Israel strikes Iran – how will Iran retaliate?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Israel struck military and nuclear targets in Iran overnight in a major escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has begun further strikes on Friday. Iran has vowed retaliation though President Trump has warned Iran and encouraged the Iranians to continue negotiations over their nuclear programme. Further talks had been due to take place this weekend. What’s Israel’s objective? And does this underline the unpredictability of geopolitics, at a time when the UK has pledged significantly more money for defence?
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| 0:45.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by James Hill and Michael Stevens from the Security and Defence |
| 0:48.8 | think tank, Roussey. Michael, overnight we saw strikes by Israel on military nuclear targets |
| 0:53.8 | across Iran. |
| 0:54.8 | What do we know about the strikes? |
| 0:56.0 | Well, we know a lot, partly because they were very, very visible. |
| 1:00.4 | The Israelis very quickly announced that that's what they had done. |
| 1:04.1 | The Iranians were in no position to deny that these had taken place, |
| 1:08.1 | and they caused maximum damage to specific military and nuclear enrichment site, |
| 1:14.1 | the Natanz reactor. And perhaps even more importantly, was the targeted assassination of several |
| 1:21.9 | very important regime members, one of whom was a personal advisor to the Ayatollah, Ali Shamq, and the head of the IRGC, |
| 1:31.0 | which is their sort of military wing or their fourth force, and the chief of general staff. |
| 1:35.7 | So this is a really big decapitation operation. |
| 1:39.0 | It came not out of the blue, of course. |
| 1:41.2 | We saw in the preceding 48 hours that the Americans had begun to |
| 1:46.0 | withdraw embassy personnel from the region in advance of something happening. No one quite knew what, |
| 1:51.9 | but there was a suspicion that if there was going to be a military strike, it would probably |
| 1:56.2 | be on Sunday after another round of negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians, but that was not |
| 2:02.5 | the case. And the strike came in, unexpected, ahead of the sixth round of negotiations and has really |
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