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Tehran endures 4th day of intense bombardment from U.S.-Israeli forces

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Iran experienced a fourth straight day of airstrikes from U.S. and Israeli forces. Special correspondent Reza Sayah reports from Tehran. 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 our special correspondent in Tehran, Reza Sejia.

0:05.0

Reza, more airstrikes on this now fourth day of war.

0:08.0

Tell us about what you saw today.

0:10.0

Yeah, just another intense, unnerving, frightening day of air strikes here in the capital Tehran.

0:17.0

And it just continues to be an astonishing scene, seeing these jet fighters, hearing them

0:23.8

zoom ahead, and then hearing these earth-shaking explosions followed by thick foams of smoke.

0:30.4

The most intense air raids taking place overnight from about midnight to 2 a.m.

0:35.5

Then it was a quiet morning morning and then during the afternoon hours

0:38.8

in broad daylight, more air strikes. Meanwhile, we've seen Iranian state TV has been reporting

0:45.3

that funeral and burial plans for the late Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, are now

0:50.5

underway. What more can you tell us about that?

0:54.5

Yeah, Iranian officials say they're planning for it, but few other details. They say there's

0:59.8

going to be a ceremony here in Tehran, and they say the late Supreme Leader is going to be

1:04.7

buried in his hometown of Mashad in the shrine of Emam Reza. And obviously, this is going to pose a huge challenge for the establishment,

1:15.0

for the government. They want to project stability and continuation. They want to honor the

1:20.7

supreme leader, a spiritual leader, that to them died an ideal death being martyred in the

1:27.4

month of Ramadan at the hands

1:29.1

of the very same countries that he preached against. So they see this as an opportunity to

1:34.9

energize their base, but obviously this is a country that's under attack being bombed every day.

1:43.0

How are they going to plan this? How are they going to execute it?

1:46.1

We'll wait and see.

1:47.5

Reza, as you know, when we've spoken about when he first announced the U.S. and Israeli strikes,

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