Sunday, March 8, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is NBC Nightly News with Hallie Jackson. |
| 0:05.3 | Good evening. We begin with breaking news on multiple fronts related to Iran. |
| 0:09.7 | A new supreme leader there, new and escalating attacks, and now new word of another American killed in the war, a seventh U.S. service member. |
| 0:19.0 | Look at some of this video coming into us, showing a wall of fire over Tehran, |
| 0:23.2 | as the U.S. and Israel slam Iran's energy infrastructure, including oil depots. But Iran is hitting back. |
| 0:29.8 | Look at this here in Kuwait, this government building on fire after a drone attack. |
| 0:34.1 | And tonight, a pivotal moment for Iran with its government announcing its new supreme |
| 0:39.0 | leader, the son of the Ayatollah who was killed in a strike when the war began. We'll have more on |
| 0:43.8 | him in a moment and more from Norway, with police there investigating a possible connection between |
| 0:48.8 | the war and an attack on the U.S. embassy in Oslo. We've got all of it covered from around the world, |
| 0:53.5 | starting with Matt Bradley in Tel Aviv. Tonight, Israeli-American missile strikes lighting up the skies over |
| 1:00.0 | Iran for a ninth straight day. As U.S. Central Command reports that another American soldier has |
| 1:06.1 | died, raising the death toll among U.S. service members to seven. Senankam said the soldier died from wounds sustained during an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia a week ago. |
| 1:16.0 | An Iranian state media has officially announced its new leader, |
| 1:19.2 | Moshthama Hamenei, the son of the Iranian leader who was assassinated last week. |
| 1:23.6 | The 56-year-old was widely expected to be chosen and is considered a hardliner. |
| 1:28.8 | Today, Israel threatened to kill the new leader, and President Trump had insisted that he should be able to pick who's in charge of the country. |
| 1:36.2 | An idea Iran's foreign minister rejected an interview today with NBC's Kristen Welker. |
| 1:40.7 | Will Iran allow President Trump to have any role in picking its new leader? |
| 1:46.4 | We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs. This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new |
| 1:54.7 | leader. It comes as there's a new focus for Israeli attacks, Iranian energy installations like this |
| 2:00.4 | fuel depot, and gas pipelines |
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