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NPR News: 03-16-2026 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Iran is threatening to take out satellites and media infrastructure associated with a Persian language news organization that's based in London.

0:13.4

NPR's Arzou-Rzbani has more.

0:15.4

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says that in the coming hours, it will strike industries across the region that are associated

0:21.7

with the U.S. The group is urging workers to evacuate and civilians to avoid areas near production

0:27.7

facilities. The message was first reported by Iran's task name news agency, which is associated

0:33.5

with the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Last week, the news agency published a list of major U.S. companies in a social media post

0:40.2

that included Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir.

0:43.7

The Revolutionary Guards threat came soon after Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arachi,

0:48.9

called on neighboring countries that host U.S. forces to clarify their positions on the war, adding that certain countries

0:55.9

are, quote, encouraging this slaughter. Arzurzvani, NPR News, Urbiel in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

1:03.3

The U.K.'s prime minister has rebuffed President Trump's demands that he and other allies sent

1:09.1

warships to secure the strait of Hormuz. That key oil supply route

1:13.6

has become imperiled by U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian retaliation. And here's Lauren

1:19.8

Friar has more. UK Prime Minister Kier Starmor says he's working with allies on a plan to reopen

1:25.1

the Strait of Hormuz. He told reporters it will not be a NATO mission

1:28.7

and says the UK...

1:30.0

...will not be drawn into the wider war.

1:33.6

Starmour has given the U.S. only limited access to British military bases for what he

1:38.4

calls defensive operations only. Trump has reacted with personal insults against Starmor.

1:43.7

But at every stage, I've stood by my principles.

1:47.1

Most Britons oppose the war on Starmer, a human rights lawyer by training, said his relations with Trump are still good.

1:54.0

He told reporters the UK is evacuating Britons from the Gulf, supporting them in Lebanon

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