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Iranian missiles trigger air raid sirens across Israel

Israel says it has targeted Iranian missile launch and storage facilities and killed an Iranian drone commander.

The Israeli military says it has launched a new wave of air strikes against Iranian missile storage and launch infrastructure.For an Iranian perspective, we are joined by Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and spokesman for Iran in its nuclear negotiations.

Also in the programme: In an historic move, MPs have voted to back a bill legalising assisted dying in England and Wales; and, following talks in Geneva to to curb the recent spike in hostilities between Israel and Iran, a debate is unfoldoing within the Republican party and the president's MAGA movement over whether the US should get involved.

Presenter Paul Henley is joined by Latika Bourke, an Australian author and journalist for The Nightly Australia, in London and Vali Nasr, Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and former official at the US State department in Rome.

(Photo: A resident prepares to spend the night in an old reopened nuclear shelter under Tel Aviv's central bus station in the southern area of the city in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 20, 2025. Reuters/Violeta Santos Moura)

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  • Sat 21 Jun 2025 06:06GMT