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What recent event escalated tensions between Israel and Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Israeli officials are assessing the damage after Iranian airstrikes last night on two southern cities near Israel's nuclear research center. More than 100 people were wounded. Police say the strikes caused extensive damage to residential buildings. The UN's nuclear agency said there were no reports of damage to Israeli nuclear facilities.
After touring the site today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack shows Iran endangers the entire world.
In the last 48 hours, Iran targeted a civilian area. They're doing that as a mass murder weapon. Luckily, no one was killed, but that's due to luck. Not their intention. Their intention is to murder civilians. Second, they are using, they fired on Jerusalem right next to the holy sites of the three monotheistic faiths. The Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
President Trump said last night Iran has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz, or the U.S. will, in his words, obliterate Iran's power plants. Iran says if that happens, it will target U.S. and Israeli infrastructure in the region. President Trump is sending federal immigration agents to U.S.
airports starting tomorrow as the Transportation Security Administration faces staffing issues from the partial government shutdown. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, is in charge of the ICE deployments to U.S. airports. On Sunday morning, Homan told CNN he doesn't have a finalized plan yet.
It's a work in progress, but we will be at airports tomorrow helping TSA move those lines along.
Homan said he expects ICE agents to guard entries and exits at the nation's busiest airports.
I don't see an ICE agent looking at an x-ray machine because we're not trained in that.
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