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CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen on being the only western journalist in Iran: ‘It’s obviously a big responsibility’

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Network has faced Trump’s ire and Pleitgen has faced criticism, but it is ‘better to be on the ground’ he says

Frederik Pleitgen, CNN’s senior international correspondent, had a pretty normal Thursday evening – at home in Berlin with his family, he walked his two Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs and spent some time with his two teenagers.

That return to normalcy came after spending a week in war-torn Iran as the only western television correspondent given a visa to report from the country.

 

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