Shockwaves: The Attack on Iran

World News Tonight with David Muir

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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ABC's David Muir leads special coverage on the attack on Iran. Featuring reports on what preceded the surprise deadly attack, President Trump's decision to launch Operation Epic Fury, the massive military operation between the United States and Israel and the reaction from Capitol Hill. With Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the attack, the special also looks at the country's explosive retaliation and what happens next strategically. Reporting live for the special are "This Week" co-anchor and chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz from Washington; chief international correspondent Ian Pannell from Tel Aviv, Israel; chief international correspondent James Longman from Istanbul, Turkey; foreign correspondent Marcus Moore from Doha, Quatar; correspondent Matt Rivers from Amman, Jordan; and also from Washington, chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce, "This Week" co-anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas and senior political correspondent Rachel Scott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight, the U.S. attack on Iran, the first American service members killed in action.
0:06.0	ABC News talking with President Trump just moments ago, what he said about how long this U.S. operation will last, and who leads Iran next?
0:14.0	The president saying the Iranians have reached out to him. Our ABC News special begins now.
0:20.0	Tonight, the U.S. confirming three American service members killed.
0:25.6	Casualties of the military operation against Iran.
0:29.6	President Trump addressing their deaths for the first time, paying tribute.
0:35.6	Warning, sadly there will likely be more before it ends.
0:39.3	Iranian officials confirming the death of the Supreme Leader and more than 40 Iranian
0:45.3	leaders, what a source is now telling ABC News.
0:48.3	The CIA had been tracking the Supreme Leader for months.
0:52.3	The U.S. moving up the timing of the attack
0:55.3	based on what they were seeing.
0:57.3	Tonight, the mission in Iran.
0:59.8	What does the future hold for a country long at odds with the U.S.?
1:04.4	Amid the public anti-America protests, what many people in Iran are quietly hoping for, and what the children of Iran told David
1:12.9	Muir more than a decade ago, and how it still resonates tonight. Here now, David Muir. Good evening.
1:21.7	As we come on the air tonight, the events unfolding in Iran and the Middle East are moving very
1:25.7	quickly. The U.S. now confirming three American
1:28.1	service members have been killed. They died during an Iranian attack in Kuwait, at least five other
1:33.3	Americans seriously wounded. A short time ago, President Trump arriving back at the White House,
1:38.1	earlier his first comments about the American deaths, paying tribute in calling them, quote,
1:42.7	true American patriots. The president vowing to avenge their deaths and them, quote, true American patriots.
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