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WSJ What’s News

Israel Hits Back at Iran With Overnight Strikes

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for April 19. WSJ correspondent Dov Lieber explains what’s known about Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iran, which appear to have been narrow in scope to avoid further escalation. Plus, Apple yanks popular messaging applications like WhatsApp and Threads from its Chinese App Store after a fresh censorship order from Beijing. And voters in India begin casting ballots in the largest democratic exercise in the world. Luke Vargas hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.3

Israel launches a retaliatory strike on Iran. We'll get the very latest.

0:27.0

Plus Apple, Yanks' popular messaging apps from its China App Store after Beijing's latest censorship order.

0:34.7

When you have a huge chat messaging app, that means that you can form these big groups.

0:39.3

And that's a big fear of the Chinese government.

0:42.2

And voters in India begin casting ballots in the largest democratic exercise in the world.

0:48.0

It's Friday, April 19th.

0:50.0

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News?

0:55.4

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. Israel has struck back at Iran, with Iranian media and social media reporting explosions

1:12.4

overnight near the city of Isfahan, the home of key nuclear

1:16.4

and drone facilities.

1:19.0

Much still remains unclear about the Israeli action, though the strike seems to have had a limited impact.

1:25.9

And here to fill in some of the details, I'm joined by General Correspondent Dove Leiber.

1:31.6

What more can we say about what took place overnight?

1:34.6

So Iranian officials are saying, you know, this is something very small, three small

1:39.2

quadcopters were involved.

1:41.4

We don't know if that's true or not on the other side. The security

1:44.8

analysts that we've spoken to in Israel describe an attack on an Iranian air

1:49.8

base and how much damage that attack has done we don't know what they say is that one of the

1:56.6

let's say the success for Israel here is that they've managed to invade Iranian air

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