Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Major combat operations continued in Iran through the weekend while in Congress, key lawmakers are casting different visions for what comes next. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton, celebrated the operation on CNN and called it necessary to deter Iran from long-range missile development.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the Iran conflict?
It's much easier... to kill the archer on the ground than it is to shoot his arrow out of the sky. Cotton said the stage is set for regime change. But ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, a Democrat, called the operation a, quote, war of choice. He said he's seen no intelligence that Iran posed a direct threat to the U.S. before the attack.
Warner told CNN regime change is unlikely.
We have had... very little visibility into what happens next after the Supreme Leader is eliminated.
Both Warner and Cotton expect continued fighting in the coming days. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
The Pentagon today briefed the bipartisan staffs of several national security committees in both chambers of the U.S. Congress. A White House spokesman says the meetings about military actions in Iran lasted more than 90 minutes. The full membership of both chambers of Congress will hear from top cabinet officials on Tuesday of this week.
Iran's state-run news agency says the death toll from an attack on a girls' elementary school has reached 153. NPR's Aya Batraoui has the latest.
The school in the southwestern city of Manab was struck early Saturday as students across Iran were just starting the school week. killing more than half the students there and wounding nearly 100 others who were rushed to hospital. Erna, Iran's state news agency, quoted a spokesman for the education ministry, saying Israel had bombed the school three times.
He says there were more than 260 students in the school at the time. Earlier official reports had indicated 170 students in the school. The report made no mention of teachers or adults possibly killed and wounded. Israel says it's unaware of Israeli military strikes in the area, The U.S. says it's looking into it.
It is the single deadliest strike of the war that began early Saturday with Israeli and later U.S. strikes on Iran that killed the country's supreme leader and other top officials. Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
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