported from its Ras Laffan facility. Its a lucrative business and made Qatar the supplier of about a fifth of the worlds LNG before the war forced it to shut down Ras Laffan. Iran, with 93 million people, is another story. Sanctions and lack of investment have blocked the development of LNG export terminals. Instead, Iran feeds its gas into its own pipeline system and uses it domestically for cooking, heating homes, generating electricity, and as a raw material for industry. Iran exports relatively little, about 9 billion cubic meters, compared to Qatars more than 120 billion cubic meters. So the South Pars petrochemical industries are one way Iran can get export earnings from its massive gas reserves. Iran tried to develop LNG for export, but was blocked by sanctions Iran once planned three LNG export projects on its Persian Gulf coastline, one with Total Energies and another with Shell. But sanctions over its nuclear program have blocked the projects by barring the import of the needed technology and investment. A third site at Asulayeh is reportedly near completion after starting construction almost 20 years ago. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

This image released by NBC shows co-host Savannah Guthrie, center, with colleagues, from left, Jenna Bush Hager, Carson Daly, and Craig Melvin during the "Today" show in New York on Monday, April 6, 2026. (NBC/Today via AP)2026-04-06T04:09:26Z NEW YORK (AP) Savannah Guthrie was back and almost all business at NBCs Today show anchor desk on Monday, marking a return for the first time in more than two months since her mothers disappearance. Here we go, ready or not, Guthrie said as the show opened. Lets do the news.After running through a series of news headlines, Guthrie said that we are so glad that you started our week with us and its good to be home. Her co-host, Craig Melvin said that its good to have you back at home.She greeted longtime co-worker Al Roker with Good morning, Sunshine, when he noted that it was good to see her on the set. At the end of the first 25-minute portion of the show, she offered Melvin a high-five.Emotions got the better of her before the last half hour, when she joined her colleagues in front of fans gathered at the shows Rockefeller Center studio. She fought back tears when one fan was seen with a Welcome home Savannah shirt, and clutched colleague Jenna Bush Hagers arm and thanked people for their support. Guthrie says its hard to go forward not knowing what happenedGuthrie, one of morning televisions most recognizable faces, has been a Today host since 2012. She has acknowledged that shes a changed person and that its hard to go forward not knowing what happened to Nancy Guthrie, who authorities believe was taken against her will from her Arizona home.Despite an intense search involving thousands of federal and local officers and volunteers, there has been no sign of the 84-year-old mother of three since she was reported missing Feb. 1.The Today show has followed the story closely for the past two months, but it wasnt mentioned during the first hour of her return on Monday. Bringing things back to normal was clearly intentional: Her return wasnt referenced during interviews with NBCs Gabe Gutierrez at the White House and military analyst Steve Warren on the shows set. Hoda Kotb, the former anchor who had filled in for Guthrie for much of the past two months and interviewed her former colleague, wasnt on set Monday. Read More Today has seen a ratings boost over the past two months and has even eclipsed ABCs Good Morning America as the leader in the morning show ratings. The shows arent the profit generators they once were for the networks, but the rivalry is still intense. Today averaged 3.1 million viewers for the first three months of the year, up nearly 9% in an era most broadcast programs lose viewers. Its hard to tell how much the Guthrie story had to do with that: NBC also aired the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics in February, and both events tend to help a morning shows ratings.Good Morning America averaged 2.93 million viewers, up 2% over 2025 while CBS Mornings plunged 17% to 1.76 million, according to the Nielsen company.As part of a video message released by her New York church on Easter Sunday, Guthrie spoke about feeling moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment. But she said the resurrection is not fully celebrated if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death. In announcing her return to NBCs flagship morning show, Guthrie said she was uncertain whether shell feel like she still belongs.Its hard to imagine doing it because its such a place of joy and lightness, she said just over a week ago on Today during her first interview since the disappearance. I cant come back and try to be something that Im not. But I cant not come back because its my family.She didnt anticipate faking her way through the show, which is normally light-hearted with a mix of serious, breaking news.Guthries mom had made occasional visits to shows setThere had been a great deal of speculation about whether she would return. I want to smile, and when I do it will be real, she told Hoda Kotb, who came back to Today to fill in while Guthrie focused on the search. Being there is joyful, and when its not Ill say so.Nancy Guthrie made occasional appearances on Today over the years, once taking part in a cooking demonstration and surprising her daughter on the set. When Savannah Guthrie returned to her hometown of Tucson in 2025 for a segment recorded for the show, the two visited one of their favorite restaurants and talked about their love of Arizona. The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of their mother. Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will after finding blood near the doorstep of her home in the foothills outside Tucson. The FBI later released surveillance videos showing a masked man on the porch that night. Volunteers and search teams scoured the nearby desert terrain filled with cactuses, bushes and boulders in the first weeks after she vanished.But attention has faded from an investigation that was declared to be a top priority for the FBI and local authorities. Investigators have not released new evidence in weeks and say the number of tips has slowed. The FBI and the Pima County Sheriffs Department both said late last week that they had no updates. Early on, some media outlets reported receiving ransom messages tied to the case. Guthrie said she and her siblings responded to two that they believed were real and offered to pay.Guthrie said her celebrity status might be the reason her mother was taken, but said that possibility was too much to bear.___Associated Press correspondents John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, and Sarah Brumfield in Washington contributed to this report. 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Patrick McKeon, center, works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)2026-04-06T02:46:22Z NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. stock market is making only hesitant moves Monday, while oil prices are flip-flopping ahead of a deadline that President Donald Trump has set to bomb Iranian power plants.The S&P 500 edged up by 0.3% in midday trading, coming off its first winning week in the last six. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 100 points, or 0.2%, as of 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher.Oil prices likewise seesawed between gains and losses amid continued uncertainty about what will happen in the war with Iran and how long it will slow the global flow of oil and natural gas. Iran on Monday rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and instead said it wants a permanent end to the war, though the talks may not have collapsed.We wont merely accept a ceasefire, Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told The Associated Press. We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we wont be attacked again. Fighting is continuing, meanwhile, including an Israeli attack on an Iranian petrochemical plant. And in the background is the clock ticking toward a deadline, which Trump has moved multiple times, where he has threatened to attack Irans infrastructure if it does not open the Strait of Hormuz. A fifth of the worlds oil typically sails through the strait during peacetime. Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran, Trump said on his social media network over the weekend, threatening Iranian leaders that youll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Read More Monday also offered the first chance for U.S. stock prices to react to a report from Friday that said U.S. employers hired more workers last month than economists expected. The unemployment rate unexpectedly improved. Theyre encouraging signals for an economy thats had to absorb painful leaps in costs for gasoline since the wars beginning. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is nearly $4.12 across the country, according to AAA. It was below $3 a couple days before the United States and Israel launched attacks to begin the war in late February. For countries that dont produce as much oil as the United States, the pain has been even worse. Thats because they are more reliant on oil coming from the Middle East, and the war has blocked in much of the crude produced in the Persian Gulf area. That oil typically gets to customers around the world by exiting the Strait of Hormuz. The price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude rose 0.3% to $111.88 after erasing an earlier modest dip. Brent crude, the international standard, added 0.2% to $109.26 per barrel and remains well above its roughly $70 price from before the war. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. On Wall Street, a split performance for the Big Tech stocks that are the U.S. markets most influential kept things in check. Apple rose 1.2%, and Amazon added 1.4%, but Microsoft fell 0.5%.Bank stocks were some of the markets strongest, including a 1.6% rise for JPMorgan Chase. CEO Jamie Dimon said in his annual letter to shareholders released on Monday that the U.S. economy continues to be resilient, and businesses still look healthy. He, though, also acknowledged that prices for stocks and other assets are high, which could imply anything less than positive outcomes could have a dramatic impact on global markets.In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady. The 10-year Treasury yield was sitting at 4.32%. Thats still well above its 3.97% level from before the war.That rise has pushed up rates for mortgages and other loans going to U.S. households and businesses, slowing the economy.A report on Monday also said that finance, transportation and other U.S. businesses in services sectors grew in March for a 21st straight month of expansion. But the growth was slightly slower than economists expected, and a measure of prices accelerated at its fastest pace since 2022 in a potentially discouraging signal for inflation. In stock markets abroad, Japans Nikkei 225 added 0.5%, and South Koreas Kospi jumped 1.4%. Many other markets in Europe and Asia were closed for holidays. ___AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.

Travelers approach on foot the border crossing with Turkey at the Razi crossing in Razi, Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)2026-04-06T11:53:30Z ZANJAN, Iran (AP) A black banner hangs over the border crossing and portraits of Irans slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stare down, promising vengeance against the United States and Israel.But on the 12-hour drive south to the capital, Tehran, daily life continued, with only occasional signs of the ongoing war, including a Shiite religious center that officials say was damaged by a recent airstrike.Associated Press reporters made the journey on Saturday after crossing into Iran from Turkey. They gained a glimpse of the country at the center of a regional war that has jolted the world economy and shows no sign of ending five weeks after Khamenei was killed in the opening U.S. and Israeli salvo.The Associated Press has been granted permission by the Iranian government to send an additional team into the country for a brief reporting trip. AP already operates in Iran. The visiting team must be accompanied by a media assistant from a government-affiliated company. AP retains full editorial control of its content. A religious center damaged by an airstrikeThe first major sign of the wars destruction came in the northwestern city of Zanjan, about six hours drive from the border.Iranian officials say an airstrike hit a religious community center, known as a husseiniyah, killing two people and destroying a clinic and a library. Other parts of the compound, some of which is centuries old, suffered damage, including its golden dome.When asked about the strike, the Israeli military said it had hit a military headquarters, and that it tries to avoid harming civilian facilities, without elaborating. It has hurt me a lot and distressed me a lot, said Somayeh Shojaei, a local resident who has attended religious and cultural events at the center. With these airstrikes, (the U.S. and Israel) are showing their malicious intent to the whole world, she said. Read More The strike killed the librarys caretaker and a volunteer with the Iranian Red Crescent first responders, according to Jaafar Mohammadi, the provincial director of cultural and Islamic guidance. He said poor people had received free treatment at the clinic and students had made use of the library that housed more than 35,000 books, including antique manuscripts.He said he did not know why the complex was targeted. Iran wanted to negotiate for peace with (U.S. President Donald) Trump, but Trump responded with war, Mohammadi said. He started the war, but we will definitely be the victorious side. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. Life goes on in much of Iran despite fear and uncertaintyThe U.S. and Israel have carried out thousands of strikes across the country, and Trump has threatened to bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages, where they belong. Over the weekend, he reiterated a Monday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas.Irans surviving leaders have remained defiant and in control, rejecting what they say are unreasonable U.S. peace proposals. Israel has given no indication it plans to let up on its strikes, and has called on Iranians to overthrow their leaders.Even as the war generates global turmoil and fear and anxiety within Iran daily life goes on. In city after city on the road to Tehran, AP reporters saw normal traffic, businesses open and people walking the streets. A restaurant served Iranian delicacies like grilled lamb and rice, barley soup and saffron drinks as R.E.M.'s Losing my religion played on loudspeakers. Many women could be seen going about their day without wearing the theocracys mandatory head covering, the enforcement of which has eased in recent years.The team passed through two checkpoints on the approach to Tehran without being stopped.Destroyed government buildings and police stations in TehranThe city was eerily quiet after midnight. There had been heavy airstrikes on the mountains overlooking the capital the previous night.Tehran is on the front lines, having seen wave after wave of strikes that the U.S. and Israel say are aimed at the military and internal security forces. Authorities in Iran say over 1,900 people have been killed. Its unclear how many were soldiers or civilians.The AP reporters saw several government buildings and police stations that had been destroyed. They passed a number of checkpoints operated by plainclothes Basij, an internal security force, and uniformed members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. They were stopped once and asked to open the car and show press cards before being waved onward.Fuel is heavily subsidized, such that a gallon (4 liters) of gasoline costs around 15 U.S. cents. But people are only allowed to purchase around 5 gallons (20 liters) at a time. There were no signs of gas lines.Back in Zanjan, Mohamoud Maasoumi, a retired soldier, said the conflict with the U.S. the worlds arrogance goes back to a 1953 CIA-backed coup that is seared into the minds of many Iranians. He expressed hope that Irans leaders would defend the country.The enemy sees that we are not ever succumbing, he said.___Associated Press writer Sam Metz in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed.

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