Whatever happened to Iran’s nuclear programme?

伊朗的核计划怎么了?

The Global Story

2025-12-01

27 分钟
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Last June, Israel and the United States carried out coordinated strikes on nuclear and military sites across Iran in what became known as the 12-day war. The aim was clear: destroy Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facilities amid warnings that Tehran was dangerously close to developing a nuclear weapon. But conflicting reports in the immediate aftermath left the public uncertain about how effective the operation really was. Six months after the bombings, we speak with Parham Ghobadi, senior reporter for BBC Persian, about what the war actually achieved, the current state of Iran’s nuclear programme, and what daily life inside Iran looks like today. Producer: Viv Jones and Valerio Esposito Executive producer: James Shield Sound engineer: Travis Evans Senior news editor: China Collins (Photo: A US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Credit: US Air Force)
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  • My co-host, Asma Khalid, has been on a much-deserved Thanksgiving break.

  • But before she left, in one of our team meetings, she asked this question.

  • Remember the moment the US bombed Iran?

  • What happened next?

  • Well, today we're going to try and answer that.

  • The bombing was back in June, almost six months ago, and it was a perilous moment.

  • It happened at the end of the so-called 12-day war between Israel and Iran,

  • and there were fears that it could lead to a war that could spread throughout the Middle East and even destabilize the world.

  • Thankfully, that didn't happen, and the Iran story slipped off the international headlines.

  • But then, recently, social media started filling up with this.

  • Scenes of people parting on the streets of Tehran.

  • Women without hijabs, mixing with men.

  • The sort of thing that we're told is fiercely repressed in Iran.

  • So how do we get from that to this?

  • From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redman in London.

  • And today on The Global Story,

  • did the so-called 12-day war succeed in destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program?