First response gathered outside a building that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran.
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First response gathered outside a building that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran.
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At the beginning of Friday the local time, Israel finally did what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in danger of doing for years: it launched a massive attack on the nuclear facilities of Iran, in which the best military commanders, nuclear scientists, nuclear scientists and – according to Iran – dozens of Iranian citizens were killed.
The attacks have again deposited the volatile area into unknown waters.
NPR correspondent Hadeel Al-Shalchi in Tel Aviv and NPR’s National Security Correspondent Greg Myre discuss what this could mean for the region and for the hope of a deal that limits Iran’s nuclear program.
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This episode was produced by Michael Leavitt, Marc Rivers and Jordan Marie Smith. It was edited by James Hider, Krishnadev Calamur, Jeanette Woods and Connor Donevan. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
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