00:00Smoldering buildings could be seen in residential neighborhoods in Iran's capital of Tehran
00:08on Friday morning, after an evening of Israeli strikes across the country.
00:13Iranian media and witnesses reported explosions, including at the country's main uranium enrichment
00:20facility at Natanz.
00:22Iranian state television reported that Hossein Salami, the chief of the elite Revolutionary
00:28Guards Corps, had been killed and the unit's headquarters in Tehran had been hit.
00:33Several children had been killed in a strike on a residential area in the capital.
00:38Israel said it targeted Iranian scientists working on a nuclear bomb, its ballistic missile
00:43program and its Natanz uranium enrichment facility in an operation that would continue for days.
00:50U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Israel's strikes against Iran a unilateral
00:57action and said Washington was not involved.
01:01Tensions had been building as President Donald Trump's efforts to reach a nuclear deal with
01:06Iran appear to be deadlocked.
01:08U.S. and Iranian officials were scheduled to hold a sixth round of talks on Tehran's escalating
01:14uranium enrichment program in Oman on Sunday.
01:18The Revolutionary Guards warned that Israel will pay a heavy price for its attack on Iran,
01:23and there will be a decisive retaliation against its sworn enemies.
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