What recent events led to President Trump's address about Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. With a promise to avenge the deaths of three American service members killed in the fight against Iran, President Trump today grieved their loss, calling them American patriots, but predicted more losses are ahead.
Sadly, there will likely be more. Before it ends, that's the way it is.
Five service members were seriously wounded. President Trump spoke earlier in an address posted online. He declared that combat operations will continue and called on Iran's fighting forces to surrender.
I once again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military, police, to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. Won't be pretty.
Trump called Iran's supreme leader, who along with senior Iranian leaders was killed in the Saturday attack by the U.S. and Israel, a wretched, vile man responsible for countless deaths. Iran says it is currently led by its president, the head of the judiciary there, and a representative of the Council of Experts.
Iran's state-run news agency says the death toll from an attack on a girls' elementary school has reached 153, and PR's Aya Batrawi 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.
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