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They're also killing civilians.
He told us his 26-year-old cousin was among civilians killed.
This man himself had just left Iran about a week before for Turkey, where I am, and he showed me these oil stains on his jacket, which he said were from fallout when Israel struck Iranian oil depots in early March.
that then sent flaming oil droplets in the air.
And he says his cousin who died had risked his life protesting against the government in Iran in January.
He himself wants this government to fall, but he acknowledges the cost is so painfully high.
And so you see these really painful choices that Iranians are grappling with, including the question of whether this war is going to be worth the many, many deaths of people they love around them.
Thanks, Scott.
An estimated hundreds of Iranians are crossing into Turkey each day, some to escape bombing, others simply to connect to internet, which the government has blocked in Iran.
This man speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of being arrested said people are trying to live normally in Iran despite the bombing.
He says he hopes the strikes can topple his government, but he mourns for the civilians killed in the strike.
Israel said it had killed the IRGC's top spokesperson Ali Mohammed Naimi overnight in an airstrike, and joint U.S.
and Israeli strikes also killed a senior commander in the IRGC, as well as Iran's security chief Ali Larajani this week.
Emily Fang, NPR News, Van, Turkey.
In 2020, North Korea closed its borders to fend off the then-necent COVID-19 pandemic.
That shot of access to the hermit kingdom, even to neighboring China, which is a close economic and political partner of North Korea's.
But this week, trains will run between Beijing and Pyongyang again four times a week, and Air China will resume flights to North Korea at the end of March.
Both countries are run by autocratic communist rulers, and North Korea and China have had a close economic, though sometimes politically strained, relationship for decades.
The two countries still do about $2 billion worth of trade each year, much of it passing through the northern Chinese border town of Dandong, separated only by the Yalu River from North Korea.