Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning. As economic uncertainty intensifies, Trump boasts military successes in the war. The Wall Street Journal explains how Iran was caught off guard. The evidence we have right now is that they are suffering severe losses in their stockpile, and that's really hampering their ability to continue to fire missiles.
What to know about the attempted terrorist attack in New York City, and how Iran's women's soccer players stood up to the regime and won asylum in Australia. It's Tuesday, March 10th. I'm Cecilia Ley, and this is Apple News Today. President Trump told CBS News on Monday that the war with Iran is, quote, very complete, pretty much.
Stocks climbed at those words, but then just a couple of hours later, he amended his previous statement, saying instead that the U.S. hadn't, quote, won enough. At a press conference last night, he cautioned that the conflict wouldn't be over this week, but did reiterate that the U.S.
Chapter 2: Why are Iran's missile attacks slowing down?
had made major strides. We could call it a tremendous success right now as we leave here, I could call it, or we could go further, and we're going to go further. But... The big risk on that war has been over for three days. We wiped them out in the first two days. Since the war began, Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have struck a triumphant tone in their updates on the battleground.
And so far at least, the damage and the death tolls appear to be mostly on one side, though it's hard to know exactly what remains of Iran's capabilities. So far, this has been a war fought in the skies. One tactic from Iran has been to utilize cheap drones. The BBC estimates that Iran has launched around 2,000 of them since the war started. It's also fired out hundreds of ballistic missiles.
But as David Cloud from The Wall Street Journal told us, that rate has declined sharply. In the early days, there were hundreds of missiles fired in a day, often in sort of large salvos. That has dropped off the table as the U.S. and Israeli attacks on their missile launching sites have continued. And so now you're just seeing sporadic firing.
Cloud reports that Iran has now turned to deep underground bunkers for the remaining stockpile. In order to protect themselves, they started digging deep bunkers to both store the missiles and potentially to fire them from in order to make sure that they were as much as possible protected from airstrikes from the U.S. and Israel. But that may have been a tactical mistake.
These deep bunkers haven't offered the kind of security the Iranians hoped for. Instead, they're a precise target. The U.S. and Israel have been pouring over satellite shots for years to try to identify where these places are.
And since the war started, they've been hitting them heavily, both on the surface, but also as the campaign has gone along, you know, to try to get underneath the surface to destroy the bunkers by collapsing them. Trump alluded to this in his address last night, suggesting that they had seen a 90 percent decline in Iranian missile launches.
As soon as they sent a missile up from a launcher, we were able to knock out that launcher within a period of five minutes or less, accurately right on the noggin. It's possible that the regime is now rationing supplies. One research analyst told Cloud that because no one can fully count Iran's arsenal, it's hard to predict how long they could last in a conflict.
It began with an act of political defiance on a soccer field. Last week, Iran's women's soccer team walked out to play their first game in the Asia Cup held in Australia. That was the Iranian national anthem. But what you can't hear is any singing. That's because the players refused, an act that was seen as a protest against Iran's regime.
Nassim Kadem is a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation based in Melbourne. Now, this might not seem like a very big deal to us, but it's really a strong act of resistance that can get them and their families into a lot of trouble. Kadem says the reaction from Iranian officials was swift and severe, with some labelling the players as traitors.
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