CNN‘s Frederik Pleitgen recently returned after a week from inside Iran, as part of the first American network team to enter the country since the start of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on the country.
Along with photojournalist and producer Claudia Otto, Pleitgen trekked by vehicle to Tehran and back, reporting on the apocalyptic scene of strikes on oil facilities, the devastation in an eastern neighborhood of the city and pro-government demonstrations, among other stories.
There were some elements of normalcy, Pleitgen said, with some shops and restaurants open, and he and Otto stayed at the same small apartment hotel complex that they have in previous visits. A difference is the concern over being near a potential target, as they “took a lap around the block” to see if there were any government buildings close by.
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