Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
U.S. Sailors and Marines have arrived in the Middle East
as Iranian officials report airstrikes hit several areas overnight.
NPR's Emily Fang reports Tehran is now threatening to target American universities in the region
after a prominent Iranian campus was bombed over the weekend.
The USS Tripoli, carrying 3,500 U.S. Marines and sailors,
has arrived in the region, though the U.S. Military will not say where and how they might be deployed.
Social media videos from across Iran showed strikes hitting all over the country,
and Israel's military said it had completed what it called a wide-scale wave of strikes
targeting weapons production and storage sites in Iran.
Iran claimed U.S.
And Israeli strikes hit a Tehran university.
And in a statement in Iranian media, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps
threatened American campuses in the Middle East in retaliation.
Iran continues to fire drones and missiles at Middle Eastern countries with Kuwait,
saying it was intercepting missile and drone attacks early Sunday.
Emily Fang, NPR News, Van, Turkey.
Three Lebanese journalists covering the invasion of their country's south have been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Israel is accusing one of them of being a Hezbollah militant but has not provided evidence.
NPR's Lauren Frere reports.