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How big a threat is Iran’s military now? | Global News Podcast
The US and Iran have traded strikes, as negotiations to extend their ceasefire drag on without a resolution. On Monday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted an air base used by US forces. It also threatened to open “new fronts” in the conflict, and keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, in response to Israel’s offensive in Lebanon.
So how great a threat does Iran’s military pose to the US and its allies, after more than three months of war?
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that Iran’s forces have been “decimated”. But new analysis by the BBC has found that Iran has damaged at least 20 US military sites across the Middle East since the start of the war – suggesting the attacks are more extensive than publicly acknowledged. Using cheap drones, Iran has targeted American military equipment worth millions of dollars including THAAD batteries.
Iranian forces have also reportedly reopened several missile sites damaged early in the conflict.
We ask Merlyn Thomas from BBC Verify and Parham Ghobadi from BBC Persian about Iran’s military capacity and what it means for the chances of a deal between Washington and Tehran.
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00:00 Introduction
00:47 How much damage has Iran done to US bases?
01:36 Iran’s cheap drone warfare
02:34 Iran re-opens missile sites, reportedly
03:55 US tries to limit analysis of the conflict
05:05 What Iran’s military capacity means for negotiations
06:51 How Iranian civilians feel
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Houses, cars, and a bus were set on fire in Belfast last night in a night of violence that followed a knife attack on Monday.
The suspect, a 30-year-old Sudanese man who claimed asylum in the UK, is in court later.
In one area, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted “foreigners out”, our reporter says.
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill says “groups of masked men” were “burning families out of their homes” – Chief Constable Jon Boutcher says the violence was a “huge act of self-harm by mindless idiots”.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has described the chaos in Belfast on Tuesday night as “shocking and completely unacceptable”.
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Air India crash victim ‘got earlier flight’ because she missed her husband. #AirIndia #BBCNews
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Myanmar’s civil war has claimed almost 100,000 lives.
In 2021 the country’s military seized power in a coup. After losing ground to rebel and ethnic groups, it’s making a renewed push, carrying out the forced-recruitment of tens of thousands of conscripts and employing new drone technology.
The United Nations’ human rights spokesman has condemned the military’s tactics which he’s called brutal and said that civilians are paying a terrible price.
BBC correspondent, Quentin Sommerville and Camera Journalist Darren Conway have spent time with rebel groups.
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On 12 June 2025, a London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India, killing at least 260 people, including 241 passengers and crew on board.
Investigators have yet to publish their final findings into the cause of the crash.
A preliminary report into the incident from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau found both of the plane’s fuel switches moved to the “cut-off” position “immediately” after take-off, stopping fuel supply to the engine.
What is not clear however, is what actually caused the crash.
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Putin rejects Zelensky meeting saying Russia âwill achieve its goalsâ in Ukraine | BBC News
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has rejected a call from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet for peace talks.
Speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg, President Putin said there was no point in a meeting – and said military operations would only cease when Moscow had achieved its goals. Â
Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg in St Petersburg.
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