PDB Afternoon Bulletin | March 3rd, 2026: Israel Hits Council Choosing Iran’s Next Leader & Drones Hit U.S. Embassy
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, welcome to the |
| 0:01.9 | ever click in, |
| 0:02.9 | you're |
| 0:03.2 | too much |
| 0:03.2 | on the world |
| 0:03.7 | on the world |
| 0:19.5 | stage. |
| 0:20.5 | All right, let's get briefed. |
| 0:22.8 | First up, Israel targets the so-called assembly of experts, and that's the 88-member committee |
| 0:29.2 | responsible for choosing Iran's next supreme leader in an effort to prolong Tehran's |
| 0:35.1 | leadership vacuum. |
| 0:36.6 | Later in the show, Iran expands its retaliatory |
| 0:39.8 | strikes, launching drone strikes on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, of course. |
| 0:46.6 | But first, today's afternoon spotlight. The Israeli Air Force has struck the building in the city of |
| 0:52.5 | Qum housing Iran's Assembly of Experts, |
| 0:55.7 | that's the group of clerics responsible for appointing a new Supreme Leader. |
| 1:00.3 | According to an Israeli defense official, the strike occurred while votes were being counted |
| 1:04.8 | to select a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, who was killed in the opening wave of U.S. |
| 1:10.4 | Israeli strikes on Saturday. |
| 1:12.6 | The Assembly of Experts is an 88-member clerical body with the constitutional authority to |
| 1:17.8 | appoint and theoretically dismiss Iran's supreme leader. A smaller internal committee drafts a |
| 1:23.8 | shortlist and then the full group votes. Israeli officials made their intent explicit, telling Axios, quote, |
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