Brief: US strikes Iran, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran continues, we’re coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: US strikes Iran. Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released. Israel continues to kill Palestinian aid seekers. It is day 625 of the war in Gaza, where at least 55,908 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Tohid Asadi, Al Jazeera Reporter
- Nour Odeh (@nourodeh), Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent
- Moath Kahlout (@moath_kahlout), Al Jazeera Journalist
- Phil Lavelle (phillavelle), Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was hosted by Nida Ibrahim and produced by Marthe van der Wolf. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nida Ibrahim, and this is the take. |
| 0:05.0 | As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:14.0 | This week, the United States strikes three nuclear sites in Iran. |
| 0:20.0 | Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released from U.S. detention. |
| 0:25.0 | Israel continues to kill Palestinian aid seekers. |
| 0:29.6 | Today is Sunday, June 22nd. |
| 0:32.3 | It's day 625 of the war in Gaza, where at least 55,908 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:43.3 | The United States carried out airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran early Sunday morning. |
| 0:50.3 | President Donald Trump says the sites have been obliterated. |
| 0:55.0 | Al Jazeera's Tuhid Asadi reports from Tehran shortly after the strikes. |
| 1:01.0 | Isfahan, Nathans and Fordo, these are very important nuclear sites that were targeted by the American strikes, |
| 1:07.0 | and they have been damaged indeed, as we are waiting for further investigations. |
| 1:11.6 | But still we've got two points in this regard. |
| 1:14.6 | First, the nuclear safety center for the organization came out with a statement to say that first, |
| 1:21.6 | we have no reports on nuclear contamination and second people can rest assured that they can continue their |
| 1:28.0 | ordinary lives, specifically those people who are living in the areas near these three facilities. |
| 1:34.0 | So we had this statement from one of the members of the parliament of home, which hosts |
| 1:39.9 | this for the facility, saying that the damages cause is not to that extent that the Americans |
| 1:46.5 | are claiming. |
| 1:49.0 | Israel and Iran continued to exchange missile and drone attacks. |
| 1:54.1 | It's the 10th day after Israel launched its initial strike on Iranian territory. |
| 1:59.8 | More than 400 people have been killed in Iran |
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