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What recent military actions are taking place involving Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. As blasts in and around Iran continue into a third day, President Trump is saying combat operations targeting Iran could go on for four or five weeks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told reporters on Capitol Hill that the military engagement initiated Saturday by the U.S. and Israel over Iran is far from over.
I'm not going to give away the details of our tactical efforts, but the hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now. Someone was screaming, how long will it take? I don't know how long it'll take. We have objectives. We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives, and we will achieve those objectives.
The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation. Will the operation include ground forces? Rubio says President Trump has ruled nothing out in a military operation meant to obliterate Iran's complete ballistic missile capabilities, their attract drones, and their navy. The U.S.
embassy in Riyadh has been attacked by two Iranian drones, resulting in a fire and minor damage to the building. That's according to the Saudi Ministry of Defense. The U.S. embassy has issued a shelter-in-place alert US personnel in Saudi Arabia. US Central Command has confirmed there have been six US casualties in combat with Iran.
NPR's Quill Lawrence reports hundreds of Iranians are believed to have been killed. CENTCOM posted on social media that additional U.S. service members have been killed in action and that the remains of two previously unaccounted-for American troops were recovered from a facility hit during the first hours of the war.
Earlier, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had confirmed that one of those wounded in an attack on a fortified operations center on a U.S. base in Kuwait had later died from those injuries. The Pentagon does not release the names of troops killed in action until 24 hours after next of kin are notified. Both Hegseth and President Trump have said they expect more U.S.
casualties before the operation stops. Trump has been speaking to several media outlets, but given various answers about how long combat might continue. Quill Lawrence, NPR News. Law enforcement in Austin, Texas, say they still haven't identified a motive for the shooting that left two dead and more than a dozen injured at a popular bar on Sunday morning.
Andrew Weber from member station KUT reports. Police fatally shot Ndiaga Diagne after he allegedly fired indiscriminately into an Austin bar. Police said Diagne did have a shirt featuring pro-Iranian messaging, but FBI special agent in charge Alex Duran said investigators are still sifting through evidence.
We want to make sure that we have our facts 100% correct because that's what we owe to the victims, right? That's what you guys want answers for, but more importantly, we owe that to the victims and their families. Fourteen people were injured in the shooting. Two college students died. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Weber in Austin. This is NPR News in Washington.
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