Hi there, everyone. It's now 5 o'clock in New York, and we are back with special breaking news coverage of the U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran.

Donald Trump just moments ago posted on true social that Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, is dead.

Quote, Kamani is one of the most evil people in history.

He is dead.

The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, 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, Donald Trump wrote.

Iran has continued to deny the report that the Ayatollah has

been killed, telling MS now that the Ayatollah is, quote, safe and sound. The death toll from the

strikes has reached 200 people, including more than 60 children, killed during the strikes on a

girl's school inside Iran. 700 people have been injured.

That is according to the Iranian Red Crescent.

Iran has launched a wave of retaliatory strikes throughout the region,

including on Israel and several U.S. military bases.

Just in the last hour, we learned of a strike on a building in Tel Aviv.

This hour, we're watching the ongoing UN Security Council

emergency meeting, which was convened after the strikes, which were conducted without authorization

from the UN or the United States Congress. The political backlash in the United States against

the strikes has been swift and bipartisan, with protests being held in more than 70 cities across the

country, an additional protest plan for tomorrow. While as Bonn and I were discussing, it has

royal Donald Trump's political coalition, many of whom believe Donald Trump when he promised

no more military interventions. Donald Trump repeatedly called, though, for regime change in Iran and has

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