CNN Steps In for Demolished Iranian State Media HQ, Carries Story of Popular Anger and Threat of Revenge– freebeacon.com Source Link Excerpt:
‘There’s actually someone’s lunch at their desk standing here, which they probably would have been wanting to eat until they had to evacuate the building,’ correspondent Frederik Pleitgen says while holding up a melted spoon
CNN reporter Frederik Pleitgen toured the Iranian state-controlled broadcasting headquarters that Israeli warplanes struck, pointing out the regime’s destroyed tech and food remains as he noted that the attack had sparked calls for “revenge.”
“You can see the damage is absolutely massive. I‘m standing in the atrium right now, but if you look around this whole area has been completely destroyed,” Pleitgen, a CNN senior international correspondent, said as the camera panned over the demolished office.
“All of the offices, all of the technology that they have inside here, the broadcast technology, everything has been rendered pretty much useless,” he added. The screen showed phones, keyboards, computers, and other tech that looked decades old.
A hijab-clad presenter was reading regime propaganda on the state-run Akharin Khabar network when it was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Monday. The anchor quickly ran off screen as others shouted in the background.