Strike On Iran: The Nuclear Question
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries. |
| 0:06.2 | We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:12.6 | Right now, here is the audio cast of the updated version of Strike on Iran, the nuclear question. |
| 0:32.6 | Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. |
| 0:39.5 | In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, President Trump has repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran was an imminent nuclear threat. |
| 0:42.6 | If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war, and |
| 0:48.2 | they would have taken out in many countries, because you know what, they're sick people. |
| 0:51.4 | If we didn't knock the hell out of them, they would have had a nuclear weapon within two to four weeks. |
| 0:56.0 | They would use it within... |
| 0:58.0 | The only question is within one hour if they get it or one day. |
| 1:02.0 | In the name of tackling that threat, |
| 1:05.0 | the US and Israel have launched thousands of strikes |
| 1:08.0 | on Iran's nuclear sites, military and civilian infrastructure |
| 1:11.6 | and leadership for the second time in less than a year. |
| 1:15.6 | Israel has confirmed that the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, has been killed. |
| 1:21.6 | Iran has responded by launching attacks on Israel and U.S US allied states in the goal. |
| 1:34.3 | Is it possible we can go to courage? It's where they say they were manufacturing the centrifuges. |
| 1:37.3 | For months before the war, we'd been investigating the status of Iran's nuclear program. |
| 1:43.3 | Revisited sites hit in the first round of the U.S. and Israeli strikes last year, which President |
| 1:49.3 | Trump said obliterated the regime's nuclear facilities, and sat down with one of Iran's most |
| 1:55.2 | powerful officials, Ali Larajani, in what would be one of his last interviews before |
| 2:00.1 | he was killed in an Israeli airstrike. |
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