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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from the BBC Studios in London.
I'm Sean Lay.
It is already past midnight in Iran,
about 15 hours since Israel and the United States began missile strikes against the Iranians.
Both countries say they hope this will be the catalyst for Iranians to bring down the Islamic Republic after 47 years.
Israel claims its strikes have killed the country's supreme leader.
Israel says its air force continues to operate inside Iran.
New explosions were reported across Iran on Saturday evening.
But it's those first attacks on Tehran, whose targets included the leadership compound,
that led Israel in the last couple of hours to confirm rumours,