Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
The Trump administration says U.S.
military operations against Iran have severely crippled the country's military capabilities.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says American strikes have pushed Iran's land and naval power to the brink of collapse.
We have totally annihilated the Iranian regime's navy.
We've wiped out nearly almost all of their ballistic missile threat.
In fact, ballistic missile attacks from Iran right now are down 90 percent.
Their drone capabilities are down 95 percent.
We have sunk more than 65 of their naval ships.
We've hit more than 6000 targets across the country.
And it's a very big country.
And we're going to continue this mission until all of the objectives that President Trump and the secretary.
of war have laid out are fully accomplished.
New missile and drone attacks are being reported across the Gulf region after Iran threatened to expand its military campaign.
The BBC's Azadeh Mishiri reports Tehran is also calling for evacuations at three major ports in the United Arab Emirates.
It's a reminder that the impact is very much being felt here in a region that feels it's unjustly been pulled into this war.
In fact, overnight,
authorities here in Dubai confirmed that their air defense systems had intercepted attacks in two major neighborhoods here where explosions had been heard.
There's also been this rare statement from a presidential advisor that has said that it has a right to defense against what it called an imposed terrorist aggression,
but that it's still...