Attacks on Iran continue for a sixth day
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Explosions have again been heard in locations across Tehran, as darkness fell in Iran's capital. Earlier the United States and Israel stepped up their attacks on Iranian cities, including Karaj and Isfahan, where eyewitnesses described bodies lying in the street. Also, President Trump has said he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader.
Also in the programme: US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is replaced; and how to recognise a real Stradivarius.
(Photo: A view of the Azadi sports complex after the airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, 05 March 2026. CREDIT: ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.2 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:17.5 | And the programme is dominated today by America and Israel's airstrikes on Iran, although we will be looking at a few other stories too, including President Trump's decision to fire his controversial homeland security secretary, Christy Noam. |
| 0:30.0 | But those attacks on Iran have been continuing for a sixth stay, as well as Iranian retaliation on its close neighbours across the waters of the Gulf, |
| 0:38.8 | including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Israel has also been stepping up its |
| 0:44.2 | bombardment of Iran's proxy force, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. We'll be hearing from there in a few |
| 0:50.2 | minutes. We'll also be looking at how Sri Lanka, a long way away in the Indian Ocean, |
| 0:55.0 | has been brought into this war. But we are going to start in Iran itself. Today, President Trump |
| 1:00.8 | told the new site Axios that he has to be involved in the appointment of a successor to the |
| 1:06.0 | Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an air strike on Saturday. And he said he couldn't accept Hamene's son as that successor, calling him a lightweight. |
| 1:15.4 | We want someone, he said, that will bring harmony and peace to Iran. |
| 1:19.5 | Well, at the moment, that's not the experience of Iranians |
| 1:21.7 | that the BBC's Persian language service has managed to speak to. |
| 1:25.7 | People were not naming for their safety. |
| 1:28.2 | This man told us what happened in the city of Isfahan in central Iran. |
| 1:33.1 | The situation is really, really terrifying. I never imagined in my worst nightmares that we would |
| 1:38.4 | become diswar-stricken. In Isfahan, they hit Kava district. Around 30 ordinary civilians were killed. At the Niro, |
| 1:46.8 | Hawaii Square, they struck a helicopter manufacturing facility. There are many bodies torn apart |
| 1:52.8 | on the ground. My cousin and his partner lived on the Shariati Street in Tehran. Both of them |
| 1:58.5 | were killed in a strike. This was another voice from Isfahan, |
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