Alex Ritson

We begin in Iran.

After a week of pounding the Islamic Republic's military machine and security apparatus, the United States and Israel are now bombing one of Iran's biggest sources of revenue, oil.

Huge fireballs which reached into the night sky were seen across Tehran when an oil depot was hit by airstrikes.

It's the first reported attack on Iran's oil infrastructure since the start of the war.

Israel said the depot was being used by the military.

Earlier, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran would be attacked with all of our force and vowed to wipe out the country's leaders in order to safeguard the Jewish state.

As for the next step in Iran, we have a well-organized plan, with many surprises, to destabilize the regime and enable change.

In the US, President Trump was at Dover Air Force Base in the state of Delaware for the return of six American service members who were killed in a drone strike.

Wearing a white USA baseball cap, he saluted the flag-draped cases that contained the bodies.

I asked our Washington correspondent Bernd de Boosman how Americans will react to this sombre ceremony.

It's still very early days in the conflict, and this is certainly a possibility that Trump had mentioned from the outset that the U.S.

would very likely take casualties.

And in the grand scheme of things, as far as military operations go, those casualties have still been light.

But today and watching the transfer cases, as they're called them, of the fallen being transported to Dover,

and being paraded in front of the president and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and General Dan Kaine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

I think it really brings home to Americans that this is not necessarily just some faraway conflict, but this is something that has very real consequences for Americans.

There are, after all, now six families across the country whose loved ones won't be coming home this year.

And I think if this war drags on over time and those casualties begin to mount, then you begin to see a lot more public conversation about this.

This is a scene that would have been very familiar to Americans of my generation, for example, who grew up in the era of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But this is something that we haven't seen as much recently, although there have been several other incidents recently.