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CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen Arrives In Tehran; First Western Journalist To Enter Country Since Start Of Latest Conflict With Israel, Network Says


Pleitgen is the first western journalist to enter the country since the start of the conflict with Israel.

In a digital video, Pleitgen, traveling with his producer, also described driving through a “substantial part” of Iran to get to Tehran, where it “appears to be almost business as usual.” President Donald Trump said earlier on Wednesday that he had not yet decided on whether the U.S. would take part in further efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear arsenal. CNN earlier in the day featured Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi, who told her, “If the Americans decide to get involved militarily, we have no choice but to retaliate, wherever we find the targets necessary to be acted upon.”

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