This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with breaking news in our world lead today.

As the U.S. military continues to carry out strikes against Iran, this war appears to be expanding.

Overnight, the United Kingdom confirmed that its base in Cyprus was hit, and video shows a fire at an oil refinery after Saudi Arabia

says it intercepted two Iranian drones. And we are also hearing more from President Trump about

his objectives and next steps, which thus far have not been made abundantly clear. I actually spoke

with the president this morning, one-on-one, a nine-minute phone call.

I asked him if the U.S. is doing more beyond the military assault to help the Iranian people

rest control of their country from the regime. President Trump said, quote, yes, we are indeed,

but right now we want everyone staying inside. It's not safe out there. In fact, the president

claims it's about to get less safe.

He told me, quote, we haven't even started hitting them hard.

The big wave hasn't even happened.

The big one is coming soon.

Now, shortly after our conversation, the world saw a new round of attacks and explosions in Iran,

although it's unclear if that was the big wave the president referenced

to me. After I spoke with the president, he publicly discussed the war, explaining his goals

for the first time since the attack began this weekend, the president saying he wants to destroy

Iran's missile capabilities, annihilate the Iranian Navy, and Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions,

and prevent the country from arming terrorists.

This was our last best chance to strike what we're doing right now and eliminate the intolerable

threats posed by this sick and sinister regime.

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