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Hello to you.
Welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London this Saturday.
I'm Sean Lay.
It was sometime before nine on Saturday morning in Iran that the sirens first sounded warning that an attack was underway.
Cities across the West, Central and Southern Iran have reportedly been the target of aerial attacks.
Israel announced what it called a preemptive strike on Iran.
It did not say what it was preempting.
Just over an hour after the assault began,