Trump Threatens Iran's Leader
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, President Trump says he knows where Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is but "we" won't kill him - "at least not for now".
In a series of posts on social media, he went on to demand an 'unconditional surrender', as Iran and Israel fire missiles for a fifth day. Is regime change likely, or a goal of the US and Israel? Caitriona Perry -chief presenter for BBC News and Lyse Doucet chief international correspondent are both in the studio with Adam.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, so I've just finished recording this episode of Newscast, which we did late afternoon on Tuesday. |
| 0:09.9 | We had Leastouc here in the studio, and we were joined by our friend from Washington, D.C., Katrina Perry, who's visiting the UK for a couple of days. |
| 0:17.3 | And we thought we would do a sort of sit-wrap about what is happening between Israel |
| 0:21.8 | and Iran, which is kind of dramatic enough. But then halfway through the recording, as you will |
| 0:26.8 | hear, there were some quite dramatic posts from Donald Trump on truth social. And so you will be |
| 0:33.5 | able to hear us just analysing what they mean in real time, |
| 0:37.8 | and you'll probably be able to hear this sort of incredulity in my voice as I'm reading some of them out. |
| 0:42.5 | So that is what you'll now hear on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:46.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:48.4 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 0:51.4 | Did I say that? |
| 0:52.8 | I can't believe I said that. |
| 0:54.9 | Next question? This is R for the benefit of Earth Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question. |
| 1:01.2 | This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fam. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. |
| 1:07.5 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and here with me is BBC Chief International |
| 1:11.6 | Correspondent. Leis Doucest. Hi, Lease. Good to be with you again, Adam. Something must be |
| 1:15.5 | happening if we're together again. Yes, although it's always nice to see you. Thank you. And making |
| 1:20.5 | her debut in the actual newscast studio, rather than the pretend one in Washington, it's Katrina Perry. Hello. Hi, Adam. It is so exciting to be here in real |
| 1:28.6 | life. IRL has been saying. Yeah. And what brings you over the pond? Oh, that's a terrible |
| 1:33.2 | cliche. I can't really have said that. But it's okay. You're allowed. Yeah. Just visiting |
| 1:38.2 | HQ. I'm visiting the mothership here. Yeah. I've got some shows to present from here and meeting all my |
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