US and Iran trade strikes in Gulf
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The US has carried out a second wave of airstrikes on Iran after Tehran attacked tankers in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the week. The perimeter of Iran's main nuclear plant, at Bushehr, was reported to have been hit. Iran said attacks on its civilian infrastructure could be war crimes. Tehran ordered retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Bahrain and Kuwait. Also: the toll of the war on tanker sailors in the Gulf; scandal forces a leading US Democratic Senate candidate to suspend his campaign; Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler dies at 75; rising false claims about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC; why young people may be best placed to take advantage of AI; the danger facing a little-known desert rain frog; and scores to settle: Morocco take on France again in the World Cup.
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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. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, I'm Ankara Desai and at 16 GMT on Thursday the 9th of July. |
| 0:14.5 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:16.2 | The latest from the Middle East, as the US and Iran trade strikes for a second night. |
| 0:20.8 | It comes as large crowds aligning the streets in the city of Mashad, where Iran's late |
| 0:25.5 | supreme leader is due to be buried later. |
| 0:28.2 | The BBC finds false claims about Ebola are fueling violence against health workers in the |
| 0:33.0 | Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| 0:35.2 | And the president of Microsoft says young people are best |
| 0:37.8 | place to take advantage of an AI revolution, reshaping jobs and the workplace. |
| 0:45.1 | Also in this podcast. People often ask me, you know, don't I get fed up with singing |
| 0:50.0 | Toll Cliff. Of course I don't. I love it, you know. We mark the life of singer Bonnie Tyler, who has died at the age of 75. |
| 0:57.8 | And the quarterfinals of the World Cup begin today. |
| 1:04.7 | France and Morocco kick it all off in Boston. |
| 1:10.7 | The prospect of a proper peace between the US and Iran is looking even dimmer |
| 1:15.8 | after a second series of American strikes on Iranian targets and defiance from Tehran. |
| 1:22.8 | The US military says it struck 90 sites, some near the very straight of Hormuz, which is now at the center |
| 1:28.8 | of the conflict. There are also reports of explosions in Boucher, where Iran's main nuclear plant |
| 1:35.1 | is located. Iran suggested some attacks had hit civilian infrastructure and accused America |
| 1:40.8 | of a war crime. President Trump spoke about the latest strikes on Air Force One |
| 1:45.0 | as he returned from a NATO summit in Turkey. |
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