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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I'm Charlotte Gallagher and this is an extra edition of the Global News Podcast to update you on the developments in the US-Israel war with Iran on Saturday the 7th of March. Today's main stories. The Iranian president, Massoud Peshishkian, says Iran will stop striking its Arab neighbors as long as no attacks originate from their territory. President Trump has characterized the remark as a surrender in response to relentless US and Israeli bombardment.
Chapter 2: What did the Iranian president apologize for regarding attacks on neighbors?
And we'll hear from northern Iraq, where Kurdish-Iranian opposition groups have been coming under attack. I'm located in the very center, close to the compound of the supreme leader that was actually attacking the first moment of the Israel and American attack. I feel like it was two streets from my house. One Tehran resident tells us about her experience of the war so far.
As the US-Israel war with Iran enters its second week, the Iranian president has apologised to Iran's Arab neighbours for striking them with missiles and drones. Arab countries hosting US military bases are adamant they've not allowed them to be used to launch attacks against Iran. Several Gulf countries also try to dissuade Washington from starting its bombing campaign.
In a televised speech, President Massoud Pesashkian said attacks would stop as long as no attacks come from those countries. I should apologise to the neighbouring countries that were attacked by Iran on my own behalf. What happened was that our commanders and our leader lost their lives following the barbaric aggression, and our armed forces, the champions that are sacrificing their lives to defend our territorial integrity, fired at will.
Because their commanders were absent and did whatever was necessary. They proudly and powerfully defended our homeland. On Friday, President Trump said only Iran's unconditional surrender would end hostilities. But President Pesach Kiokan ruled that out.
Chapter 3: How has President Trump's response shaped the narrative around Iran's actions?
That we surrender unconditionally, they should take that dream to their graves. What we are committed to are international law, human frameworks, and the principles they talk about. They should be committed to those principles.
Our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette, who was reporting from Iran not long ago, listened to the president's speech. The president is known for trying to strike conciliatory tones. You may remember that during the major protests, which were put down with lethal force, he apologised for the government's shortcomings, at least in economic matters, not in political ones. And here he is again now today offering a conciliatory tone, apologising to neighbouring states, particularly in the Gulf,
which have been coming under attack by Iranian forces. But he made it clear that this was not just his gesture. He said that a decision had been made by Iran's current leadership. It's a three-man interim leadership council, and they had decided that they would make this clear to neighboring states. And he had this interesting explanation, and we heard of it earlier from the foreign minister, Abbas Araki, when he was embarrassed that
Chapter 4: What impact do Iran's military actions have on Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq?
Oman, joka on pitkän aikavälin tärkeä johtaja, oli myös viranomainen. Hän sanoi, että ohjaus oli dekentralisoitunut. Pazhishyan sanoi, että sotilasohjaajat olivat viranomaisuudessaan ohjaamassa ohjaus. Haluaisin tarkoittaa, että he yrittävät tehdä päätöksiä yhä suoraan, jos voivat.
But there was still the caveat that if attacks by the US or Israel originate in countries with military bases, they would still be a target. So it's not clear what impact it will have. And it's been brushed off by President Trump.
Kyllä, ja minun pitäisi sanoa, että hallituksen päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän päätöksentekijän
And yes, to President Trump, of course, how swiftly he responded in the middle of the night in the United States. And he says, I'll read a little bit of it. Iran, which is beat to hell, hell in capital letters, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. And then he goes on to say, he says, Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East. And then in capital letters, they are the loser of the Middle East. It's such a harsh tone. And he said that they will...
They're going to be hit very hard. And sadly it has an echo of some of those petulant messages he has sent before. And it's hard to remember that about a year ago he said he wanted to be remembered as the president of peace and a unifier in the world.
Now there is talk of regime alteration in the wake of what's happened in Venezuela, of course. Donald Trump has been talking about he personally being involved in who will be the next leader in Iran and finding another Delcy Rodriguez, the equivalent of the Venezuelan deputy who has stepped up now to become an American ally in the wake of Maduro being taken into prison.
I think President Trump is realizing that his second job as commander-in-chief gives him this extraordinary sway. And he has such powerful military weapons, the strongest in the world, and therefore he can lose them at will. He calls Venezuela the perfect scenario, but it simply wouldn't work in Iran to take the leader off and then work with the administration that's left. That was Elise Doucette.
Our correspondent Barbara Platt-Usher has also been listening to the Iranian president's statement from the Qatari capital Doha. As Mr. Pozeshkin, the president, was issuing his recording, there was a missile attack here, which the Qataris intercepted. There have also been missile and drone strikes this morning, so I think it will be greeted with a fair bit of concern.
Skeptism. Now, what the president said was that the Iranian military units had acted on their own authority and did what they deemed necessary after their commanders were killed. It suggests that he's speaking about the decentralized...
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Chapter 5: What are the humanitarian implications of the ongoing conflict in Lebanon?
Kuulostaa niin, että hallitseminen, ainakin diplomatiikki- ja poliittinen hallitseminen, yrittää käsitellä asiaa, joka on todella rauhoittanut arabilähtiä, ja ehkä he näkevät, ettei se auttaisi heidän tapansa, iranian tapansa, koska luulostaa, että Gulfin hallitseminen jatkuu yhdessä Yhdysvalloissa, eikä Iranin tapansa.
Onko Katarissa jonkinlainen yllättäminen, että he ovat saaneet tähän konfliktiin? Kyllä ja ei. Katarin ja muiden arabien alueiden aloittamisen ennen sääntöä katarit huomioivat, että siltä voisi olla rauhallisia seurauksia. Katarit osallistuvat kaikki sääntöjen sääntöön ja iranit sanoivat, että he olisivat sääntöjä sääntöjen sääntöön.
He also warned the US that if the leadership felt there was an existential threat, that it was being targeted directly, then it could get much worse than that, and it might even involve the Iranians targeting their oil and gas industry. And that is what has happened, so it is their worst case scenario. But I think the week of quite relentless...
tai ainakin normaalin missailin ja dronepuhelin Iranista. Se, että se on tullut asiantuntijan alueille ja sotilaalliseen infrastruktuuriin, on myös jotain, jota... En ole varma, olisivatko he todella odottaneet sitä. En tiedä, olisivatko sotilaalliset odottaneet sitä. Se on ollut jotain, joka on todella tullut alueelle kohti. Olemme saaneet joitakin erittäin vahvoja sanoja, erityisesti Katarissa ja Yhdysvalloissa.
Se oli Barbara Platt-Usher, Doha-ryhmä. Kun rakennamme tämän podcastin, iranian mediareportit sanovat, että kaksi influenssia klerikkoja on kutsuttu nopeasti uuden suurin puolustusjärjestön valmistamiseen, jotta auttaisiin maailman yhdessä järjestämään yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä.
Israel is continuing to pound Lebanon, saying it's targeting strongholds of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah. Two Ghanaian UN peacekeepers have been critically wounded in a missile attack. The Lebanese health ministry says more than 200 people have been killed since airstrikes began.
The prime minister, Nawaf Salam, has warned a humanitarian disaster is looming as hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to leave their homes ahead of an anticipated ground incursion by the Israeli military. Tanja Babin from the humanitarian group MedGlobal is based in Beirut.
What we're witnessing right now in Lebanon is an extremely rapid humanitarian escalation. So in the last almost 72 hours now, since the massive evacuation orders in the south, in Dahye, in the southern suburbs of Beirut and in the Bekaa region, which is northeast, the scale and the speed of this displacement is pushing humanitarian resources to the absolute brink.
I've been speaking to our correspondent in Beirut, Lina Sinjarb. She first told me about those two UN peacekeepers that have been critically injured. Yhdysvallan puheenjohtajan puheenjohtajan puheenjohtajan puheenjohtaja
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Chapter 6: How are Iraqi forces responding to Iran's escalating attacks?
Lebanon presidentti Jozefa Aoun tuli uudistamaan ja välttämättämään israelilähtökohtaiset, jotka eivät tehneet mitään sanomia siitä. Vuoden 2024 viimeisellä rauhallisella maailmalla on ollut monia IDF-kysymyksiä UNIFILin ja sääntöön. On todella huomattavaa, että tällä hetkellä nämä kysymykset jatkuvat sääntöön.
Just in the past hour we've heard of an attack in the Bekaa Valley. At least a dozen people, probably more, were killed, which will bring the number of the total dead over 200, and that's likely to increase. For Lebanese people, they've gone through this so many times. I mean, I read an interview with one woman today who said, look, I've not even finished repairing my house from the last set of military strikes, and now it's been damaged again. You know, I spoke to one person who said it's generation after generation.
Hänen vanhempansa meni hänen vanhempansa kanssa, ja sitten hänen vanhempansa meni hänen kanssaan, ja nyt hän rauhoittaa heidän lapsensa kanssaan. Joten se on todella, jokaisen vuoden jälkeen, eläminen Israelin kanssa. Mutta tämän ajan voidaan nähdä lisää kriittisiä ääniä Hezbollahin kanssa, koska he eivät halunneet mitään kiinnostusta. He eivät saaneet takaisin vuoden vuoden 2024.
Joten Hezbollah päätti laittaa roketteja Israeliin, jolla he voivat vahvistaa ja vahvistaa yksilöitä suurin piirtein. Oletko uskonut, että tämä voisi olla todella tärkeä asia Hezbollahin Lebanonissa? Koska kuten sanoit, heidän tuotantonsa on vahvistettava ja ihmiset ovat niin järjestäneet tämän tilanteen.
Luulen, että poliittinen ja yleinen päätös on selvää Hezbollahista, mutta tämä ei ole yksi ryhmä, joka oli edustettu eilen. He aloittivat 1982 Iranin järjestäjien kanssa. He harjoittelivat heitä, he edustivat heitä ja he rahoittivat heitä, kun he aloittivat tämän pointin.
Although in the last war in 2024 they've lost 5,000 of their fighters, most of their leaders, Israel destroyed their weapons depot, but we can see today that they've managed to rearm themselves and they still have tens of thousands of fighters. So it really is going to cause a big rift in the society.
And yesterday the Lebanese prime minister asked for international help. Is there any sign that that is coming? I think the international community made it clear first the decision and the action to be taken from the Lebanese government, from the Lebanese army, so that they would be able to chip in. Even on the level of financial aid to rebuild and reconstruct, they also want to monitor.
Tämä on valtio, jossa on pitkä reputiivinen korrupti. Joten on paljon listoja, joita on tehty kansainvälisessä yhteiskunnassa Libanonista, ennen kuin joku voi tulla ja auttaa. Mutta oikeastaan tärkeä asia on, mitä tehdä Hezbollahin kanssa ja miten pysyä heitä.
That was Lina Sinjab in Beirut. Iraq has also been dragged into the conflict. There have been some explosions at several locations overnight. Drones attacked oil facilities in Basra and rockets targeted a complex near Baghdad airport, which has a military base and a U.S. diplomatic facility. Iran is also stepping up its attacks on Kurdish-Iranian opposition groups at their bases in northern Iraq. Ula Gören is in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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Chapter 7: What do residents in Tehran think about the current situation and military actions?
Se näyttäisi olevan tarkoittanut yksi suurimmista hotellista täällä, joka on melko suurta profiilista paikkoa. Lopulta ne olivat poistuneet, rauha jäi ylöspäin, ei ollut vaikeuksia, ei ollut käsityksiä, mutta se todennäköisesti lisännytti tanssia täällä. Myöhemmin oli huomioitunut Yhdysvalloista, että ihmiset tulisivat hotellista ulos, koska he uskoivat, että he voisivat olla tarkoitettuja.
Now the attack has been claimed by one of those pro-Iran militias. It's an Iraqi group based here, but supportive of the regime across the border. And we heard open threats yesterday from Tehran, a senior official there saying that
Täällä kaikenlaisia asioita olisi tarkoitettu, jos Kurdistan Peshmerga-puhelijat menisivät tänne Iranin puoleen. Tämä on koko ajan jatkuva historia. Nämä Peshmerga-puhelijat ovat osa oppositiivisista yrityksistä, joita on ollut täällä jo vuosikymmeniä. Presidentt Trump on nyt yleensä vahvistamassa heitä, että he tulevat osallistumaan maailmaan.
Olet kuullut, että hän sanoi, että se on mahtava idea ja hän on kaikki sen vuoksi. Jotenkaan he sanovat, että he eivät ole kohdannut rannasta. Valtuutettavuudet Bagdadissa ja Erbilissä, joka on autonomaista Kurdista alueella, kertovat, että emme halua heitä tekemään sitä, emme halua liittyä niihin. Emme halua, että meidän alueemme käytetään.
to launch attacks on our neighbor, but as the days go by here, the tension, the level of tension is increasing, and I would say the risk for Iraq of becoming embroiled.
That was Ola Gören reporting from Iraq. It remains difficult to know exactly what's going on inside Iran. The BBC, like most international media, can't freely report from the country and communications with people there remain difficult. But a few international journalists are still able to report from Tehran. Catalina Gomez has lived there for around 20 years and reports for the French news channel France 24 and Spain's La Vanguardia newspaper.
She spoke to James Menendez and began by telling him about the attacks which hit the city on Friday. It was basically around 5, 5.10 in the morning that several explosions came. They were dropping the bombs very consecutively and it lasted for five minutes. It was very strong. Everything was shaking.
You can feel the sound of the plane on the earth. Immediately all these pictures from Teheran started going out in the social media. They were very strong. You could see this huge attack in the city. And it continues during the day in different parts, east, west, and in the afternoon came back to the center very strongly. And those ones early in the morning at dawn, I mean, how close to you were they, do you think?
Olen paikallisessa keskellä ympäristöä, joka oli itse asiassa vahvistamassa ensimmäisen Israelin ja Amerikan vahvistuksen ensimmäisenä. Mielestäni se oli kuin kaksi kaupungista. Ja enemmän yleisesti, oletko pystynyt tutkimaan, mitä tapahtuu tämän kampanjan kanssa?
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