With negotiations to end the war in Iran now underway, experts widely agree that the Iranian government has the upper hand. But if the regime emerges from the war stronger than before, what does it mean for the people of Iran? Carter Sherman speaks with Shirin Jaafari, a journalist for the World who focuses on the Middle East, about her reporting on Iranians living through war, a devastated economy and a government that executes people who dare to protest. Carter Sherman and Kai Wright also speak about the lasting effect of this war in the US – and what Americans have already lost.

• Read Oliver Holmes on the global cost of US-Israel war against Iran

• Find Jason Burke’s analysis of the peace agreement between the US and Iran here