US launches “series of strikes” on Iran after ships attacked in strait of Hormuz |BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:00Now, in the last hour, the US military
2. 0:02has said that it's launched a series of
3. 0:04strikes against Iran in response to what
4. 0:06it said were three Iranian attacks on
5. 0:09commercial vessels in the straight of
6. 0:11Hormuz. Let's go straight to Washington
7. 0:13and to our correspondent, Iony Wells.
8. 0:15What more do we know, Iony?
9. 0:19>> Well, this is another fracture fracture
10. 0:21in this fragile ceasefire between the US
11. 0:24and Iran. And at the end of June, both
12. 0:26sides had agreed to stand down after tit
13. 0:28fortat strikes that has now fallen apart
14. 0:31in the last 24 hours. The US says it's
15. 0:33launched powerful strikes on Iran in
16. 0:36response to attacks on three commercial
17. 0:38ve v vessels in the straight of Hormuz.
18. 0:40Uh the US has also revoked licenses that
19. 0:43would have allowed the sale of Iranian
20. 0:45oil. The US has accused Iran of
21. 0:47violating this ceasefire. Uh Iran has
22. 0:50also accused the US of breaking the
23. 0:52memorandum on ending the war. Now this
24. 0:55comes as Iran has been holding state
25. 0:58funeral processions for its uh supreme
26. 1:01leader who was killed during the war and
27. 1:03as Donald Trump is at the NATO summit
28. 1:06where he has been repeating his
29. 1:07criticism of allies for not joining the
30. 1:09US in the war with uh Iran. Now, just
31. 1:13yesterday, Donald Trump said that the US
32. 1:15and Iran would make a deal, or in his
33. 1:17words, the US would finish the job.
34. 1:20What's not clear at this moment in time,
35. 1:22as these strikes have just begun, is
36. 1:24whether or not this is the US deciding
37. 1:26that diplomacy has now run its course,
38. 1:29or whether both sides might pull back
39. 1:31from the brink, as they did just nine
40. 1:33days ago. Ioni, thank you.