US continues 'large-scale operations' in Iran
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump says the US continues to carry out "large-scale combat operations" in Iran to eliminate threats posed by the Iranian regime. As explosions thunder across the Iranian capital, we hear from a journalist in Tehran. Also on the programme: the conflict spreading into Lebanon and across the Gulf, and why one Trump-supporting American commentator believes this war of choice was a mistake. (Photo: President Donald Trump attends a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Tim Franks. It is day three of the US and Israel's war against Iran, and this is a conflict which is intensifying and spreading. |
| 0:26.9 | Tehran and locations around the country have again been rocked by explosions. |
| 0:35.9 | These pictures came in of rubble-strewn streets in the Iranian capital, of civilians running and smoke choking the air, |
| 0:42.7 | the Iranian military was also launching pressure attacks on Israel and targets across the Gulf. |
| 0:49.2 | Indeed, just within the last four minutes, US Central Command have put out an update saying that six US service members have now been killed in action. |
| 1:01.4 | Global oil and gas prices have risen sharply. Across this program, we're going to bring you some of the key voices and fascinating insights from across the region from Tehran, from Jerusalem, from Cairo, from Lebanon, and also out of the key voices and fascinating insights from across the region from Tehran, from Jerusalem, |
| 1:11.8 | from Cairo, from Lebanon, and also out of the U.S. |
| 1:16.1 | Let's start indeed in Washington with what President Trump has had to say today his first comments |
| 1:21.2 | on the war from the White House. |
| 1:23.1 | Our objectives are clear first. |
| 1:24.8 | We're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their Navy. We've knocked out already 10 ships there at the bottom of the sea. |
| 1:45.0 | Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. |
| 1:52.0 | Never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning. They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. |
| 1:58.0 | They were on the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed |
| 2:03.3 | foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue |
| 2:11.0 | to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders. |
| 2:18.1 | Donald Trump, speaking for the White House, elsewhere in interviews with U.S. news outlets, |
| 2:23.3 | the president said that the biggest wave of his offensive was yet to come and that he |
| 2:28.8 | wouldn't rule out the possibility of putting boots on the ground. |
| 2:32.9 | He also said, though, that he was willing to take |
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