Former U.S. ambassador to Israel analyzes rising Israel-Iran conflict
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🗓️ 14 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And now to the Middle East, where Israel and Iran have traded more missile strikes. |
| 0:05.1 | Iran's state TV reported that about 60 people, including 20 children, were killed by an |
| 0:10.4 | Israeli strike on a housing complex in Tehran. |
| 0:13.4 | In Israel, Iranian missiles and drones have killed three and wounded dozens. |
| 0:18.0 | Dron footage from south of Tel Aviv shows the damage there. The sixth round of |
| 0:22.8 | U.S. Iran talks in Oman on Tehran's nuclear program scheduled for tomorrow have been canceled. |
| 0:28.8 | Daniel Shapiro was U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017. Mr. Ambassador, Israel says |
| 0:34.9 | one of their main goals is to destroy Iran's ability to create a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:40.5 | Can the Israeli military, does it have the capability to do that by itself? |
| 0:45.3 | Israel has already, since it started these strikes 48 hours ago, done significant damage to the Iranian nuclear program. |
| 0:51.5 | They've struck the Natanz and enrichment facility, perhaps destroyed it. |
| 0:55.1 | They're attacking another facility and Esfahan. But the big question is, do they have the capability |
| 1:00.3 | to take out the deeply buried underground facility called Fordo? That has generally been assessed to be |
| 1:05.8 | reachable only by heavy bombs and strategic bombers that only the United States possesses. |
| 1:10.9 | But I wouldn't underestimate Israel's ability to find solutions. |
| 1:14.5 | They've shown incredible ingenuity and creativity in Pager and beeper attacks against Hezbollah, |
| 1:19.9 | in attacking a weapons facility in Syria, and even in these strikes and smuggling drones into Iran |
| 1:26.3 | that it used in the early hours. |
| 1:28.3 | So they may have solutions and surprises that we haven't thought of, but that's really the key test. |
| 1:33.1 | Can they destroy or would somebody else help them destroy the Ford of Underground Facility? |
| 1:38.5 | Where is Iran's retaliation going to go? |
| 1:41.0 | Can they escalate what they've been doing? |
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