President Trump: "We're going to meet with Iran"
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says the United States and Iran will hold a meeting next week, but that they do not need to sign an agreement. He also denied reports that the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities failed to finish the job. We hear from the BBC's Lyse Doucet, who's in Iran, and ask what chance there is that new negotiations could work.
Also in the programme: in Kenya, there are reports of several people having been killed and more than 400 injured at events marking the first anniversary of protests against attempts to raise taxes; and where old rockers go to roll - Rod Stewart on taking the tea-time slot at the Glastonbury Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming to live from London with me, Sean Lay. |
| 0:10.1 | What has Saturday's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities achieved and what comes next? In the immediate |
| 0:16.4 | aftermath, we've seen a dispute about how much the nuclear enrichment program was disrupted |
| 0:21.5 | and whether or not it has been destroyed. But today there came an announcement by President Trump |
| 0:26.6 | that the US and Iran will be holding talks next week. Mr Trump was speaking at the NATO summit in |
| 0:32.4 | The Hague, where he also reacted angrily to media coverage of a leaked assessment of the American bombing raids, |
| 0:38.4 | apparently by the Defence Intelligence Agency, part of the US Pentagon. |
| 0:42.9 | According to those reports, the US bunker busters, as the bombs are known, |
| 0:46.5 | did not fully eliminate either Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium |
| 0:50.1 | or the centrifuges used to produce it. |
| 0:53.1 | Speaking beside the NATO Secretary General Mark Lutter, |
| 0:56.4 | Mr. Trump said the intelligence could be interpreted in different ways. |
| 1:00.3 | Well, the intelligence was very inconclusive. |
| 1:03.5 | The intelligence says we don't know. |
| 1:05.1 | It could have been very severe. |
| 1:07.8 | That's what the intelligence says. |
| 1:10.0 | So I guess that's correct. |
| 1:12.6 | But I think we can take that we don't know. |
| 1:14.6 | It was very severe. |
| 1:15.8 | It was obliteration. |
| 1:17.8 | And a few hours later, at the news conference at the end of the summit, he seemed more certain. |
| 1:23.3 | We're going to talk to them next week with Iran. |
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