2025-06-22
18 分钟This is a special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Sunday the 22nd of June, these are our headlines.
Iran condemns the US attacks on its nuclear facilities as a betrayal of diplomacy.
Donald Trump says US bombers have totally obliterated Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities,
but Tehran denies that they've been destroyed.
Also in this podcast,
we look at the consequences for financial markets and what options does Iran have to respond to the attacks.
In our earlier podcast, we brought you news of the US attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran.
President Trump said the Iranian nuclear installations had been completely obliterated.
Shortly before we recorded this podcast, the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, gave an update.
This is a plan that took months and weeks of positioning and preparation so that we could be ready when the President of the United States called.
It took a great deal of precision.
It involved misdirection and the highest of operational security.
Our B-2s went in and out of downtown Tehran, these nuclear sites,
in and out and back without the world knowing at all.
In that way, it was historic.
Our Washington correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, spoke to my colleague, James Kumarasamy.
We're getting a timeline which involves some of these bombers,
around five of these big bombers taking off to the east from the United States.
There was a decoy sent westwards, which the chairman of the Joint Chiefs has been talking about.