2025-06-13
27 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
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We begin with the situation in Iran after Israel launched waves of air strikes.
The military operation, which Israel has dubbed Operation Rising Lion, began overnight.
It involved some 200 Israeli fighter jets and targeted nuclear and military sites.
Several nuclear scientists and senior military figures have been killed.
As we record this podcast, Israel has been continuing its attacks,
striking the main uranium enrichment site at Natanz.
World leaders have urged restraint.
In a recorded video message the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was at a decisive moment in its history.
Air traffic has been suspended throughout the region and Israel has declared a state of emergency.
Our Middle East regional editor Sebastian Asher is following events from Jerusalem.
One of the things that the IDF spokesperson was showing was an aerial view of the Natanz nuclear facility,
which has, I think,
been an absolutely key target in showing the damage that has been done there.
But I mean, from an aerial perspective, you can't really tell how much.
And as far as the Iranians are concerned, what we've heard,