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Residents in Dubai and Abu Dhabi have reported hearing more blasts this morning as hostilities in the Middle East show no signs of easing. US President Donald Trump says that the American bombing campaign against Iran... will continue until its objectives are achieved. In a video posted on social media, Trump said that the US and Israel had struck hundreds of targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities and air defences. He also confirmed the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and called on the country's leaders to capitulate as he outlined the reasons for the US military intervention.
We're undertaking this massive operation not merely to ensure security for our own time and place, but for our children and their children, just as our ancestors have done for us many, many years ago. This is the duty and the burden of a free people. These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats.
President Trump's comments came as Iran sent waves of missiles at targets in multiple countries that host U.S. military bases.
Projectiles struck buildings and killed civilians in Israel, while defences in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait continue to intercept incoming fire. Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arauchi defended the regime's strikes.
We are defending ourselves and we have every right, every legitimate right to defend ourselves. What the United States is doing is an act of aggression. What we are doing is the act of self-defense. There are huge differences between these two.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking there as Trump said in a brief interview with the New York Times on Sunday that the assault on Iran could last for four or five weeks. Officials in Tehran yesterday said the death toll in the country was already over 200, with that figure expected to rise significantly.
As the US and Israeli bombing of Iran continues, President Trump has told ABC that his preferred candidates to lead the state were killed in the initial attack. The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has thrown the country's future leadership into question. Khamenei did not publicly designate a successor. Until one is appointed, a council compromising the president and two other senior figures is carrying out the leader's duties. Wendy Sherman, former US Deputy Secretary of State, says Iran's regime will be extremely hard to dislodge.
Iran has many layers. It has succession plans. It will have a new leader. It will not splinter easily. Iran's regime is quite institutionalized. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is quite fierce. And yes, there will be tremendous harm. But let's remember the Iraq War went on for eight years. So Iran does not give up easily. It, in fact, has an entire culture of resistance.
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