You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

We are recording this at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 4th of October.

Iran's supreme leader tells a huge crowd in Tehran the missile attack on Israel

was the minimum punishment it deserved. Israel is weighing up its response

while continuing to attack Lebanon. The EU approves tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, so is a trade war looming,

and a potentially huge breakthrough in ovarian cancer treatment.

Also on the podcast, dot workers in the US agree to suspend strike action and...

I pointed it at a tree outside my window holding on to it and I asked what type of tree is this and they have

told me it is a money tree I've since looked at Google Images it does look like it

was correct how to search simply by taking a video. In recent months, Iran has suffered a serious blow to its credibility as a powerful counterweight to Israel.

In July, the Iranian security services were humiliated when the Hamas leader Ishmaelhenia

was assassinated in Tehran. Then Iran's most important ally in the region, Hezbollah,

lost much of its leadership in Lebanon through Israeli attacks via booby-trapped communication

devices and then airstrikes.

On Tuesday, Iran responded by launching a barrage of ballistic missiles towards Israel, but that did

relatively little damage.

Today the Iranian Supreme Leader appeared in public for the first time

since then, leading Friday prayers a very rare occurrence. During his sermon in front of

an enormous crowd, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defended Iran's attack on Israel.

The Islamic law and our constitution and the international law and let me say that this is really certain that every nation

has the right to defend its soil, its sovereignty, its territorial integrity

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