European ministers hold talks with Iran as conflict continues

欧洲部长与伊朗举行会谈,冲突持续不断

Global News Podcast

2025-06-20

27 分钟
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As the conflict between Israel and Iran enters its second week, European ministers are meeting Iran's top diplomat as part of efforts to end the fighting. Also; Spain's political crisis and the tigers making a comeback.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 20th of June, these are our main stories.

  • Iran and Israel have again traded airstrikes.

  • European foreign ministers are meeting with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva to de-escalate the crisis.

  • Also in this podcast...

  • I'm really worried about it.

  • For the young people that doesn't care about politics,

  • because this kind of thing that has happened is like disappointing to everyone.

  • We hear from Spain,

  • where many are wondering whether Pedro Sánchez's left-wing government will survive a recent corruption scandal.

  • And Thailand says the population of endangered Indo-Chinese tigers is making a remarkable recovery.

  • President Trump says he wants to give negotiations with Iran a chance before launching any US military action.

  • European foreign ministers are meeting with their Iranian counterpart Abbas Arachi in Geneva.

  • Sources involved have told the BBC that the Europeans will be offering Iran a take it or leave it on behalf of America that will aim to completely stop Iran's nuclear enrichment of uranium.

  • Kazra Nagy of BBC Persian Service is following developments.

  • We don't know what the details are really,

  • but listening to various people like the French and others,

  • it seems that what's on the table as far as the French and the Germans at least are concerned is a zero enrichment in Iran and a stop to ballistic missile program in Iran.

  • So they have brought the ballistic missile program into the fray

  • because the Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel has inflicted damage,