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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.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're beginning with a highly contested legacy of 12 days of war between Israel and Iran.
A war which of course also very directly involved the United States with its bombing of Iranian nuclear sites and the Iranian missiles fired towards a US military base in Qatar.
Just how contested has come both in the United States,
with differing assessments from American intelligence agencies about the level of damage inflicted on Iran's nuclear programme.
We'll have more on that in just a moment.
But it's also come out of Iran, because today,
for the first time since the ceasefire was agreed with Israel,
there was an appearance, albeit via a recorded video message,
from the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who'd not been seen.
for more than a week.