Mission Accomplished? What We Know About The State of Iran's Nuclear Program.
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, Congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and senior science editor and correspondent Geoff Brumfiel.
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| 1:20.5 | Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 1:25.4 | And I'm Claudia Rizales. I cover Congress. |
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| 1:32.7 | Hi there. President Trump took another victory lap this morning after this weekend strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. |
| 1:40.9 | Iran will never rebuild its nuclear. From there, absolutely not. That place is under |
| 1:46.0 | rock. That place is demolished. The B-2 pilots did their job. They did it better than anybody |
| 1:51.8 | could even imagine. But experts say when it comes to Iran's nuclear program, it's too early to declare |
| 1:57.7 | mission accomplished. Today, we're going to break down what we know about how |
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