Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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OP Koti on hyvä valinta elämäsi tilanteisiin. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton and it's 1600 GMT on Monday, the 2nd of March. These are our main stories. The U.S.-Israel war with Iran enters its third day. The conflict is broadening with Israel striking the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The U.S.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. is carrying out a devastating mission with U.S. forces trying to destroy Iran's security infrastructure. Iranian officials remain defiant. The head of the country's Supreme National Security Council said Iran would fiercely defend itself and make its enemies sorry for what he called their miscalculation.
Also in this podcast, explosions have been heard in capital cities across the region, including Abu Dhabi, Kuwait City and in Doha as Iran retaliates. We do hear regularly explosions in the air as the Qataris intercept missiles and drones. There's been some damage and several injuries as a result of falling debris. And inside Iran, the Red Cross says 555 people have been killed in the attacks.
We've been receiving messages from those on the ground. People feel anxious and elated all at once. With every explosion, some shout with joy from their windows. We're devoting all of this edition to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. Day three now, and the conflict has been broadening, affecting a whole list of countries in the region. And inside Iran, the aerial assaults are continuing.
A short while ago, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kaine, gave a news conference at the Pentagon. Mr. Hegseth says the U.S. is carrying out what he described as a devastating mission. This is not Iraq. This is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so does this president.
He called the last 20 years of nation-building wars dumb, and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the Navy, no nukes. Israel has clear missions as well, for which we are grateful.
unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force. America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history, all on our terms, with maximum authorities.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the US-Israel conflict with Iran?
And he was repeating that line that we'd heard from President Trump over the weekend, calling on the Iranian people to rise up. Now, you know, of course, many military analysts will point out that it is difficult to see regime change when you just have aerial support with an air campaign. In terms of a justification for this conflict.
Pete Hegseth said that they had tried to lie their way to a nuclear bomb. And essentially, the argument from the administration is that Iran was not negotiating in good faith on a nuclear deal following Operation Midnight Hammer and those strikes in June of last year. Helena Humphrey speaking to Regine Vadianathan. To Lebanon now, which is being pulled into the Iran conflict.
Overnight, the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, fired missiles into Israel towards the Israeli city of Haifa. The group said this was to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader. And Israel responded, launching strikes on Hezbollah targets across the country.
Since the early hours of the morning, explosions have been rocking the capital, Beirut, and thousands of people have fled their homes. The Israel Defense Forces released a statement saying that Hussein Makled, the head of Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters, was killed in Sunday's strike. Nadav Shoshani is a spokesman from the Israel Defense Forces.
Overnight, the IDF carried out retaliatory strikes against several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including command and control centers, launch sites, and senior terrorists. We were ready for this. As part of the preparations for our operation in Iran, the IDF prepared for an attack from Hezbollah, allowing us to carry out a swift response. Hezbollah is entering a fight it cannot win.
Lebanon's health ministry reported that at least 31 people have been killed. The country's prime minister has announced that the government banned Hezbollah's armed activities, marking one of the clearest challenges to the group's authority. Our correspondent Lina Sinjab gave us this update from Beirut about the Israeli strikes.
It was immediately after Hezbollah launched an attack into Israel in retaliation, they say, for the killing of the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei. Israel launched its strikes here in the southern suburb of Beirut, in the south of Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley.
And just like an hour ago or so, there were more strikes in Baalbek and also in the south of Lebanon and here also in the suburb. And as I'm talking to you, probably you can hear in the background the sound of the drones. That is coming back as well by Israeli drones surveying over the sky of Lebanon and over Beirut.
And this is all of a reminder of, you know, a three-month-long war that took place 18 months ago where Israel, you know, assassinated the top leadership of Hezbollah, crippled its power and, you know, left many of their strongholds in destruction. And what we're seeing today is just a déjà vu of a war that happened. Families are fleeing again.
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Chapter 3: How is Iran responding to the US and Israel's military actions?
So let's talk more about the political reaction to what's going on there. Ghassan Hasbani is Lebanon's former deputy prime minister and is a sitting MP for the Lebanese Forces Party, the largest political grouping in parliament.
It's exactly what we've been warning against for a long time, that Hezbollah is acting outside the control of the Lebanese government, basically bringing Lebanon into a regional conflict that has nothing to do with Lebanon itself. specifically and still proving day after day that they are directly linked and controlled by the Iranian current regime.
Our biggest concern is that Lebanon in its majority rejects the acts of Hezbollah and the government of Lebanon has taken a clear decision to curb the activities of Hezbollah and dismantle the military infrastructure of Hezbollah in Lebanon. This has been a slow process, which has actually led to where we are today.
We do hope that Lebanon can still avoid being part of this regional conflict and that the government can expedite its activities in terms of controlling weapons and having exclusivity over war and peace decisions and holding and carrying arms across the country. Yet this conflict is expanding, no doubt, and nobody knows how long it will be for.
But definitely Lebanon should not be part of it and is not capable of handling further conflicts and further devastation. We have people leaving their homes. We have people dying, lots of people injured today. And the economy is already very fragile with an economic crisis that we're trying to address. So Lebanon is not in a position to withstand any further conflicts.
Ghassan Hasbani from the Lebanese Forces Party. And now let's focus on what's happening inside Iran. People there are experiencing their third day of aerial attacks. The Iranian Red Crescent says more than 550 people have been killed since Saturday. Though it hasn't disclosed who the victims are, it's not clear whether they're civilian casualties or members of the security forces.
It's difficult to gather information from Iran at the best of times. The regime strictly limits who's allowed in to report. And now, intermittent internet blackouts there make it even harder to reach ordinary people. But our BBC Persian service has received some messages from those on the ground in Tehran. Here are some, voiced by our producers. People feel anxious and elated all at once.
With every explosion, some shout with joy from their windows. It was the same on Saturday night. So many people were out on the streets, dancing and celebrating. The celebrations began the very moment they heard the strikes. People were incredibly happy. I think the timing of the announcement of Khamenei's death on state television was deliberate.
They likely wanted to prevent people from pouring into the streets to protest. They announced it just before the call to prayer in the early hours of the morning. When I speak to people in the streets, they say they're fine. Frightened of the missiles, of course, but happy somehow. Their main concern is that the US might make a deal and the authorities begin oppressing people all over again.
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