NPR News: 02-28-2026 6PM EST
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
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| 0:19.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:23.8 | President Trump says Iran's supreme leader is dead, though Iran hasn't confirmed his death. |
| 0:29.3 | A source tells NPR it happened in Israeli strikes. |
| 0:32.6 | The UN Security Council is meeting an emergency session today over the U.S. |
| 0:36.6 | and Israeli military strikes on Iran. |
| 0:38.8 | The Secretary General is urging diplomats to help bring the region back from the brink, as NPR's |
| 0:43.7 | Michelle Kellerman reports. |
| 0:45.2 | UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez opened the session by condemning the, quote, massive U.S. |
| 0:51.2 | and Israeli military strikes against Iran, as well as the Iranian strikes on |
| 0:55.9 | seven Gulf states. |
| 0:57.7 | Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control |
| 1:03.5 | in the most volatile region of the world. |
| 1:07.2 | Iran is telling the U.N. that it has the right to respond, describing U.S. military bases in the region as legitimate military targets. |
| 1:15.6 | Israel's ambassador brushed off criticism, saying, while some call this aggression, Israel sees it as a necessity, adding that the time for the Iranian people to take control of their future is, in his words, very soon. |
| 1:29.7 | Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington. And in Tehran, some residents say security forces |
| 1:35.9 | reinforce their presence in the streets after the attacks. And here's Jane Arraf has more. |
| 1:40.9 | One West Tehran resident told NPR by phone that bakeries and supermarkets |
| 1:46.0 | were packed. She said streets were almost empty in residential neighborhoods she had seen, |
| 1:51.0 | apart from a show of force by internal security forces. Many of them are on the streets on |
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