Good evening from the newsroom. We begin tonight with American airstrikes on Iran,

which the president just moments ago told a Fox correspondent will stop shortly.

He said again, according to Fox, that Iran asked him to stop bombing. But he reportedly added,

we'll bomb the S out of them tomorrow night, unquote, if Tehran does not sign a U.S. peace proposal.

Iranian state media, citing a senior official, denies that Tehran contacted the president.

As for the strikes themselves, they came as no surprise.

The president this morning said to expect them.

And this afternoon at SentCon headquarters, Defense Secretary Hegeseth, was explicit.

Sentcom, Central Command, will be busy tonight because President Trump said we will be hitting

Iran hard and we will be.

Because Iran has a chance to make a good deal, a great deal, to codify what they said they've

been willing to do and they haven't been willing to do it.

So as President Trump said, they've been tap, tap, tap, tapping.

You can see when someone's trying to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap on a deal.

Instead, they're going to have tap, tap, tap, tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran from the United States of America.

Just moments after he said that, the first report started coming in from Iranian media of air

defense activity in Tehran explosions being heard elsewhere in the country.

And about a half hour later, CENTCOM made the announcement online saying, quote, U.S.

Central Command Forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5.15 p.m. ET against multiple

targets in Iran at the Commander-in-Chief's direction. The strikes are in response to Iran's

unwarranted and continued aggression. We do not yet know what precisely is being hit, nor the

size and scope of the operation, but Iranian media is reporting explosions in Kessam,

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