What is Iran's endgame?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday night, Israel warned its citizens to go to a safe room and prepare to spend the night there.
Two hours later, Iran began sending drones into Israeli territory - revenge for the killings of 7 men in the Iranian consulate two weeks ago in Damascus, Syria.
Of the 350 drones, 99 percent were intercepted. Tragically -and miraculously - there was only one reported injury - a 7 year old Israeli bedouin child.
So what happens next? Does Israel retaliate? Or heed it's allies and 'walk away with a win'. We talk to Tim Marshall and Yaakov Katz who know this war well.
Later, Liz Truss tells our colleague Iain Dale she has 'unfinished business'. Is that a sign she's coming back? Her new book is out tomorrow. His interview with her is out tonight. We give you the sneak peak.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | I definitely have unfinished business, definitely. |
| 0:16.4 | That was Liz Truss, with her double definitely, that she has unfinished business. We're going to |
| 0:23.9 | bring you all that. Let's think of it as dessert. Yeah, but of course we've got to have as our kind |
| 0:29.3 | of principal fare today what's unfolded in the Middle East over the weekend with Iran launching |
| 0:35.7 | that attack on Israel, 300 cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, |
| 0:40.2 | drones, all fired at Israel. But what happens now? What is next? What are the diplomatic |
| 0:45.8 | next move? We're going to try and unpick the pitfalls, the dangers and the risks that lie ahead. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:57.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:00.5 | It's John. It's Emily. And we're going to start with that extraordinary night, Saturday night, |
| 1:05.9 | where Israelis were given hours, essentially, to prepare for what they knew was coming at them, literally coming at them. |
| 1:15.3 | They were told at around 10pm that Iran had started sending drones. |
| 1:22.0 | And there is this extraordinary moment of kind of delay because the news anchors were talking about the news that |
| 1:30.5 | was going to be and people were told about the attacks that were coming and in the middle of |
| 1:36.4 | this all they actually had time to go out to go to the shops to restock on things that they needed |
| 1:43.4 | to make sure that they had their |
| 1:44.9 | kids home, to get their grandchildren in if they were living in places that didn't have, |
| 1:49.8 | as most Israeli homes now do, as sort of a safe room. And so they were in this sort of suspended |
| 1:56.3 | reality, knowing that all this was coming at them and having to think, in a way, I just think we can't imagine, |
| 2:05.4 | what will you now do with these couple of hours, two or three hours, that you've got to prepare? |
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