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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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The US defence secretary insists their strikes undermined Iran's nuclear plans. Also: Journalist Anna Wintour is to step down as US Vogue editor, and a man whose crimes helped create the term Stockholm Syndrome has died.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.8 | I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Friday the 27th of June, these are our main stories. |
0:10.8 | Washington has doubled down on its assessment that its strikes on Iran have severely undermined Tehran's nuclear ambitions |
0:17.6 | after Iran's supreme leader dismissed the attacks as showmanship. |
0:21.9 | Gaza has received its first delivery in more than three months of medical aid from the World |
0:26.9 | Health Organization. The legendary fashion journalist Anna Winter has announced that she's |
0:32.2 | standing down as the editor of US Vogue magazine after 37 years in the role. |
0:39.8 | Also in this podcast, we hear from a woman who was held hostage in the siege that gave rise to the term Stockholm syndrome. |
0:47.4 | I think it was the feeling that someone cared about me. I don't feel a shame at all for this. |
0:56.2 | I did what I could to survive. |
1:02.9 | The ceasefire between Israel and Iran may be holding, |
1:07.8 | but the United States and the Islamic Republic are refusing to let the dust settle. |
1:12.2 | In our earlier podcast, we brought you some of the first televised address since the ceasefire by Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He declared victory over Israel |
1:18.0 | and said that President Trump was wrong to claim that US strikes had obliterated Iran's |
1:23.3 | underground nuclear site at Fordo. A short time later, the US Defence Secretary Pete Hexeth |
1:28.9 | gave a combative press conference in the Pentagon, castigating journalists for reporting a US |
1:34.4 | intelligence leak which said that Saturday's bombing raid failed to destroy that site. Rather, |
1:40.6 | he called it an historically successful attack. |
1:49.9 | There has been speculation that highly enriched uranium was moved from Fordo days before the attack, |
1:53.0 | but President Trump said that nothing had left the site. |
1:58.3 | Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only. |
2:01.0 | I asked our security correspondent Frank Gardner if the world will ever find out the full damage to Iran's nuclear capabilities. |
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