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Residents flee Iran's capital as agency says death toll in Tehran tops 1,000

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The Red Crescent in Iran reports that 1,000 people have been killed in Tehran by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. Geoff Bennett discussed the latest with special correspondent Reza Sayah. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Let's turn now to NewsHour Special Correspondent Rezaea in Tehran.

0:04.0

It's good to see you.

0:05.0

So what did it look like today in Tehran?

0:07.0

Bring us up to speed.

0:08.0

Yeah, more airstrikes, more air raids in the capital of Tehran on this fifth day of this war.

0:15.0

Some of those airstrikes taking place right over my left shoulder that's northern Tehran earlier the day to my left

0:23.2

in eastern Tehran. And that's where you had that same sequence that we're so used to. You hear

0:29.3

jet fighters going up above a few seconds later. You hear loud explosions and thick plumes of smoke.

0:37.0

It is these airstrikes, these explosions that are chasing away many Iranians from this

0:42.8

massive city.

0:43.8

My guess is millions of people have left the city, fled the city to get to somewhere,

0:49.1

another city that's not being pounded by bombs.

0:53.3

Israeli officials, U.S. officials continue to say they're hitting military targets mostly,

0:58.1

but they also acknowledge hitting police stations and government buildings, and oftentimes

1:02.6

around those buildings, you have residential areas, residential apartments, and again today,

1:09.0

we saw more gruesome, heartbreaking pictures of civilians injured being

1:14.4

pulled out of the rubble and the death toll, according to the Red Crescent's Rescue and

1:19.0

aid group here in Iran has eclipsed a thousand people. What more can you tell us about the

1:25.1

response? What Tehran muses is a bluster. They understand that in this

1:30.8

war there's going to be a lot of bluster from Washington and they dismiss it. They have their own bluster.

1:35.9

They say they're the ones that are inflicting pain. And as far as claims that their command center

1:41.6

has been destroyed, remember Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Aroft, he said they're operating without a command center has been destroyed. Remember, Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arox,

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