CNN Exclusive: Inside Iran
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:08.0 | War spreads beyond the Middle East as the US torpedoes and Iranian warship in international waters |
| 0:14.0 | and drones damage an airport in Azerbaijan. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, |
| 0:20.0 | Admiral Mike Mullen, joins me. |
| 0:22.0 | Then, a look inside this extraordinary and dangerous time in Iran, we hear from people inside |
| 0:28.2 | the country about what they are seeing and feeling. Plus, I ask historians Abbas Milani and |
| 0:34.5 | Scott Anderson, whether Iran is on the verge of another revolution. |
| 0:39.7 | Also ahead, democratic lawmakers try again to limit Trump's ability to wage war. |
| 0:45.3 | Harry Srinivasan speak to Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman about the latest efforts on Capitol Hill. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. |
| 1:15.4 | The war on Iran is spilling out beyond the Middle East, pulling in ever more countries. |
| 1:20.3 | Like Azerbaijan, where a drone struck an airport injuring two people, damaging the terminal. |
| 1:26.1 | Iran's military denies launching it. But it does come |
| 1:29.5 | just a day after NATO shot down a missile headed for Turkish airspace. The UK, France, Spain and |
| 1:36.2 | Italy have begun working to shore up European defenses in Cyprus after a British airpace on the island |
| 1:42.7 | was attacked earlier in the week. This video, |
| 1:45.6 | released by the IDF, shows Israeli jets en route to Iran, where it continues to pound targets, |
| 1:52.6 | hitting more Iranian missile sites and Hezbollah positions inside Lebanon. The US too is expanding |
| 1:59.6 | its war zone, torpedoing an Iranian warship in |
| 2:02.9 | international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing at least 87 Iranian sailors on board. |
| 2:10.0 | The U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth calls it a quiet death, while Iran's foreign minister |
| 2:15.5 | calls it an atrocity. And Iranian state media say that more |
| 2:19.7 | than 1,200 people have now been killed in Iran. Correspondent Fred Plitkin and his team |
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