US launches strikes on Iran, targeting missile sites and boats
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Iran has issued a new warning, after the US carried out air strikes on Iranian missile sites and mine-laying boats. Also on the programme, how countries around world are adapting to heatwaves and higher summer temperatures; and, on his 100th birthday we ask what made Miles Davis one of the jazz greats from a musician who played with him.
(Photo: An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a street in Tehran, Iran, May 26, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.1 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Regina Vaidyanathan. |
| 0:16.9 | A few days ago, the signs from the US were that a long-term ceasefire with Iran was imminent. |
| 0:23.5 | As the hours passed, that tone seemed to change. President Trump told negotiators to take their |
| 0:29.0 | time to get it right. But as that diplomacy continued, America announced it had launched |
| 0:35.1 | fresh strikes on southern Iran, targeting missile sites and boats attempting to place mines. |
| 0:41.5 | It said the strikes, which were overnight Monday into Tuesday, were an act of self-defense. |
| 0:47.1 | But Iran says it will retaliate and accuses the US of illegal and unjustified actions. |
| 0:53.2 | All of this, as we've had another statement from Iran's |
| 0:56.2 | supreme leader. Well, this was Iranian state television this morning, reading a warning from |
| 1:01.3 | the supreme leader, Mujthaba Khomei, that there would be no safe haven for U.S. forces in the |
| 1:07.2 | Middle East. With regards to the cooperation of Islamic countries, what is certain |
| 1:13.0 | is that the clock cannot be turned back and that the nations and lands of the region will no |
| 1:18.3 | longer be a shield for American bases. Moreover, America will no longer have a safe place in the |
| 1:24.9 | region for mischief and the establishment of military bases. |
| 1:28.8 | And day by day, it will drift further from its former position. |
| 1:32.5 | The shaky Zionist regime, too, will move closer to the end of its ominous existence. |
| 1:37.7 | Well, as we said just then, that was announced by a newsreader because it's worth pointing |
| 1:42.1 | out that Hamani has not been seen in public since |
| 1:45.3 | he became supreme leader after his father was killed in a US strike back in February. |
| 1:51.0 | Well, our correspondent, Amir Nader, has been monitoring the latest developments from Jerusalem. |
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