Bunkers unbusted: Israel and Iran
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The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
So far, Israel’s strikes have not accomplished the stated mission of crippling Iran’s nuclear programme. A war of endurance will be decided by which side runs out of materiel first. South Asia has not been heating up as fast as other regions—thanks in part to its notorious pollution. And a close listen to the music-production genius of the late Brian Wilson.
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| 1:03.5 | Over the past 40 years, South Asia has warmed far more slowly than any other part of the world. |
| 1:08.9 | Researchers are now questioning whether one surprising reason for this could be pollution. |
| 1:13.5 | And you could describe the Beach Boys songs co-written by the late Brian Wilson as one-dimensional |
| 1:16.8 | breezy pop. But our correspondent |
| 1:19.4 | digs deeper, finding many more musical dimensions |
| 1:22.6 | beneath the hummable melodies. |
| 1:34.3 | Music the hummable melodiesvers backing up, car alarms and mainly house alarms of the shops and homes that were destroyed here. |
| 2:04.8 | Anshilfeffer is our Israel correspondent and has been in Tel Aviv this morning looking at some of |
| 2:09.4 | the housing hit by Iranian missiles. |
| 2:12.1 | Around me, a lot of Tel Avivians have come to have a look. |
| 2:15.5 | Some of them are even still holding their plastic cups of coffee or juice. |
| 2:21.0 | It's a rather bizarre feeling of both people trying to go about their lives, |
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