US strikes Iran nuclear facilities and joins war

美国袭击伊朗核设施,加入战争

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2025-06-22

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The United States has carried out massive precision strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran. The bombings early on Sunday at Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo took place after more than a week of Israeli air strikes on Iran. Republicans are divided on Trump's actions and Iranian foreign minister has accused Donald Trump of betraying the American people as well as Iran. (Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation alongside U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. U.S. June 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Pool)
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  • After the US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites,

  • you can listen to a special edition of the Global News podcast.

  • It looks at how much damage has been done to Tehran's nuclear programme and whether more attacks are to come.

  • There's reaction from around the world as well as analysis on the crucial question,

  • how will Tehran respond?

  • We'll have reporting and commentary from our correspondents.

  • Listen wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

  • Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kimarasamy.

  • In the end, he didn't wait for two weeks.

  • He didn't even wait for two days.

  • After appearing to give diplomacy a chance on Friday to step back from the brink of military action,

  • Donald Trump ordered attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites overnight using Tomahawk cruise missiles and so-called bunker-busting bombs.

  • A long-time sceptic of American involvement in foreign wars,

  • elected in part because it opposed past US entanglement in the Middle East,

  • the second Trump term will now be bound up with this choice.

  • A choice that may have dealt a decisive blow to Iran's nuclear programme,

  • removing a source of global instability, or to have made the world a far less stable place.

  • Whichever it is, and that might not be clear for some time,