Iranian TV Bombed By Israel As Presenter Flees

Описание: Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment Iranian state TV came under attack.

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Video showed a female newsreader speaking to the camera when a loud explosion is heard, smoke seen, and what looks like part of the newsroom’s ceiling falling. The shouts of the newsreader’s colleagues can also be heard. The blast occurred as the presenter was live on television lambasting Israel before she was seen leaving the live broadcast.

Israel’s order to evacuate “immediately” was specifically aimed at residents of an affluent northern neighbourhood of Tehran known as “District 3”. The area houses government ministries, foreign embassies and museums.

“In the coming hours, the [Israeli miliary] will operate in the area, as it has in recent days throughout Tehran, to strike military infrastructure of the Iranian regime,” the military said in a post on X in Persian, indicating a part of Tehran’s District 3 on a map and telling citizens to “evacuate the marked area” for safety.

Some 300,000 people live in the district, according to official figures.

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