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Tonight America attacks Iran President Trump announcing its supreme leader Ayatollah Hamani has been killed as Iran retaliates across the region

The U.S. launching strikes with Israel earlier today targeting Iran's top leaders

New 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

But 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

Iran 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

Our 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

This 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

Tonight 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

And 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

I 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

Tom 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

Well 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

They'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

Like 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

Now 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

After 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

We 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

Tom

Garrett Hake at the White House Garrett. Thank you for much more on the latest in Iran

Watch meet the press with Kristen Welker tomorrow right here on NBC still ahead tonight

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Back now with those strikes across the Middle East today putting law enforcement here at home on alert for potential retaliatory strikes and protesters taking to the streets

Valley Castro is tracking it all from New York City

Tonight protests across the U.S. against strikes in Iran as law enforcement is on alert working with intelligence agencies to thwart any potential threats to the United States

And stepping up patrols at sensitive areas like houses of worship and diplomatic sites

I think we should absolutely be worried about retaliation New York City police coordinating across agencies out of an abundance of caution

Adding a visible presence outside the Israeli consulate and Iranian mission to the UN

Three senior law enforcement officials say there are no plots or specific threats that U.S. counterterrorism officials are tracking

But 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

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We're back now with more in the US and Israeli attack on Iran and what the unfolding conflict in the Middle East

Could mean for gas prices here at home for that we turn out at NBC News business and economy reporter Ali Canal

So Ali what can we expect?

Tom analysts tell me oil prices are likely to rise when markets reopen send a evening

Depending on how the conflict escalates

They say crude could jump as much as 15 to $20 a barrel

Typically every one dollar move in oil translates to about two to three cents per gallon

So 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

When 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

Change 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

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