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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway from the Global News Podcast,
answering your questions on the Israel-Iran conflict and what it means for Iran and the wider region.
I'm joined by Behrang Tajdin of the BBC Persian Service and our security correspondent Frank Gardner.
The tectonic plates of power in the Middle East have shifted dramatically in the last year and a half in Israel's favour.
It has shown that it can penetrate all of Iran's air defences and strike when and where it wants.
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Hello and welcome to NewsHour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
The US airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program at the weekend were the most complex secretive military operation in history,
according to the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth.
He made the comments today at a press conference in which he lambasted the journalists in the room for what he perceived as their lack of enthusiasm and lack of praise for President Trump and their reporting of a leaked intelligence report that suggested the mission may have had limited success.
We'll have more on the intelligence issues in a moment.
First Secretary Hegseth was speaking about an hour after the Supreme Leader of Iran,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made his first video appearance since the war with Israel.
He downplayed the damage done to his nuclear programme by the US airstrikes.
The President of the United States exaggerated events in unusual ways,
and it turns out he needed this exaggeration.
Anyone who's heard these words has understood there is another truth behind them.
The US has failed to take action and has not achieved their intended objective.