Alex Ritson

former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus.

Iran initially responded to the Israel-US attack with a flurry of missile and drone strikes across the Middle East, killing at least two people in Abu Dhabi and another in Tel Aviv, before following up with a new wave after state media confirmed Khamenei's death.

Speaking at the scene of an Iranian retaliatory strike in Tel Aviv, Israel's President Isaac Herzog had this to say.

I spoke to the BBC's John Donison, who's at the scene of that strike.

The Israelis must have had very good intelligence, incredible intelligence, to target the Iranian leadership so precisely.

What have you heard?

What do Israelis make of this?

Do they welcome the attacks on Iran, or are they worried about where this could go?

John Donison in Tel Aviv.

Still to come in this podcast, we take a look at the impact the US and Israeli strikes and Iran's retaliation have had in Washington and across the Middle East.

This is the Global News Podcast.

As we mentioned earlier, Iran has launched strikes across the Gulf.

Many countries there host US military bases.

The BBC's Barbara Platt-Archer is in Qatar.

I asked her how Iran's neighbours have reacted to these attacks.

But first, she gave me the latest on the Iranian strikes in the Qatari capital, Doha.

Could these Iranian attacks actually provoke a response from the Gulf states?

Yeah, you mentioned the impact on trade and tourism.

If this continues, not least, of course, the Straits of Hormuz.

The impact of that could be huge.