What will Iran do next?
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
After the US's unprecedented strikes over the weekend, the future of Iran's nuclear programme remains uncertain. Israel has sent a new wave of strikes hitting, among other targets, Evin prison which is home to many political prisoners. The US President Donald Trump has indicated he would not rule out regime change in the country.
Also on the programme, our first glimpse through a powerful new telescope, set atop a mountain in Chile; and, how online conspiracy theories are poising a danger to cancer treatments.
(Photo: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in southern Tehran, Iran, 4 June, 2025. Credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Newsar. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. |
| 0:10.7 | And we're spending much of the programme trying to work out what comes next after the US's unprecedented strikes over the weekend on Iran. |
| 0:19.0 | What will Iran do? What will Israel do? And what might the |
| 0:23.2 | US be prepared to do next? How much is any one side in control of events and what's happened |
| 0:29.1 | to Iran's nuclear program? And also, a little bit later, we'll be trying to explore what |
| 0:35.0 | Donald Trump was up to when he mused on social media about the possibility of regime change inside Iran. |
| 0:42.3 | There's also, of course, what's happening right now, |
| 0:45.5 | including the continued exchange of fire between Israel and Iran, |
| 0:48.5 | which today has seen the Israeli military targeting Iran's most notorious prison, |
| 0:53.3 | Evin, in Tehran. |
| 1:01.4 | The sound of sirens, and you can also hear people shouting outside Evan prison after |
| 1:07.6 | Israeli airstrikes earlier today. |
| 1:09.7 | Joining me in the studio is one of our correspondence with BBC Persian TV, Berang Taj |
| 1:15.7 | Din. |
| 1:16.6 | Berang, what do we know of what happened at Evan? |
| 1:19.1 | So first of all, let me remind you that Evan Prison is located in the middle of a residential |
| 1:27.3 | area and it's next to a prestigious university, Shaid Bish. is located in the middle of a residential area |
| 1:27.8 | and it's next to a prestigious university, Shadebushri University. |
| 1:33.5 | The footage released by Iran's state broadcaster shows rescue workers |
| 1:39.1 | trying to, apparently trying to find someone and rescue someone from under the rubble. |
| 1:47.4 | We also see one person being taken away on a stretcher. |
| 1:53.0 | But what we have heard from prisoners, the political prisoners in the wing number four of the having prison is that |
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