Day 626 - After sending the B-2s, Trump talks Iran regime change

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.

Horovitz notes that it isn't definitively clear how much damage has been wreaked on Iranian nuclear facilities by US and Israeli strikes in Iran. He refers to the term "obliteration," used by US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, to describe the result of the American strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities early on Sunday, but stresses that the US military has only publicized an initial damage assessment to date. He discusses Trump's late Sunday remark about potential regime change in Iran -- issued after all his key officials stressed this was not America's goal.

Horovitz also comments on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pre-recorded press conference on Sunday evening, in which he vowed that Iran's ongoing fire on Israel would not become a war of attrition. He also looks at the prime minister's cryptic comments regarding the relative failure of Iranian drone attacks and the whereabouts of Iran's stockpiles of enriched uranium.

The conversation with Horovitz also touches on geopolitical dynamics, including Russia's relationship with Iran, and the routes followed by Israeli citizens trying to return home amidst the conflict.

Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.

For further reading:

‘MIGA!’: Trump floats Tehran regime change as Iran’s proxies said prepping to hit US bases

Netanyahu: Israel very close to reaching goals in Iran, will avoid ‘war of attrition’

Iran, Russia set to hold talks as Tehran fumes at US over strikes

Aryeh Deri says October 7 ‘saved the nation of Israel,’ avoiding deadlier attack and exposing Iran

Despite travel warning, majority of returning Israelis do so via Jordan and Egypt

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IMAGE: This handout satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 22, 2025, shows Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom, after US strikes on the site. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. It is Monday, June 23rd, and I'm Jessica Steinberg.
0:09.0	I'm speaking today with Times of Israel founding editor David Horowitz. Hi, David. Good morning.
0:14.0	Good morning, Jessica. Good morning. It is day 626 of the war.
0:19.7	Sarin just ran across most of Israel this morning, just about 15 minutes
0:23.9	ago. In our headlines right now, we have U.S. President Donald Trump floating the idea of a
0:29.9	Tehran regime change. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night in a pre-recorded
0:35.8	press conference that Israel will avoid a, quote,
0:39.4	war of attrition. The U.S. is also warning its citizens of a heightened threat.
0:45.0	We will talk about all of those issues, what we're hearing from the U.S., what we're hearing here.
0:51.3	Skies opening up a little bit for flights out of Israel, just a tad. Iran and Russia,
0:57.9	and more of that, so stay with us.
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1:18.3	with thoughtful podcasts, videos, and articles that help you make sense of what's happening in Israel
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1:35.6	B-I-O-S-T-O-I-25. Okay. Where to start? Let's start with the statement by President Donald Trump talking, you know, tweets obviously about the possibility of a regime change,
2:03.5	about the obliteration, that's his word of the Iranian threat. Given everything that's been
2:09.5	happening in this, now 10 days of this, what's your take on all of it, David? Well, it's not clear
2:17.1	how much damage the American strikes did.
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