The U.S. Strikes Nuclear Sites In Iran. Now What?
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🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:27.9 | Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. It is 1046 a.m. on Sunday, June 22, 2025. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Greg Myrie. I cover |
| 0:40.8 | National Security. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And we're in |
| 0:45.5 | your feeds today because last night, the U.S. struck three nuclear sites in Iran. President |
| 0:51.0 | Trump made the announcement on social media and then addressed the nation from the |
| 0:55.2 | White House. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. |
| 1:02.0 | Iran, the bully of the Middle East must now make peace. Greg, let's start with the details on the |
| 1:08.4 | attack itself. What do you know about what happened and how it happened? |
| 1:13.1 | So the U.S. unleashed B-tooth stealth bombers and also used submarines to carry out this powerful |
| 1:21.8 | attack on three Iranian nuclear sites, Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan. These are all south of the capital, Tehran, |
| 1:30.2 | about 100 to 300 miles south of the capital. The attacks took place early Sunday morning before |
| 1:36.5 | dawn, local time, Saturday night in the U.S. Now, pretty remarkable about these B-2 stealth |
| 1:43.3 | bombers. They flew more than 30 hours round trip from Whiteman Air Force Base, which is outside Kansas City. |
| 1:51.1 | And these planes dropped these massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs. |
| 1:56.6 | First time these bombs have ever been used in combat. |
| 2:00.7 | Now, we know at least one sub, possibly more, |
| 2:03.1 | were used to fire Tomahawk missiles as well. Trump, as we've heard, is calling it a complete success, |
| 2:10.5 | but it is going to take some time to get a full assessment on the extent of damage. We heard this |
| 2:15.7 | in the Pentagon briefing this morning. You know, |
| 2:19.2 | were these facilities completely destroyed or only partially destroyed? Where is this highly enriched |
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