US: 'achievable objectives' in Iran in four to six weeks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
President Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, didn't give details of what these objectives were. But she said that when the goals of the war were realised, "Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender, whether they say it themselves or not". We hear from Iranians on life during wartime, Lebanese civilians living on the beach in Beirut as Hezbollah comes under attack from Israel and the latest on the economic impact of the conflict. Also, after US troops forcibly removed the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro, from power Mr Trump has suggested that Cuba might be next on his agenda. And thousands of people, including three former US presidents, have attended a memorial service for the American civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson.
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| 0:29.9 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Saturday the 7th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:36.8 | The White House says that its objectives in Iran |
| 0:39.4 | could be achieved in four to six weeks. Israel continues to bombard Lebanon, saying it's targeting |
| 0:45.8 | Iran's ally Hezbollah. It's ordered hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes |
| 0:50.6 | ahead of an anticipated ground incursion. And we take a look at the global economic impact of the war in the Middle East. |
| 0:59.9 | Also in this podcast, armed robots take to the battlefield in the Ukraine War and at a church in Chicago. |
| 1:08.5 | Praise the Lord, everybody. |
| 1:11.2 | Can we celebrate the life of Reverend Jesse Jackson? |
| 1:15.9 | Three former US presidents are among thousands at a memorial service for the late |
| 1:21.0 | civil rights leader. |
| 1:26.1 | We are now one week into the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, |
| 1:31.2 | and if President Trump is to be believed, |
| 1:33.3 | the military campaign has been an overwhelming achievement. |
| 1:36.9 | Somebody said, how would you score it from zero to ten? |
| 1:40.6 | I said, I'd give it a 12 to a 15. |
| 1:48.1 | Their army is gone. They're just about, look, their Navy is gone. |
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