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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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Monday, June 23. The seven stories you need to know today.
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0:00.0 | Iran is vowing to retaliate after U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities. |
0:07.0 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
0:11.0 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, June 23rd. |
0:15.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
0:27.3 | Early yesterday morning, American B-2 stealth bombers and a submarine struck three nuclear facilities in Iran. |
0:29.6 | President Donald Trump addressed the nation following the attack. |
0:33.4 | Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. |
0:41.9 | Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. |
0:47.5 | Satellite imagery of the strikes on sites at Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan does show severe damage at above-ground facilities. |
0:56.4 | It also shows the entry points of bunker-busting bombs at underground sites. |
1:01.6 | But these images shed little light on the status of equipment that's kept hundreds of feet below |
1:07.0 | ground, so the true extent of the damage to Iran's nuclear program isn't clear. |
1:13.4 | Iran called the attack a violation of international law and said that any retaliation would be, |
1:19.7 | quote, legitimate self-defense. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Aragshi spoke in Istanbul |
1:26.0 | yesterday. |
1:27.4 | The war-mongering and lawless administration in Washington |
1:31.2 | is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences |
1:37.3 | and far-reaching implications of its act of aggression. |
1:44.8 | On social media yesterday, Trump also raised the prospect of regime change in Tehran. |
1:51.2 | But the risk of even deeper U.S. involvement in a spiraling Middle East conflict |
1:56.2 | is an extraordinary departure from Trump's previous rhetoric about avoiding foreign wars. |
2:06.1 | Democrats and some Republicans question Trump's decision to attack Iran. That's number two. |
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