Growing Uncertainty Over Iran's Future
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | Israel says it killed Iran's security chief, calling it a significant blow to the regime. |
| 0:14.0 | Middle East expert Karim Sa Japhore joins me to discuss what's next. |
| 0:18.0 | And Jamana Karachi reports on the Iranians caught between strikes and security forces. |
| 0:24.6 | Then at least 400 reportedly killed in an air strike on an Afghan hospital, adding yet more suffering for civilians there. |
| 0:34.6 | I speak to former Afghan lawmaker Fausia Kufi, also ahead. |
| 0:39.1 | When you're looking at the averages of these models, their accuracy rate is as low as 50%. |
| 0:44.7 | The role of artificial intelligence in America's military strategy in Iran and beyond. |
| 0:51.2 | AI scientist Heidi Kloff joins Hari Srinivasa to share her serious safety concerns |
| 0:57.4 | about autonomous weapons systems. Welcome to the program, everyone. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm Biana Goldregor, New York, sitting in for Christian Ammanpur. |
| 1:19.8 | Iran's top security official has been, quote, eliminated. |
| 1:23.0 | That is, according to Israel's defense minister, who says Ali Larajani was killed in a targeted IDF strike. |
| 1:30.0 | I was just updated by the chief of staff that the Secretary of the National Security Council |
| 1:35.2 | Larijiani and the head of the Basijes, the central repression body of Iran, |
| 1:40.0 | Salimani were eliminated last night and joined the head of annihilation program Kamani and |
| 1:45.6 | all the eliminated members of the Axis of Evil in the depths of hell. |
| 1:51.0 | Larajani was one of Iran's top decision makers, some calling him the de facto leader |
| 1:55.6 | since the assassination of his former boss, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. |
| 2:00.8 | Larjani's killing, if confirmed, plunges the nation and its future into even more uncertainty. |
| 2:06.7 | The IDF is pressing on with its offensive, conducting wide-scale attacks across Iran. |
| 2:12.4 | And Iran is retaliating, launching strikes across the Middle East from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq to energy facilities in the UAE. |
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