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Mourners gather around the flag-draped coffins of the Iranian armed forces generals, nuclear scientists and their family members who were killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 28, 2025 Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption

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Mourners gather around the flag-draped coffins of the Iranian armed forces generals, nuclear scientists and their family members who were killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 28, 2025

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With a shaky truce between Israel and Iran holding, activists say the Iranian government is hunting for people it suspects of collaborating with Israel. Iranian state media reports hundreds have been taken into custody in the last two weeks and some are fleeing into neighboring countries, including Turkey. We hear from some.

And, during the air war with Israel, one young Iranian woman turned to Chat GPT for information and comfort.

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