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“President Trump says Iran's supreme leader,”
Ali Hamanay is dead, though Iran hasn't confirmed this. And Pierre's Daniel Kurtzleben reports, Trump also announced that the US will be bombing Iran indefinitely in a Saturday afternoon social media post. In his post, Trump called Hamanay, quote,
one of the most evil people in history, and touted the US intelligence and technology that had led to Hamanay's death. Earlier today, Trump had urged Iranians to quote, "Take over your government."
Trump, in his post, said he hopes
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
and Iranian police will join the people in that. He added that the US bombing campaign, quote, will continue uninterrupted throughout the week or as long as necessary to achieve our objective of peace throughout the Middle East and indeed the world.
In an interview with Iran's state news agency today, Red Kressen has said that more than 200 people have been killed and more than 700 wounded thus far in the strikes. Daniel Kurtzleben and Pierre News
“Iran's been striking Gulf Arab bases hosting U.S. troops”
in response to deadly Israeli and U.S. attacks on the country. If yours are a battalion reports, civilian areas in the Gulf have also been targeted, including Dubai airport, the world's busiest for transit. Dubai's billed as a safe haven, a playground for the rich.
It has no bomb shelters or bunkers, but on Saturday people's phones here beeped with the sound of national emergency alerts, telling them to seek shelter and quote secure buildings due to missile threats.
In a first for this Emirate, fighter jets flew overhead
and interceptors shot down Iranian missiles targeting Dubai throughout the day and past midnight. Dibri fell near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower. The fair mont hotel on Dubai's iconic palm island was also hit, possibly by a drone or debris
catching fire and wounding people. Nearby Abu Dhabi says a person there was killed by fallen debris as upscale parts of that Emirate also saw fiery debris falling. Meanwhile, Kuwait's airport was hit
and a residential tower in Bahrain was struck by an exploding Iranian drone. Abu Tarihi and Pernu's Dubai. Russia's condemning the strikes warning they risked destabilizing the wider Middle East
and Piers Charles Mayan's reports. The Foreign Ministry statement called the U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran a pre-planned and unprovoked act of aggression and demanded an immediate return to diplomatic talks.
Ministry also accused Washington and Tel Aviv of falsely hyping threats surrounding Iran's nuclear program to pursue regime change and war in the Middle East was in danger of plunging into a cycle of uncontrolled escalation. The Russian response was in line with its objections
to recent U.S. military pressure against Kremlin allies in Venezuela, Cuba and elsewhere in the Middle East. It Moscow has thus far stepped back from taking more forceful actions with the vast majority of its military resources
devoted to the war in Ukraine. Charles Mayans and Pernu's.
“Moscow Russia has been a key trade partner for Iran.”
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Library of Congress has found and restored a long-lost film by the pioneering 19th century French filmmaker Georges Malia. And Piers Louis-Velben reports experts are saying
this is likely the first instance of a robot
ever captured in a moving image. The 45-second-long silent film Gugussi-Lutomat or Gugussi-Lutomaton is nearly 130 years old, but the subject matter feels very timely. A child-sized robot clown grows to the size of an adult
and then attacks a human clown with a stick. The human then destroys the machine with a hammer. In an Instagram post, Library of Congress moving image-curator Jason Evans Groth says the film arrived in a box
from a donor in Michigan, Bill McFarland. McFarland's great-grandfather, William Delil, Frisbee, a Pennsylvania potato farmer and schoolteacher, was fascinated by new technologies. - Must have bought a projector and a bunch of films
and decided to drive them around in his buggy to share them with folks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York. - The film is available on the Library of Congress's website, Chloe Valtman and PR News. - Michael Angelo's "The Last Judgment"
is getting spruced up. Restores at the Vatican Museums to removing the chalky white film of salt that's accumulated over the fresco since the last major renovation three decades ago. And they're using a simple technique.
Japanese rice paper that's been dipped in distilled water and then applied to the fresco to remove the film. That film comes from the many visitors to the Vatican Museums. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
