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1:05New images of the Ayatollah's compound Decimated the country's supreme leader now belief to be dead other attacks inflicted very great losses on their leadership Iran firing back against its neighbors Hitting this high rise in Bahrain Oh my god, a drone blasting down in Dubai An intercepted missile crashing near crowds This explosion near a U.S. Navy base And Tel Aviv coming under attack Hotels for Western tourists and airports hit across the region We're getting our first look at the damage inside of Iran. This is the moment for action President Trump addressing the nation in the early morning hours laying out the mission's objectives They will never have a nuclear weapon Iran's foreign ministers speaking out to NBC News. There is no limit for us to defend ourselves

2:08But what happens now that the Ayatollah is dead what President Trump just told our Kristen Welker about the timeline for the mission And the growing questions. What is the end game? How involved will the U.S. be our corresponded spread out across the region tonight as America's attacks on Iran may only be getting started This is a special edition of NBC Nightly News the U.S. strikes Iran. Here is Tom Yames And good evening. We begin tonight with what could be the most consequential action President Trump has ever taken The commander-in-chief saying supreme leader Ayatollah Hamani was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes across Iran today This is the aftermath the Ayatollah's compound. You see it there seemingly Leveled many of the country's top leaders were also taken out according to President Trump That action killing ahead of state a seismic shift in strategy with untold consequences inside Iran and across the region

3:14Iran for decades a sworn enemy of the United States today firing back Launching attacks not just on Israel, but on other nations across the region Watch as a drone smashes right into this high rise in Bahrain. You can see it here from a wider angle look at that This hotel and Dubai popular with tourists and westerners also hit as well And there was this attack near a U.S. Navy service center in the region The U.S. reporting multiple attacks on American bases across the Middle East, but so far no U.S. casualties The president released a video in the early morning hour saying the goal is to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons He spoke to our Kristen Welker late today suggesting this mission is far from over And though Iran has not confirmed the Supreme Leader is dead There were celebrations by Iranian Americans in the streets today Hope that a horrific regime is nearing its end But there are also growing questions tonight about who will lead Iran now And there is criticism from some lawmakers that the president is marching the U.S. into a war with no clear endgame

4:20Our correspondence tonight are spread out across the region and here in the U.S But we begin with at least one objective the killing of the country's leader seeming to have been achieved Tonight the stunning and surprised rise U.S. jets and Tomahawk's targeting Iran as part of a joint U.S. and Israeli operation Leading to a historic moment in the Middle East President Trump posting the leader of Iran's Islamic regime Ayatollah Ali Hamani is dead Calling him one of the most evil people in history Adding he was unable to avoid our intelligence and highly sophisticated tracking systems And working closely with Israel There was not a thing he or the other leaders that have been killed along with him could do Hamani a political and religious leader led Iran which is designated by the U.S. as one of the world's top sponsors of terrorism since 1989 His compound in Tehran seen in this satellite image completely destroyed the daylight strikes left smoke billowing over Iran's capital

5:27This vehicle on fire and a crater in the middle of the city Israel releasing this footage striking a ballistic missile launcher You can actually see the Iranians as they were preparing to fire President Trump inside Mar-a-Lago seen watching it all unfold flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles announcing operation epic fury this morning Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating Eminent threats from the Iranian regime a vicious group of very hard Terrible people for 47 years the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged An unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder Targeting the United States are troops at the innocent people in many many countries It's been mass terror and we're not going to put up with it any longer

6:27Tonight Iran retaliating Israeli air defenses taking out many of the incoming missiles and drones Here Israelis huddling under an overpass and crowding inside underground shelters And also tonight in a surprise move the Iranian regime also lashing out against multiple Arab countries including striking civilian targets In Dubai you can see an Iranian strike on a hotel from several different angles The Fairmont Dubai Palm Hotel hit and erupting in flames and this image from a blown-out hotel room Here Iranian projectiles streaking across the sky That's an Iranian drone nearly striking the Burj Khalifa the tallest building in the world In Qatar people scrambling as debris from an intercept that Iranian missile falls on a street In Kuwait an Iranian drone striking and damaging terminal one of Kuwait's international airport

7:28And in Bahrain tonight look at this Iranian strike on a downtown high rise Some were inside this building filming as an Iranian drone makes impact and huge plumes of smoke visible for miles when an Iranian drone hit the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet The Pentagon saying no one was injured President Trump saying one of the U.S. goals to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon The U.S. destroyed Iran's nuclear sites last year But the president saying the Iranian regime has been trying to rebuild And that ongoing negotiations were not working This terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon We sought repeatedly to make a deal We tried They wanted to do it They didn't want to do it Again, they wanted to do it They didn't want to do it They didn't know what was happening They just wanted to practice evil For weeks the president building up U.S. military forces in the region telling me this in our interview earlier this month should the supreme leader in Iran be worried right now

8:36I would say he should be very worried. Yeah, he should be and now suggesting one of the goals was to remove the Iranian regime Delivering this warning to Iran's military lay down your arms You will be treated fairly with total immunity or You will face certain death The president saying he's trying to aid protesters in Iran The regime's brutal crackdown estimated to have killed thousands to the great proud people of Iran I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand When we are finished take over your government. It will be yours to take for many years You have asked for America's help, but you never got it No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass And as those attacks are still ongoing tonight I want to bring in our Kristen Welker who spoke with president Trump late today and Kristen He told you it's more than just the supreme leader who was targeted

9:39Tom that's right in our short phone call the president told me the strikes have caused very great losses on their leadership Adding tremendous damage has been inflicted the people that make all the decisions most of them are gone Now what he couldn't answer who exactly would replace Iran's supreme leader The president also revealed the damage came from at least three targeted attacks on senior Iranian leaders And Tom I asked him how will he know if the operation has been a success The president responded I think it's already a success now looming large over all of this just how long should Americans prepare for this operation to last The president tonight writing bombing will last through the week Tom Kristen Welker with a lot of new reporting for us on this story Kristen we thank you for that I want to get right over to Richard Angle whose live in Israel tonight where you and your team have seen those incoming missiles all day and night And Richard you just traveled to Iran days ago There's been no official Iranian response about the Ayatollah But if it is true talk about who comes next

10:41Well Ayatollah how many was an old man extraordinarily stubborn He often made it clear that he would have preferred to be a martyr than to compromise He also kept his succession plans a secret and as of tonight We don't know exactly how many of his potential successors have also been killed and right now Tom You can probably hear my phone going off that means that there is another potential Iranian strike coming in right at this moment There have also been civilian casualties in this conflict According to Iranian officials dozens of girls were killed in a strike that hit a school And here in Israel at least one woman was killed by an Iranian missile that hit a building very close to where I'm standing right now And Richard if you have to take shelter you can do that But in the meantime, I do want to ask you this is also happening after all those protesters took to the streets in Iran We saw that the world saw that facing that brutal government crackdown the economy there is in shambles

11:45They're having problems just getting drinking water to people many Iranians have been demanding change And now there's a moment where they may be able to get it I've been speaking Tom to members of the Iranian opposition tonight and they are delighted This government is deeply popular in Iran when I was in Tehran not long ago A man came up to us on the street and he tore up a picture of the supreme leader But just because the regime is unpopular and now weakened Doesn't mean that you can have a smooth or easy transition of power Tom Richard Angle we thank you for that you and your team. Please stay safe tonight Let's turn to Kier Simmons in Dubai Kier Dubai views itself as a place of stability in the turbulent middle east But today you were seeing all these strikes happening at hotels and other places around you That's right Tom at times today. It has felt like a bombardment here explosion After explosion in the sky into the night as those missiles and drones have been intercepted messages on our phones

12:47Like you heard with Richard they're telling us to shelter in place just to reassure you Tom I am standing close to our home and I am under shelter But the UAE just the United Arab Emirates here saying that it has been targeted by 137 missiles And 209 drones alone and not just a basis here in this region, but civilian targets Hotels the airport near here has been here. Thankfully it had been evacuated Tom You know this feels like a furious reaction from Iran some kind of retribution perhaps even Desperation of the news of the possible death of its leader of Tom Please stay safe out there. All right Kier Simmons for us And we are learning new details about the military assets the US used for the strikes are senior national security correspondent Courtney cubie joins us now in coordinating the US using Suicide drones for the first time ever Yeah, that's right Tom this ongoing campaign against Iran marks the first time the US has used so-called one-way attack drones in combat

13:52Now those are drones packed with explosives that slam into a target US Central Command says this is the largest regional concentration of American military firepower in a generation Already today the US has fired at hundreds of targets inside Iran According to two US officials It includes precision Tomahawk land attack missiles fired from US Navy ships in the region Also strikes from fighter jets including F-35s F-18s and F-15s launching for both land and sea A senior Trump administration officials said the short-term threat is Iran's ballistic missile program And that is part of what the US military is targeting today missile and drone launch sites air defense sites and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control sites The advanced weapons that the US used in the attack are not just for the strikes though The US also expects to use them to defend against Iran's retaliation which continues tonight Tom Courtney Cubi, we thank you for that. Let's head to the White House and turn to President Trump's decision To launch these attacks and what prompted him to make the call now. Here's Garrett Hake

14:55After months of close coordination with Israel and weeks of direct negotiations with Iran President Trump ordered the attack overnight from his Mar-a-Lago home The president briefly dropping in on a charity gala held in the ballroom Then huddling with advisors to monitor strikes in a makeshift command center seen in these White House photos The president explaining his decision making in a video posted at 2 30 this morning They rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions And we can't take it anymore The administration's analysis was that Iran's efforts to reconstitute its nuclear program after last summer strikes Along with its refusal to discuss its ballistic missile program constituted a quote, intolerable risk to the US According to senior administration officials the calculus a preemptive strike would risk fewer US and allied casualties than sitting back and waiting As the president traveled to a rally in Texas yesterday a strike decision seemed far from certain

15:59We haven't made a final decision. We're not exactly happy with the way he's been negotiated How close are you to making an accident on strikes? I'd rather than that tell you You would have the greatest scoop in history, right? Now we have a big decision to make. I'd rather do it the peaceful way, but they're very difficult people Congressional Republicans have largely defended the president's decisions while Democrats have sharply criticized them vowing to force a vote to restrict his war powers next week We are spending billions of dollars on this operation and it's not putting groceries on your table It's not helping you buy a home. It's not helping you send a kid to school if this is not what Americans want Garrett let's pick it up right there Does Congress have any ability here to limit the president's use of force against Iran now? Well, Tom Democrats say they'll force these war powers act votes next week Which could curtail future strikes, but with Republicans so far in lockstep with the president Those votes are unlikely to do anything other than give lawmakers a chance to get their opposition on the record

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20:10But they caution the situation could change these guys are going to want to strike back Who's the most vulnerable that domestically? It's usually our biggest cities New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago They they brought a strike where there's impact in recent years the FBI and NYPD's joint terrorism task force have stopped multiple Iran-backed plots Three men were convicted in a plot to kill an Iranian journalist in New York Others charged in plots to assassinate former ambassador John Bolton and then candidate Donald Trump After the U.S. killed the commander of the Iranian military's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a strike in 2020 Besides the potential for threats against physical targets like synagogues Iran could also retaliate through a cyber attack though officials say Iran's near total internet blackout limits those concerns Tom Still so many on alert tonight. All right, Valerie. Thank you. We're back in a moment with the economic impact of the Iran attack here at home Our oil and gas prices about to go off that's next

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23:14So an increase like that could mean gas prices rising anywhere from 30 to 60 cents a gallon And that's on top of normal seasonal increases Now Iran only accounts for about three to four percent of global oil production The real risk here is broader regional disruption Especially if there are issues around that critical straight-off or moose Yeah, and explain to our viewers Ali the straight-off or moose why it's so important Yeah, we have a map here to show you as you can see it's a narrow waterway along Iran's southern coast And about one fifth of the world's oil supply moves through it every single day If the straight is disrupted and global supply tightens that could drive prices higher And it's what markets will be keeping a close eye on in the coming days Tom Ali are thanks to you when we come back tonight a final thought on what may come next stay with us Finally tonight it's been nearly half a century since the revolution that changed Iran and the region forever

24:14When the first supreme leader took power we now find ourselves in its biggest moment of uncertainty since With President Trump announcing Iran's Iatola has been killed It's unclear who will now lead Iran Tensions have run high before from the storming of the U.S. Embassy in 444 excruciating days of the hostage crisis to the U.S. backed a rock war with Iran To the takedown of the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Kusum Soleimani But none of them quite like this in the early hours President Trump appealed to Iranians To act saying quote this will be probably your only chance for generations We do not know what the people of Iran will do and we cannot know what comes next For months they've taken to the streets thousands of them killed even more in prison even children Under the Iatola's reign human rights especially women's rights were trampled on and Iranian Americans today Carrying flags and heavy emotions here on our streets

25:15Change may just be getting underway and our teams will be here and there to cover it every step of the way That's nightly news for this Saturday our coverage continues on our streaming network NBC News now and at NBC News.com. I'm Tom Yamas. We thank you so much for watching tonight and always we're here for you. Good night You Snoring gasping during sleep feeling fatigued wake up to Zeppbound to Zepatide the first and only FDA approved prescription medicine for moderate to severe obstructive sleep Abneia OSA and adults with obesity Zeppound is an injectable prescription medicine that may help adults with moderate to severe obstructive sleep Abneia OSA and obesity to improve their OSA Zeppound should be used with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity Zeppound is approved as a 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 or 15 milligram injection Zeppound contains tersepatide and should not be used with other tersepatide containing products or any GLP1 receptor agonist medicines

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