Israel targets Iran's nuclear sites - extra edition

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  This is an extra edition of the Global News Podcast on the Israeli strikes on Iran from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Jackie Leonard and at 9 o'clock GMT on Friday the 13th of June these are the headlines.

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  Israel has attacked Iran with waves of military strikes that it says are targeting Tehran's nuclear program.

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  Iranian state media say the head of the armed forces and the top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard have been killed.

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  And the Israeli military says it's intercepted all of more than 100 drones fired towards its territory by Iran.

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  Israel is calling it Operation Rising Lion,

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  a major attack involving dozens of airstrikes across Iran.

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  In a televised statement the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the target was Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

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  Last year Iran fired 300 ballistic missiles at Israel.

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  Each of these missiles carries a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds of people.

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  Soon those missiles could carry a nuclear payload.

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  threatening the lives not of hundreds but of millions.

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  Several people linked to Iran's nuclear program were among those killed.

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  Air traffic has been suspended throughout the region and Israel has declared a state of emergency

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  as it says it expects retaliation.

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  These people in Jerusalem this morning expressed support for the military action.

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  I woke very early and I heard that Israeli army attacked Iran,

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  and I am very happy for this.

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  We are waiting for this.

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  I bless Israeli army to succeed in this attack.

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