After Donald Trump bombs Iran, what comes next?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The US has bombed nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz. Meanwhile in Washington, political parties are divided about President Donald Trump’s decision to strike. What could be next in what many fear to be a regional war?
In this episode:
- Akbar Shahid Ahmed, (@AkbarSAhmed), HuffPost Senior Diplomatic Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, and Chloe K. Li, with Remas Alhawari and our guest host, Natasha Del Toro. It was edited by Ney Alvarez.
The Take production team is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Spencer Cline, Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Ashish Malhotra, Haleema Shah, Khaled Soltan, Amy Walters, and Noor Wazwaz. Our editorial interns are Remas Alhawari, Mariana Navarrete, and Kisaa Zehra. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, after pledging to be a peacemaker, Donald Trump bombs Iran. |
| 0:17.1 | Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. |
| 0:25.1 | Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. |
| 0:30.9 | So what led him down this path? And what comes next? |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is the take. |
| 0:50.7 | The U.S. strikes in Iran are just the latest developments in a region where tensions continue to escalate. |
| 0:57.4 | As Israel continues its war on Gaza, it also began bombing Iran earlier this month, |
| 1:02.6 | saying it was targeting Iran's ability to produce nuclear weapons. |
| 1:06.4 | So Israel says it has struck multiple sites across Iran. |
| 1:09.7 | It struck Natanz, and Iraq. The military also |
| 1:13.5 | hit near Iran's heavy water facility at Kondab, which is part of the country's nuclear program. |
| 1:20.7 | But Israel's bombing campaign has now killed at least 430 people and wounded more than 3,000, many of them civilians. Iran has also struck back, killing at least 430 people and wounded more than 3,000, many of them civilians. |
| 1:29.5 | Iran has also struck back, killing at least 25 people in Israel. |
| 1:34.0 | But Donald Trump's decision to join Israel's war with Iran has now taken the conflict to another |
| 1:39.2 | level. And it's something our guest today has been following closely. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm Akbar Shahid Ahmed, the senior diplomatic correspondent for Huff Post, based in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:50.5 | So Akbar, after weeks of sort of will he or won't he when it came to the possibility of Donald Trump ordering strikes on Iran, |
| 1:59.7 | he went forward with it on Saturday night, |
| 2:01.6 | hitting three nuclear sites in the country. |
| 2:04.4 | Maybe you could tell us, what do we know about these strikes |
| 2:07.0 | and how the operation was planned and conducted? |
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