Karen Moscow

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Karen, it is risk off across markets with a third day of attacks underway across the Middle East.

Blasts have been heard this morning in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as Iran targets U.S.

interests in the region.

President Trump says the bombing campaign against Iran could last for weeks.

He's calling on the Islamic Republic's remaining leaders to give up.

President Trump spoke in a new social media post late yesterday.

The president told The New York Times he's willing to drop sanctions on Iran if its new leader is pragmatic.

But in an interview with ABC News, he said his favored choices after the death of Iran's supreme leader have all died in the attacks.

Iran's security chief says Tehran won't negotiate with the U.S.

And this morning, Kuwait's army said a number of U.S.

fighter jets had crashed, but all crew members survived.

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says 555 people have been killed in U.S.

and Israeli attacks.

Well, Karen, Iran is looking for a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 86-year-old supreme leader of Iran who was killed in the airstrikes.

Golnar Motavali leads Bloomberg's coverage in Iran.

Bloomberg's Golnar Motivaldi says Iran's constitution does call for an assembly of experts to choose the next supreme leader, but that may not be possible in wartime.

And there is plenty of reaction from world leaders this morning to the military action in Iran, Karen.