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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, Chris.
Hi. Shall we just explain what we're doing?
I think we are acknowledging that our conversation not many hours ago has been completely overtaken by events.
It's a classic newscast scenario.
Is that right?
Yes.
So what you will hear in a minute is the episode of newscast we recorded on Thursday evening,
looking back at the week's big events,
obviously one of which was the impending U-turn on the government's changes to the benefit system.
And at the point when we recorded it, we knew something was coming.
We knew the U-turn was coming.
We just didn't know if it would be that night, the next day, next week.