Trump warns of more US deaths in Iran war

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has warned that more American military personnel are likely to be killed as the US and Israel continue their attacks on Iran. Three US service members have already died after Iranian retaliatory strikes on military sites. Trump says Operation Epic Fury could last weeks. Also: the conflict widens as Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire, with the IDF hitting targets in Beirut's southern suburbs. Oil prices surge after Iran warns tankers to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. The UK says it will allow the US to use British bases. And we look at Mossad and the CIA's intelligence efforts to carry out the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.8	I'm Janet Joliel, and this edition is published in the early hours of Monday the 2nd of March.
0:16.8	The US announces its first military casualties since it began attacking Iran on Saturday.
0:22.5	President Trump warns there could be others.
0:25.9	Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones in response,
0:30.1	targeting countries across the Middle East and a key oil route.
0:34.5	The price of crude is surging as a result.
0:40.4	The conflict has widened as the Israeli military strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Also in this podcast, the UK agrees the US
0:48.4	can use British bases to attack Iranian missile sites. The only way to stop the threat is to destroy the missiles at source in their storage
1:00.4	depots or the launchers which are used to fire the missiles.
1:08.0	President Trump has warned that there will likely be more American military deaths as the US and Israel continued their attacks on Iran.
1:17.7	Three US military service members were killed as Iran carried out retaliatory strikes on American military sites in neighboring Arab states.
1:27.2	Deaths were reported across the region as airports, luxury hotels and shopping malls were also hit by Iran.
1:34.5	Mr. Trump said the U.S. Israeli military operation would continue until all objectives had been achieved and that it could take up to four weeks.
1:43.9	His political opponents have labeled the actions against Iran as illegal.
1:48.9	But on Sunday evening, the president released this video to justify them.
1:54.1	These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime
2:04.2	armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats. For almost 50 years, these wicked extremists
2:11.9	have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan, death to America or death to Israel or both.
2:21.0	They are the world's number one state sponsor of terror. We are the world's greatest and most
2:26.9	powerful nation so we can do something about what they do. These intolerable threats will not
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