Israeli strikes kill an Iran intelligence chief as conflict intensifies
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel are "over the skies of Tehran" and have killed an Iran intelligence chief. In response, Iran carries out its first daytime strikes into Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Monday the 16th of June. |
| 0:10.4 | Israel has assassinated another military leader in Iran. The Iranians say the attacks have left more than 220 people dead. |
| 0:19.1 | 13 have been killed in retaliatory strikes by Iran. |
| 0:23.0 | President Trump says there's still a chance for peace. |
| 0:26.3 | A gunman who killed a Democratic Party politician in Minnesota on Saturday is still on the run. |
| 0:31.6 | We hear from the state senator. |
| 0:33.6 | And people have been swept away after a bridge collapsed in the Indian city of Pune. |
| 0:39.9 | Also in the podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | First, you're 35 or above. |
| 0:44.4 | Second, you're healthy. |
| 0:46.0 | Third, you have fathered at least two children. |
| 0:48.9 | And lastly, you have consent from your partners. |
| 0:51.8 | Why, some men in Indonesia are being offered cash by the government to get a vasectomy. |
| 1:02.1 | Iranian and American officials were supposed to be holding nuclear negotiations on Sunday, |
| 1:08.7 | but they were cancelled after Israel launched a devastating series of strikes on Iran, |
| 1:13.7 | killing 224 people, according to the Iranians. |
| 1:18.0 | The attacks are continuing, but the US President Donald Trump says a deal is still possible, |
| 1:23.9 | and Vladimir Putin could mediate. |
| 1:26.3 | However, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:29.4 | appears in no mood to compromise. Here he is on the Fox News Channel's special report with Brett Baer. |
| 1:36.0 | We attacked their chief nuclear scientists working. It's like Hitler's nuclear scientists. Would |
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