Strikes by Israel and Iran continue

以色列与伊朗的冲突持续不断

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2025-06-16

48 分钟
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Strikes by Israel and Iran continue as the conflict between the two countries intensifies and stretches into a third day. We’ll hear from the Israeli army, a former senior US envoy and a resident of Tehran. Also on the programme: we speak to a senior US senator who was friends with the lawmakers killed in the Minnesota shootings; and the writer on writing about being unable, physically, to write. The podcast version of this programme was edited on 15th June. (Photo: Israelis take shelter at the side of a highway as siren sounds following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in central Israel June 15, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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  • Hello and welcome to News Hour.

  • It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service in London with me Tim Franks.

  • It's just gone 11 in the evening in Jerusalem.

  • It's just gone 11.30 in the evening in Tehran.

  • And that means in wide locations across Israel and Iran,

  • air raid sirens have been sounding.

  • and we've been getting reports of missiles striking.

  • We'll join our correspondent live in Jerusalem in a moment.

  • It's been the third day of this round of conflict between Israel and Iran,

  • begun early on Friday morning when the Israeli military launched extensive strikes inside Iran in an attempt,

  • according to the Israelis,

  • to stop Iran racing towards the development of a nuclear weapon.

  • Both sides are accusing the other of killing civilians with their salvos.

  • The Israeli Prime Minister has said that the targets have been military intelligence and particularly nuclear capabilities,

  • and that's meant people as well as infrastructure.

  • Speaking on Fox News Channel's special report with Brett Beyer,

  • Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israelis had just killed two more senior Iranian security officials.

  • We attacked their chief nuclear scientists.

  • We attacked their top command.

  • I can inform you, Brett, that moments ago,