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From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana.

On Friday afternoon, a former Israeli minister tweeted,

The coming weeks will shape the coming decades in the Middle East.

By the early hours of Saturday morning, a tectonic shift was already underway

as America and Israel launched a war on Iran.

This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces.

The President of the United States of America made it clear that this wasn't about nuclear negotiations.

He was calling for regime change.

To the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don't leave your

home. It's very dangerous outside. bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished,

take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance

for generations.

Within hours, Donald Trump was back on social media,

announcing that the Supreme Leader of Iran was dead.

There is major breaking news at this hour.

Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali-Hamani,

is believed to have been killed in the attack in Iran.

In Iran, despite initial denials from the government,

the news was eventually announced on state TV by an emotional presenter.

The Holy Ayat al-Ahe L'Ahele-Ozma,

Sayed Ali Husseini, Khomeini, in the way of the sun-blown. enter. While some in Iranian the Iranian Iranian's

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