Iran: Attacks on Lebanon are 'grave violation'
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What are you still waiting for? This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and we're recording this edition at 15 GMT on Thursday, the 9th of April. Iran's president accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire deal with its deadly bombardment of Lebanon and warns negotiations with the United States on ending the war will be meaningless if attacks continue. But Israel pledges to keep striking Hezbollah targets. Also in this podcast, Argentina approves a law making it easier to mine in glacier regions, but campaigners say it threatens crucial water sources. And what's it like to watch your husband blast off into space? A lot of excitement, a lot of anxiety, but we are just so, so happy to see him living his dreams.
So we're having the time of our lives watching him. We'll hear from Dr. Catherine Hansen, wife of the Artemis II Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Starting in the Middle East, the world takes a collective inhale of breath as we wait to see if the U.S. ceasefire with Iran will collapse. The Iranian president, Massoud Pazeshkian, has said negotiations with the United States on ending the war will be meaningless if Israel maintains its attacks on Lebanon. He vowed that Tehran would not abandon the Lebanese people. Iran's deputy foreign minister, Saeed Hatibzadeh, told the BBC the strikes on Lebanon were a grave violation.
You cannot have a cake and eat it at the same time. That was the message that Iran sent quite clearly, crystal clearly to Washington and to the Oval Office last night. And our foreign minister also said that you cannot ask for a ceasefire and then accept, you know, the areas that, you know, ceasefire is applied to and name Lebanon, exactly Lebanon in that. And then your ally just start a massacre. Actually, it was a sort of genocide, you know, by the regime of Israel in Lebanon, just immediately after the ceasefire was accepted.
More than 200 were killed in Wednesday's strikes, and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to keep attacking the Iran-backed group Hezbollah wherever necessary. Meanwhile, Donald Trump says U.S. forces will remain in the region until Tehran complies with what he described as the real agreement. He's pushing for Iran to allow ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a move which would allow a significant portion of the world's oil to flow again. At this rate, will the U.S. and Iran make it to Saturday when they're scheduled to sit down for talks in Pakistan? Let's hear from our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette.
Israel now says it has killed the nephew of Naim Qassan. He's the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon. He's the personal secretary as well in the organization. To Iran, this will again emphasize that this ceasefire is being violated and it will again test security. just how committed it is to at least keeping the pretense of a ceasefire alive, that it can continue with what are expected to be talks with the United States at a high level in Islamabad over the weekend.
How much pressure are the Americans, is Donald Trump under at the moment, to open the Strait of Hormuz and to bring down the global price of oil to keep this ceasefire in place?
Well, first of all, on J.D. Vance, he said that this is a misunderstanding of Iran. Lebanon was never part of the deal. But yet, if you go back to that post on social media of the Pakistani prime minister, Shabazz Sharif, and it has emerged that the United States played a role, it seems, in drafting a tweet, which was very much in the style of President Trump.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:20
2
What does Iran's President say about Israel's attacks on Lebanon?
7:20–8:12
3
How does Israel respond to accusations of violating the ceasefire?
8:12–8:29
4
What implications does the new mining law in Argentina have?
8:29–9:46
5
What are the personal experiences of NASA's Artemis II astronaut's family?
9:46–19:50
6
How are the U.S. and Iran's negotiations impacted by ongoing attacks?
19:50–31:37
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