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and the people who fought for answers, follow "Safe to Drink" wherever you're listening. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone. Major combat operations continued in Iran through the weekend while in Congress,
“key lawmakers are casting different visions for what comes next,”
and PR's Lou Garrett reports. Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton, celebrated the operation on CNN and called it necessary to deter Iran from long-range missile development. "It's much easier to kill the archer on the ground than it is to shoot his arrow out of the sky."
Cotton said the stage is set for regime change, but ranking member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee Mark Warner, a Democrat, called the operation "war of choice."
He said he seen no intelligence that Iran posed a direct threat to the U.S. before the attack. Warner told CNN regime change is unlikely. "We have had a very little visibility, and what happens next after this prem leader is eliminated." Both Warner and Cotton expect continued fighting in the coming days.
Luke Garrett and PR News, Washington.
“"The Pentagon today briefed the bipartisan staffs of several national security committees and”
both chambers of the U.S. Congress, a White House spokesman says the meetings about military actions in Iran lasted more than 90 minutes. The full membership of both chambers of Congress will hear from top cabinet officials on Tuesday of this week." Around state-run news agency says the death toll from an attack on a girl's elementary school
has reached 153 and PR's Iowa, Troy, has the latest to school in the southwestern city of Minabua, struck early Saturday as students across Iran were just starting the school week, killing more than half the students there and wounding nearly 100 others who were rushed to hospital. Erna, Iran state news agency quoted a spokesman for the education ministry saying Israel had bombed the school three times.
He says there were more than 260 students in the school at the time. Earlier official reports had indicated 170 students in the school.
“The report made no mention of teachers or adults possibly killed and wounded.”
Israel says it's unaware of Israeli military strikes in the area. The U.S. says it's looking into it. It is the single deadliest strike of the war that began early Saturday with Israeli and later U.S. strikes on Iran that killed the countries supreme leader and other top officials. A. Abatrawi and Pernus, Dubai.
Leaders in the region are calling on the United States, Israel and Iran to stand down. Jerry Baskar and has details from neighboring Istanbul. Turkish president, Rachel Tive Erdogan, spoke with his counterparts in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. As the countries pushed the U.S. Israel and Iran to find a diplomatic solution. Erdogan said the conflict risks dragging the region into a ring of fire.
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party also spoke out against the war, saying that only the Iranian people should decide the future of their country. A religious solidarity group organized protests in Istanbul calling for an end to the U.S. imperialism. Franco-News, I'm Jerry Baskar, Istanbul. This is NPR. One month ago, Arizona law enforcement learned that Nancy Guthrie was likely taken from her home against
her will. L.M. Boyd has the latest on how the investigation has unfolded when family reported that the mother of today's show Savannah Guthrie was missing. Pima County investigators say Nancy Guthrie left behind her keys while it in phone and that traces of her blood were found at her Tucson area home. For much of February, reporters and online content creators crowded the neighborhood, but since county officials imposed a temporary
street parking ban near the home, neighbors say it has grown quieter. Authorities continue to ask residents for surveillance video and tips. The most significant development has been the recovery of security footage that shows an unidentified masked and armed person approaching Guthrie's doorstep the morning she disappeared. Savannah Guthrie says the family is offering a $1
million reward for information leading to her recovery. For NPR News, I'm L.M. Boyd in Tucson.
Energy analysts say fighting in the Middle East could mean higher prices for crude oil and gasoline, even as nations that are part of the OPEC plus oil cartel announced today that they will boost production of crude oil. Travel is a mess for hundreds of thousands of people across the Middle East and the aftermath of US is really struck on Iran and retaliatory attacks. Israel Qatar, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain have all closed their airspace to
commercial flights forcing the shutdown of major hub airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha close to 3,000 flights have been canceled by airlines in the region. I'm Louise Givone and PR News, Washington. On the latest episode of sources and methods and peers national security podcast,
The US and Israel have attacked Iran.
telling Iranians, quote, "When we are finished, take over your government." We break down the most important questions about what happens next. I'm Mary Louise Kelly, listen now to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you can your podcasts.
