Truce and consequences: a fragile ceasefire in Iran
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Iran’s strikes both before and apparently after a ceasefire began seem to threaten peace. If it holds, what will that mean for Iran’s ambitions, and for the wider region? A meeting of NATO-country leaders seems precision-engineered to appease the alliance’s most fickle member. And why Germany is considering cancelling one of its many public holidays.
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:15.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:24.6 | Thank you. we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. Leaders of the NATO countries are gathering today to finish off a plan to massively increase their defense spending. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, most of them. |
| 0:33.6 | We take a deeper look at the commitments and ask whether they will appease the alliance's most fickle member. |
| 0:41.1 | And public holidays are a blissful invention. |
| 0:44.9 | Only problem is there are drag on productivity and the economy. |
| 0:48.9 | So Germany's government is considering removing one of those precious days from the national calendar. |
| 0:58.5 | But first... |
| 1:07.0 | On the show yesterday morning, the big question in the aftermath of America's strikes on Iran |
| 1:17.3 | was what response it would provoke. |
| 1:19.9 | By yesterday evening, we had an answer. |
| 1:23.1 | Iran fired 14 missiles at an American air base in Qatar, one for each of the American bombs that fell on its nuclear facilities. |
| 1:31.5 | But it gave both the Qataris and the Americans advance notice, and it seems no one was injured. |
| 1:38.0 | A couple of hours later, Donald Trump declared a ceasefire had been negotiated. |
| 1:42.8 | This morning, Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, |
| 1:46.0 | said that Iran had violated the deal in its opening hours |
| 1:49.0 | by firing missiles into northern Israel. |
| 1:54.0 | He, in turn, ordered strikes on Tehran. |
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