Kerry Kahn

The strikes on Tehran oil depots are some of the first infrastructure targets in the war.

The thick smoke mixed with rain to coat parts of the capital in muddy black water.

Iran's military warned in a post on social media, critical infrastructure strikes would be met with equal measures, and that, quote, if you can tolerate oil at more than $200 a barrel, continue this game.

Iran hit back striking a desalination plant in Bahrain and a residential site in Saudi Arabia, reporting its first deaths since the start of the war.

Gary Kahn, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Israeli residents have spent many hours in bomb shelters today.

In the town of Beit Shemesh was hit with an Iranian strike about 20 miles west of Jerusalem.

Israel's military and foreign minister have been sharing videos from there too.

We see homes and buildings reduced to rubble.

Officials are denouncing Iran for targeting civilians.

And Iran is leveling the same charges against Israel, saying on Saturday it struck an all-girls school, killing at least 165 children in southern Iran.

And that's according to Iranian state media.

Multiple residents in the Iranian capital told NPR directly they heard the explosions early Sunday local time.

Israel's military says it is striking targets belonging to, quote, the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran.

The Israeli Air Force conducted large-scale strikes, it says, to establish aerial superiority and to, quote, pave the path to Tehran.

It published one video showing strikes obliterating four large blocks of buildings as cars whizzed by.

The Iranian state news agency announced the killing of the 86-year-old supreme leader hours earlier.

Iran has vowed to retaliate and has sent missiles and drones to neighboring countries.

Britain's defense minister says Iranian missiles were fired towards its troops in Cyprus and in Bahrain.

Carrie Khan, NPR News, Istanbul.