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Today in Focus

Why Trump bombed Iran

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The United States has joined Israel in its attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. Michael Safi hears from reporter Hugo Lowell and world affairs correspondent Andrew Roth on what happens now. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.2

Today, the US enters the war against Iran.

0:11.3

Now, can it get out of it?

0:14.9

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1:01.2

It's one of the biggest foreign policy decisions in decades.

1:07.6

And it first emerged, of course, in a post on truth social.

1:11.8

Late on Saturday evening, Donald Trump, flanked by three senior members of his government,

1:17.2

announced to the American people that U.S. bombers had dropped the largest non-nuclear weapons in America's arsenal

1:23.9

on three nuclear sites in Iran.

1:26.8

Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.

1:33.4

Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

1:38.5

Setting any possible weapons program back, the administration claims by years at least.

1:45.0

What we did is we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program. I think we set that program

1:50.0

back substantially and we did it without endangering the lives of the American pilots.

1:54.0

The Trump administration is already taking its victory lap and signaling to Iran.

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