US and Iran trade blows as Khamenei is buried
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Ayatollah Khamenei - Iran's former supreme leader who was killed by US-Israeli strikes - has been laid to rest as fighting continues over control of the Strait of Hormuz. We speak to the BBC's Lyse Doucet, who's just returned from Tehran. Also: thousands of Venezuelans displaced by earthquakes are at risk of disease; Ukrainians attack a military conscription team hunting draft dodgers; Gazans turn to farming amid food insecurity; an alleged Ghanaian romance scammer is extradited; Donald Trump puts his name on a Florida airport; and the latest from the World Cup - as France knocks out Morocco and Norwegian football fans channel their inner Viking.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Friday the 10th of July, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.3 | Iran's late Supreme Leader is buried as both Tehran and the US continue to breach their ceasefire agreement. |
| 0:22.9 | We hear from people in Iran about concerns of a return to all-out war. |
| 0:27.2 | Also, the soil that is available has been reused again and again. |
| 0:32.5 | The soil itself is exhausted, as are the farmers. |
| 0:35.9 | No seeds, no fertiliser. We have a special report on the huge |
| 0:39.8 | challenges Garzan's face to farm their way out of chronic food insecurity. And after the deadly |
| 0:45.7 | quakes in Venezuela, the silent killer fears of disease spreading in the camps for the displaced. |
| 0:54.1 | Also in this podcast, the Ghanaian man extradited to the US for allegedly running a romance scam |
| 1:00.0 | and France becomes the first nation through to the semi-finals of the Football World Cup. |
| 1:19.1 | We begin in the Iranian city of Mashad, where the former supreme leader has been laid to rest after a six-day funeral procession. |
| 1:30.4 | Salam al-Ajad. Rizajan, Rizajan, Salam al-Jan, Rezajan, Salaman. |
| 1:36.9 | Ayatollah Ali Hamenei was killed in U.S. Israeli strikes at the start of the war. |
| 1:43.9 | His funeral was marked by open shows of defiance towards Washington by some mourners and many officials. As it was laid to rest, |
| 1:45.5 | Iranian state media reported that the US had targeted naval facilities in Khoranak and a military |
| 1:51.8 | headquarters in Boucher, where one of the country's nuclear plants is located. For its part, Tehran |
| 1:58.4 | has attacked what it said were U.S. military facilities in neighboring Gulf countries. |
| 2:04.2 | This Iranian man sent the BBC a voice note. |
| 2:09.2 | If war breaks out again, God forbid, what will be targeted this time? |
| 2:13.6 | People are exhausted by this situation. |
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