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Ever since the United States and Israel launched their assault on Iran a week ago,

the Trump administration has been accused of sending conflicting signals about its war aims.

Today it was a turn of the Iranians to convey mixed messages.

President Massoud Peseshkian apologized to neighbouring states for striking their territory,

just as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, or IRGC, said they had hit an American air base in the United Arab Emirates and another in Bahrain.

Blast were also heard in Qatar, while Saudi Arabia said a ballistic missile fell near Prince Sultan airbase.

The Iranian president, a relative moderate, said that Iran's interim leadership council had approved a suspension of attacks against neighbouring countries, unless that is, they were used to attack Iran.

But Iran's parliamentary speaker warned any nations that host U.S. bases will not enjoy peace.

Well, Joe Inwood has been following events on day eight of this conflict.

This, so the Americans and the Israelis say, is the sound of the destruction of a significant part of Iran's air force.

Last night, burning planes gave the night sky an orange glow as fires raged at one of Iran's main airports.

Israel claims it destroyed 16 planes belonging to the elite Al-Quds Air Force at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.

It was another night of the increased force President Trump has threatened.

It's been amazing. We've knocked out 42 Navy ships, some of them very large in three days.

That was the end of the Navy. We knocked out their Air Force. We knocked out their communications

and all telecommunications is gone. I don't know how they communicate, but I guess they

will figure something out. It's not working out too well.

And they're bad people. They're just bad people.

In the morning, his Iranian counterpart seemed to strike a more conciliatory tone.

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