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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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Israel says it has hit access routes to Iran's main nuclear enrichment site a day after US attacks. The UN's nuclear watchdog says it must be allowed to assess the damage to Iran's nuclear programme.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 23rd of June. |
0:11.0 | Israel hits Iran with another wave of attacks striking Yvine prison and the Fordo nuclear site. |
0:17.2 | The Iranians have warned of a decisive response to the U.S. bombing at the weekend. |
0:22.1 | We'll hear what Russia, China and American voters make of it, and get the assessment of the UN nuclear watchdog. |
0:31.3 | Also in this podcast, potentially depending on where you're looking at, tens of thousands of galaxies will fit into that one little portion of the sky that is covered by your finger. |
0:40.3 | The first images are released from the world's most powerful telescope. |
0:49.3 | Less than 36 hours after the U.S. bombed Iran, Israel has launched a new attack on Fordo, the deepest of the |
0:57.0 | Iranian nuclear sites. President Trump insisted the American strikes had wiped out the Iranian nuclear |
1:02.8 | program, but no one knows for sure how much damage has been done and what has happened to the |
1:08.1 | 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium stored in Fordo. |
1:12.5 | The BBC isn't allowed to report from inside Iran, |
1:15.9 | but our world affairs correspondent, Joe Inwood, has compiled this report. |
1:24.1 | It is a shaky video, filmed on a phone in Isfahan in central Iran. |
1:33.4 | In the far distance, huge explosions can be seen, points of light in an otherwise black sky. |
1:40.9 | It is one of the very few records of an event that has shaken the Middle East and may yet transform it. |
1:51.0 | By the afternoon, the US attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities had brought crowds onto the streets of Tehran. |
1:59.0 | They cheered the president, Masoud Peshtlian, and chanted, death to Israel, death to America. |
2:08.5 | At this pro-government rally, the mood was one of defiance. |
2:15.2 | Fazzana is young, maybe in her early 30s, and wears a loosely fitting headscarf over a green dress. |
2:23.8 | What America did is truly unforgivable, she says, and they should not think they can harm our country by doing this. |
2:30.9 | Iran is stronger than they perceive. |
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