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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Skiyavone. The U.S. military death toll from the fighting in Iran now stands at six, and the Iranian Red Crescent reports more than 500 people have died in the region as blasts in the surrounding area continue into a third day. |
| 0:17.9 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told reporters on Capitol Hill, |
| 0:22.1 | the military engagement initiated Saturday by the U.S. and Israel over Iran is far from over. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm not going to give away the details of our tactical efforts, but the hardest hits are yet to |
| 0:32.8 | come from the U.S. military. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now. |
| 0:38.1 | Someone was screaming, how long will it take? I don't know how long it'll take. We have objectives. |
| 0:41.6 | We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives, and we will achieve those |
| 0:45.2 | objectives. The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation. |
| 0:49.6 | Will the operation include ground forces? Rubio says President Trump has ruled nothing out in a military |
| 0:55.7 | operation meant to obliterate Iran's complete ballistic missile capabilities, their attack |
| 1:01.0 | drones, and their Navy. President Trump has forecast the fighting will last four to five weeks. |
| 1:06.2 | His latest remarks coming during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, NPR's deepest |
| 1:11.5 | Chivaram tells us the president wants Americans to know why the assault was launched. |
| 1:16.1 | Trump says there were, quote, grave threats posed to America in the Iranian regime. |
| 1:21.3 | He says the U.S. warned Iran not to rebuild their nuclear capabilities and that Iran didn't |
| 1:26.2 | listen to those warnings. |
| 1:32.2 | Trump also says that Iran would have soon had missiles that were capable of hitting the U.S. An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable |
| 1:37.9 | threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people, our country itself. |
| 1:46.1 | Trump claims the strike on Iran was the administration's, quote, last best chance at keeping |
| 1:51.3 | Iran's nuclear capabilities in check and preventing Iran from investing in terror groups. |
| 1:57.1 | Deepa Shiverum and PR News. |
| 1:59.4 | More than half a billion dollars in bets were placed on the site Polymarket, tied to the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. |
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