Israel Strikes Iran In Major Escalation

Newscast

BBC

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today, Israel has carried out strikes in Iran targeting nuclear sites and military commanders in a major escalation of tensions.

Israel say they targeted the “heart” of Iran’s nuclear programme, whilst also killing Hossein Salami, chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Civilians, including children, were also among those killed, state media reported.

In response the Israeli military said Iran launched about 100 drones towards Israel on Friday morning, with Israeli media reporting all the drones were intercepted.

Adam is joined by Americast host Justin Webb and the Economist's defence editor Shashank Joshi.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, on Friday morning, we woke up to the news that Israel had launched a massive attack on Iran,
0:10.4	which targeted their nuclear weapons sites and also killed several senior members of the Iranian military and Iranian nuclear scientists.
0:22.6	What's strange about this is that we sort of knew this was coming because there'd been lots of rumours about it for the last
0:27.4	week or so, but it was still quite a surprise that it did happen and that it happened on such a
0:32.5	big scale and also that Israel being very explicit that this is just the start, and there's more military action to come.
0:39.0	So we'll discuss all of that on this episode of Newscast, which we're recording on Friday lunchtime.
0:44.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:46.3	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
0:49.3	Did I say that? I can't believe I said that.
0:52.1	Next Wednesday?
0:52.9	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
0:55.5	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fam.
0:58.5	I don't think I'm being rude.
0:59.9	I like landscapes.
1:01.0	Take me down to Downey Street.
1:02.7	Let's go have a tour.
1:04.4	Blimey.
1:05.4	Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio, and I'm joined on the line by my podcasting cousin from Americast, Justin Webb.
1:10.9	Greetings.
1:11.6	And also we've got the defense editor of the economist Shashank Joshi joining us.
1:15.1	Hello, Shashank.
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