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This week on True Crime reports, up to 100,000 children go missing in China every year, a number that links back to the 1970s and the one child policy. This story is about one of those children and the mother who spent decades searching for him. Hear the full story on True Crime Reports. Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. This week on the Take, we're marking one year since a pair of devastating earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria with a new digital interactive. Listen and watch stories of survival, recovery and coping with the grief@al jazeera.com earthquakes Again, that's al jazeera.com earthquakes Netanyahu's war on Iran has been more than 30 years in the making as Israel and the US push for regime change, controversial figures are being given airtime on Western media. Israeli military censors tighten their grip while anchors in news studios celebrate the war and why haven't journalists learned lessons from their coverage of past wars? This was the war that everyone expected, but no one saw coming, certainly not when negotiations between Washington and Tehran about Iran's nuclear program were ongoing. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war on Iran was necessary, that Tehran was dangerously close to building a nuclear weapon. He's been saying this for decades. Though intelligence reports from the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency refute Netanyahu's assertions, Western media reporting on whether Iran was building a bomb or not has been cagey when it should have been clear. There has been some pushback, but also an acceptance that Israel, backed by the United States, is out for regime change. After carrying out a genocide in Gaza for nearly two years unimpeded, there's little that really stands in the way of Israel inflicting serious damage on an Iranian leadership that has already been weakened regionally and and domestically. Where this ends, no one can say. But as past wars of aggression have shown, these stories usually don't end well. It took less than a week for what Benjamin Netanyahu claimed were pre emptive strikes against Iran to morph into open calls for regime change.
Interviewer/Reporter (2:37)
President Trump has called for Iran's unconditional surrender.
Host/Anchor (2:41)
The stunning speed with which Iran and Israel's war ignited was due in November, small part to the more than three decades of relentless scaremongering that Netanyahu has engaged in and all the media attention his gimmicks and hyperbolic statements have received.
Benjamin Netanyahu (2:56)
It's not a question of whether you'd like to see a regime change in Iran, but how to achieve it from there. It's only a few Months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first lams. Khamenei wants nuclear weapons for Iran.