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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is believed to have moved to a more secure location as tension rose with the U.S.
Iran and neighboring Iraq have closed their airspace.
In Tehran, one woman told NPR she was hearing the sounds of fighter jets and missiles exploding.
She said people had not expected the attack and were panicking trying to get to safety.
The Omani mediator in talks this week between Iran and the U.S.
had said the two sides had made good progress, but U.S.
President Donald Trump expressed dissatisfaction with the talks.
Oman's foreign minister, Badr al-Bosaydi, said there had been significant progress in the two negotiating sessions he mediated on Thursday.
The Omani diplomat also said technical-level talks would take place next week in Vienna, where the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was also at the talks, is based.
The position of the two sides has seemed far apart.
President Trump insists that Iran end its nuclear program.
and give up long-range ballistic missiles.
Iran insists it has a right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and won't give up the conventional weapons.
The foreign minister of Oman this morning is relaying Iranian counter-proposals to President Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Last night, the Omani mediator met with Iran's foreign minister.
Iran has said it sees areas of agreement on the nuclear issue, but it has also made clear that it will not discuss giving up ballistic weapons as President Trump has demanded.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters last night that that issue needed to be on the table.