President Donald J. Trump has told CBS News that he believes today’s attacks by Israel and the United States against Iran, which resulted in the death Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been effective and could create a pathway to diplomacy, stating that negotiations could be, “Much easier now than it was a day ago, obviously - because they are getting beat up badly.”

President Trump further said that “there are some good candidates" to lead Iran in the wake of Khamenei’s death but did not elaborate on who those candidates could be. Adding that Iran’s relation so far has been less than they initially believed, “It's what we expected,” Trump said of the retaliatory response, but he noted that Iran's attacks so far are less than what the U.S. and its allies anticipated prior to the start of Operation Epic Fury.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump launched Saturday morning’s large-scale air campaign on Iran after a weeks-long lobbying effort by an unusual pair of allies in the Middle East - Israel and Saudi Arabia - according to four people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post, with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman making multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued his long-running public campaign for U.S. strikes against Iran.

According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and other military commands utilized Anthropic’s language model, Claude AI, during today’s strike campaign against Iran and the defense of allies in the Middle East, despite President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth’s “blacklist” of Anthropic and its products for use by the military on Friday.

Reports of at least one drone and/or ballistic missile impact at Erbil International Airport in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, with an attack by Iran currently underway against U.S. bases and other sites in Iraq.

Clouds of thick black smoke rise from an impact site at Erbil International Airport in Northern Iraq.

A U.S. Army C-RAM located at Erbil International Airport in Northern Iraq attempts to down one-way attack drones and other aerial threats launched this morning against Northern Iraq by Iran.

Extensive strikes this morning by the Israeli Air Force against the Iranian capital of Tehran, reportedly targeting command-and-control sites of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Red alerts now across Northern and Central Israel, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as another wave of ballistic missiles have been detected having been launched from Iran.

Video published this morning by the Israeli Air Force showing the targeting and destruction of a two awaiting to takeoff F-4 Phantom IIs and an F-5 Tiger II with the Iranian Air Force, during strikes on Tabriz Air Base in the East Azerbaijan Province on Northwestern Iran.

Renewed attacks this morning by Iran on Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

Interceptions seen moments ago over Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, as Iran continues to launch drones and ballistic missiles at Gulf Nations allied to the United States.

Multiple explosions seen and impacts from Iranian drones and ballistic missiles reported at Zayed Port, a commercial deep-water port that serves Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The UAE Ministry of Defense announces that they have so far intercepted 152 ballistic missiles and 506 one-way attack drones launched by Iran since the start of hostilities on Saturday, with debris and impacts resulting in three deaths and fifty-eight injuries, most minor, as air-defenses continue to defend the Emirates.

Former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and several of his close-associates and bodyguards were reportedly killed in a strike yesterday on Tehran by the Israeli Air Force.

The Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement condemning the Iranian attack on the Omanian port city of Duqum as well as the ship in the Gulf of Oman.

The Danish shipping and logistics company Maersk has announced that they will be suspending all future transits through the Strait of Hormuz until further notice, due to the ongoing conflict in the region between Israel, Iran, and the United States.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is alive, stating this morning on state-run television that the Interim Leadership Council is now operational and has assumed constitutional control of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Pezeshkian adds that, “We will continue the path of the Leader with strength. Our Armed Forces are crushing the bases of the enemies.”

Thick black smoke seen rising from the site of Iranian drone and/or missile strike on Camp de la Paix, a French naval base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Iranian state-run media has published footage claiming to show the shoot down of an MQ-9 Reaper with the U.S. Air Force earlier this morning over Southern Iran.

Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency claims that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Arabian Sea with four ballistic missiles launched from bases in Southern Iran.

The U.K. Foreign Office has released updated advisories for Brits currently in Oman, stating that British nationals in the city of Duqm should shelter-in-place and British nationals visiting Salalah should leave as soon as possible if commercial means allow. British residents in Salalah should follow the advice of local authorities, with this following several attacks earlier today on Oman by Iran.