Iran & Israel: Allies to Enemies

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tensions between Iran and Israel have escalated with a recent Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities and retaliation from Iran. The two countries openly carried out attacks on each other for the first time last year, in April and October, after a years long shadow war. But have Iran and Israel always been at odds? Dan is revisiting this episode from April 2024 with Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who founded the news website IranWire; Bahari explains how these two nations went from partners in the Middle East to implacable enemies.

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0:37.2	the 13th of June 2025.
0:40.6	We are all digesting the news that last night waves of Israeli strikes hit targets across Iran.
0:47.4	Israel says that the targets were nuclear sites, but it also made targeted strikes on senior military personnel. The Islamic Republic of Iran
0:58.4	say this is a gross violation of sovereignty and tantamount to a declaration of war. They seem to
1:03.8	have launched a hundred or so drones today as a counter-strike and the Israeli defence forces
1:09.7	claim to have intercepted nearly all of these.
1:14.2	This follows months, well, years of tension and some open violence.
1:21.1	In April last year, an airstrike hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the capital of Syria. It killed around a dozen people,
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