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NPR News: 04-04-2026 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwa Halisa Kowtow.

0:07.0

U.S. forces are continuing their search for an American service member who ejected out of an F-15 jet shot down by Iran on Friday.

0:16.4

Another crew member, the pilot was rescued and is being treated, a second U.S. combat plane down

0:22.3

near the Strait of Hormuz.

0:24.4

Aaron David Miller is a former State Department official and senior fellow with the Carnegie

0:29.3

Endowment for International Peace.

0:31.4

It's extraordinary, frankly, in the thousands of sorters that both the Americans and Israelis

0:35.7

have flown that this is the first time that

0:37.8

you had it down to aircraft. But it is, I think, tremendously symbolic. It suggests that the

0:43.2

Americans don't have total escalation dominance of the airspace. Iranians still have capacity,

0:48.2

not to mention the propaganda value of this, assuming the Iranians find the airmen.

0:54.4

Aaron David Miller, senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

0:59.6

Russia says it is continuing to evacuate its staff from Iran's loan operational nuclear

1:05.2

plant amid ongoing U.S. Israeli attacks.

1:08.2

The latest exit comes as Tehrans said its nuclear facility had come under

1:13.3

attack, killing an Iranian security guard from Moscow. NPR's Charles Mainz reports.

1:19.2

The head of Russia's nuclear energy agency, Ross Adams, Alexei Likachov, said nearly 200 Russian

1:24.7

workers departed the Boucher nuclear facility by bus minutes before the plant was hit,

1:29.5

and were now en route out of Iran.

1:31.5

Likachov, who's been slowly pulling his staff of 700 Russian workers from the nuclear plant

1:36.2

since the U.S. Israeli attacks began over a month ago, suggested a full withdrawal was now imminent.

1:41.9

Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel of repeatedly targeting

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