US strikes Iran after accusing Tehran of targeting shipping
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The US carries out strikes in Iran, in retaliation for what it says is renewed Iranian targeting of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has condemned the attacks. Also: the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen confirms she will contest next year's presidential election. China is dealing with severe rain and flooding that's left more than 20 people dead. Super-strength cannabis is flooding Britain. The line-up for the quarter-finals of the World Cup is now complete, and a Manhattan skyscraper has been evacuated after fears that it could collapse.
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Photo: Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer
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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. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Celia Hatton, and in the early hours of the 8th of July, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.2 | The U.S. has carried out a series of strikes against Iran in response to what it calls renewed Iranian targeting of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:26.7 | The French hard right leader, Marie Lepin, says she's still running for president next year, despite losing her appeal against a conviction for misuse of European Parliament funds. |
| 0:39.5 | Also in this podcast, we look ahead to the quarterfinals of the men's world cop and some mouth-watering |
| 0:45.7 | clashes. And, I mean, I saw the state of that building. It was a lot of construction going on. The building was pretty old. |
| 0:57.6 | I mean, I hope they get it fixed. |
| 1:01.7 | The New York City skyscraper that shut down a large part of Manhattan. |
| 1:10.2 | The United States and Iran are supposed to be working out a peace deal, |
| 1:14.3 | but the conflicts between them is heating up around the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:25.8 | U.S. Central Command says the powerful American strikes hitting targets in Iran came after reported Iranian attacks on commercial ships transiting through the strait. |
| 1:31.0 | It says it struck over 80 targets, including Iranian air defense systems. |
| 1:35.8 | Iranian media is reporting hits in multiple locations in the south of the country. |
| 1:39.3 | Our North America correspondent Peter Bose told me the latest. |
| 1:48.8 | Iranian media has reported several explosions in the southern port city of Syric, as well as Keshem Island and Bandar Abbas. And these do, in fact, appear to be the heaviest US strikes since the ceasefire came into effect. |
| 1:55.5 | The statement from US Central Command is strongly worded. |
| 1:58.9 | It says American forces have launched a series of powerful |
| 2:01.8 | strikes to impose what it describes as heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial |
| 2:07.8 | shipping crude, it says, by innocent civilians in an international waterway. Now, those attacks |
| 2:14.6 | described earlier by a US official as wholly unacceptable. |
| 2:19.8 | It was earlier also that the British military said that three tankers had been hit in the Strait of Hormuz |
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