Iran condemns US attacks on its nuclear facilities
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Iran's foreign minister says the US crossed a big red line by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. We ask what options Tehran has now. Also: Markets are reacting calmly so far, but worries remain.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special edition of the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Sunday the 22nd of June, these are our headlines. |
| 0:11.4 | Iran condemns the US attacks on its nuclear facilities as a betrayal of diplomacy. |
| 0:16.9 | Donald Trump says US bombers have totally obliterated Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities, |
| 0:23.1 | but Tehran denies that they've been destroyed. Also in this podcast, we look at the consequences |
| 0:29.1 | for financial markets and what options does Iran have to respond to the attacks? |
| 0:38.6 | In our earlier podcast, we brought to news of the US attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran. |
| 0:44.6 | President Trump said the Iranian nuclear installations had been completely obliterated. |
| 0:50.3 | Shortly before we recorded this podcast, the US Defense Secretary. Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth gave an update. |
| 0:56.4 | This is a plan that took months and weeks of positioning and preparation so that we could be ready when the President of the United States called. |
| 1:06.4 | It took a great deal of precision. It involved misdirection and the highest of operational security. |
| 1:16.5 | Our B-2s went in and out of downtown Tehran's, these nuclear sites, in and out and back, without the world knowing at all. |
| 1:25.6 | In that way, it was historic. |
| 1:26.7 | Our Washington correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, spoke to my colleague James Kumasami. |
| 1:31.8 | We're getting a timeline which involves some of these bombers, around five of these big bombers, |
| 1:37.8 | taking off to the east from the United States. There was a decoy sent westwards, |
| 1:42.7 | which the chairman of the Joint chiefs has been talking about. |
| 1:46.4 | He's talked about the other assets that were involved, including a submarine which fired a bunch of Tomahawk cruise missiles, which we know about. |
| 1:55.2 | It seems that around 14 of these huge bombs were used, these 30,000000 pound bombs were dropped against two targets, |
| 2:02.9 | he says. That will be Fordo and one of the other two that we know about 75 precision guided |
| 2:09.2 | weapons used in the whole process. Interestingly, he said that the battle damage will take some time |
| 2:16.8 | to assess, but there is extremely severe damage, |
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