News Wrap: Iran vows crackdown on 'rioters' amid protests over economy
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🗓️ 3 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Today's other news, Iran's supreme leader vowed today to crack down on demonstrators |
| 0:05.0 | following days of protests. In his first public remarks since they began, Ayatollah Ali |
| 0:10.8 | Hamani said rioters must be, quote, put in their place. Demonstrations will soon stretch |
| 0:16.5 | into their second week as the country's currency, the Rial, plummets. |
| 0:24.9 | On Friday, President Trump warned Iran the U.S. would come to the rescue of any peaceful protesters who face violence. |
| 0:27.7 | President Trump also weighed in on the war in Ukraine today, saying he's frustrated with |
| 0:33.0 | Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:35.1 | He told reporters Putin is killing too many people. That comes as |
| 0:39.6 | European national security advisors convened in Kiev to discuss the latest peace proposals. |
| 0:45.2 | The U.S. is currently behind a diplomatic push to end the almost four-year-old war. |
| 0:50.6 | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with European leaders next Tuesday in Paris. |
| 0:57.2 | Still to come on PBS News weekend, why the city of San Francisco is suing the nation's top food manufacturers over ultra-processed foods. |
| 1:06.1 | And how the Census Bureau counts every last person, even in the most remote parts of the U.S. |
| 1:15.3 | This is PBS News Weekend from the David M. Rubenstein Studio at WETA in Washington, home of the PBS News Hour, weeknights on PBS. |
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