Iran condemns US attacks on its nuclear facilities

伊朗谴责美国对其核设施的袭击

Global News Podcast

2025-06-22

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Iran's foreign minister says the US crossed a big red line by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. We ask what options Tehran has now. Also: Markets are reacting calmly so far, but worries remain.
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  • 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.