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"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.

Air strikes in Iran are continuing this weekend.

Israel's military says its planes attacked an oil storage facility in Tehran on Saturday

setting it on fire.

It appears to be the first time a civil industrial facility has been targeted in the war.

In Washington, concerns from some members of Congress continue, over-possible escalation of the fighting, in part because President Trump is refusing to dismiss the idea of U.S. troops on the ground in Iran." Trump made his comments to reporters on board Air Force One on Saturday. Residents of Tehran have more concerns than the bombing the city is currently seeing as

NPR's Roushirlak reports, fears are also mounting for the safety of thousands of detainees held in an notorious prison there. "Chalina Sadalahi says her brother, Alia Sadalahi was detained about a month ago from his home and taken to Iran's Evan Prison, notorious for its brutal treatment of inmates. Alia Sadalahi is an internationally recognised poet and over a hundred authors, including

Margaret Atwood, have penned a joint letter calling for his release." "Ah, by the time I'm on Alia Sadalahi."

"Chalina Sadalahi, who lives in exile in Germany, says her brother was due to be released

on bail the day the U.S. and his ready bombardment began. They haven't heard from him since.

Her sources inside Iran have told her that he and other prisoners have been moved first

to an intelligence complex and then an army base. All places she fears a likely targets of U.S. and his ready strikes, Roushirlak and Pion used Turkey near the border with Iran." Officials say at least six people are dead and a number of others are injured after tornadoes tore through the Midwest, NPR's fondly stuster as more.

In Michigan, the Branch County Sheriff's Office on Friday said three people have been killed and 12 people were injured because of a tornado. And in Cass County, officials say one person was killed and several people were injured. A 12-year-old boy is among the dead. And in Oklahoma officials in Bech say two people have also died.

The National Weather Service says at least six tornadoes touched down across both states

on Friday. Local and state of emergencies have been declared in Oklahoma in Michigan because of the tornadoes. Officials say they are continuing to assess damage from the tornadoes and are searching through debris, chandelys duster and PR news. A federal judge has ruled that Carrie Lakes role at the head of the U.S. agency for global

media was done without legal authority. The ruling Saturday evening declares void all actions that she took in that role that includes the mass layoffs forced on the agency. The agency is the parent of several U.S. funded international radio networks, including the voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia.

You're listening to NPR news. In Peru, a bombing in the early hours of Saturday morning at a nightclub has injured 33 people. John Bartlett reports from Chile. The explosion hit the Dolly Nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru's northern

coast. It is the fifth bombing in the region in less than a week, at least five of the injured in a serious condition and some have undergone surgery to amputate limbs. The same nightclub had been attacked with a tear-goth canister two weeks ago during Valentine's Day celebrations.

Peru's national police force found a violent criminal group which operates in the area responsible for that attack. For NPR news, I'm John Bartlett in Santiago. Heavy rains have caused flooding and the canyon capital of Nairobi this weekend, officials say at least 25 people have died in the flooding.

Some motorists were stranded for hours by the floodwaters and had to be rescued by the country's military. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise as search and rescue operations continue. A roadside bomb that targeted a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan has killed four people and injured as many as two dozen others.

The dead included two policemen as well as two civilians. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, but officials say the Pakistani Taliban is suspected to have been involved with it. The Arnold Palmer Golf Invitation was suspended for an hour a Saturday because of rain that the laymen that turned them at leader Daniel Burger faces a 35-foot eagle put when

play resumes on Sunday.

Actually, Bontia sits three strokes back in second, while Colin Morakawa, SEP Strucker

and Cameron Young currently sit at four strokes off the pace. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.

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