The FOX News Rundown: U.S. And Israel Strike Iran

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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As 'Operation: Epic Fury' rolls on with great speed and success against the IRGC, the future Iran could be ruled by a group of factions that haven't agreed until recently. In a historic and unprecedented development, a broad cross-section of the Iranian opposition, including monarchists, liberals, and ethnic minority representatives, has formally united under one umbrella: the Iran Freedom Congress (IFC). It marks the first time since 1979 that such ideologically diverse factions have come together in a single organized front. Representatives from these groups met in London late February and will meet again at the end of March to discuss what an Iran free from Ayatollah rule could look like. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Mehrdad 'Marty' Youssefiani, who served for nearly two decades as chief strategic counselor to Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince and a prominent figure in the Iranian opposition, and Shahryar Ahy, and an advocate for democratic transition in Iran, who says it will take a coalition of opposition groups to stabilize the country. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm David Asman.
0:01.0	I'm Janice Dean.
0:02.1	I'm Jimmy Phala.
0:03.0	And this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.0	Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026.
0:10.9	I'm Eben Brown.
0:12.4	War against Iran's regime continues with both the U.S. and Israel's striking targets and terror proxies.
0:19.1	But what happens when the dust settles and it's time for
0:22.2	Iranians to rebuild? The only solution for a peaceful transition can only be a pluralistic approach
0:31.3	where everybody is included. No one single ideology has the dominance to carry the entire
0:37.3	nation. This is the Fox to carry the entire nation.
0:37.9	This is the Fox News Rundown, U.S. and Israel strike Iran.
0:46.5	The Ayatollah is dead.
0:49.0	Israeli strikes on regime targets in Iran purportedly kill his successors, his ministers, and as bureaucrats that could
0:56.5	potentially keep the government of Iran's Islamic Republic alive and fighting. And this means the Islamic
1:02.7	regime, which first rose to power in a violent overthrow of Iran's ruling Shah in 1979,
1:09.0	could be on its own deathbed.
1:12.5	But what comes next?
1:15.6	Remnants of Islamic Theocracy won't go quietly,
1:19.9	and while there are loud and large protests demanding civil rights and democracy,
1:23.8	just how ready are they to take levers of power and not enforce a new brutality or retribution,
1:29.6	who will craft a new system that ensures rights of Iran's non-Persian minorities, which includes Kurds, Arabs, Azeris, Balak, Lur,
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