US targets Iran's nuclear sites - extra edition

美国瞄准伊朗核设施——增刊版

Global News Podcast

2025-06-22

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President Trump says US strikes have obliterated three Iranian nuclear facilities. The Israeli Prime Minister has called his decision bold; Iran says the attack is outrageous and will have everlasting consequences.
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  • This is an extra edition of the Global News Podcast on the US strikes on Iran from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Ankur Desai and at 5 o'clock GMT on Sunday the 22nd of June, these are the headlines.

  • President Trump says the US has carried out precision strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran,

  • totally obliterating them.

  • The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls his decision bold.

  • First comes strength, then comes peace.

  • And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with a lot of strength.

  • But Iran's foreign minister calls the attacks outrageous and warns they will have everlasting consequences.

  • The United States has attacked nuclear sites in Iran,

  • thereby entering the war launched by Israel against Iran nine days ago.

  • In a televised address at the White House,

  • President Trump said the three sites had been obliterated and urged Iran to make either peace or face more strikes.

  • Let's hear what he had to say.

  • A short time ago,

  • the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities.

  • in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.

  • Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.

  • Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

  • Tonight, I can report to the world.

  • that the strikes were a spectacular military success.