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Tonight, Donald Trump says Iran's Supreme Leader is dead as fears grow for all out war in the Middle East.

US And Israeli airstrikes have targeted operations in Iran and it's called epic fury.

The President tells the Iranian people now is the time to overthrow the regime.

When we are finished, take over your government.

Iran has retaliated, hitting many countries in the Gulf, including their residential buildings.

This was the scene in Dubai tonight as a large hotel was struck.

There are concerns for people living in and visiting the whole area.

And this is the scene live right now in Tel Aviv, which has continued to be hit by Iranian missiles.

Tonight, we're here to tell you all we know about the situation and what it might mean after a momentous day for the Middle east and the world.

Hello to you from Tel Aviv Region on edge tonight over fears of a wider Middle east war.

In the last hour, Donald Trump says Iran's Supreme Leader is dead if confirmed.

It is a seismic moment for this whole area.

So far, Iran has rejected the claims that he has been killed.

On what is a dramatic day with Israel and America launching a wave of airstrikes on targets right across Iran.

Several sites were hit in what Donald Trump has described as a successful mission.

The Iranians have, however, hit back themselves with force right across the region.

Plumes of smoke were seen in an area of Bahrain near the headquarters of the U.S.

An Air base in Doha was also hit where there is a significant US Military presence.

And this missile was captured on camera over Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Thousands, including tourists, have been caught up in the strikes.

We'll have full coverage and assess what the implications could be for the Middle East.

But first, Jeremy Bowen, our international editor, has the very latest on what's been going on today.

This was Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the tomb of his predecessor at the end of January.

If Israel has killed him, as Donald Trump says, the Islamic regime in Iran will have taken a huge blow.

One analyst called him the super glue keeping the system together.

Israel and the US Will hope that if he is dead, the regime will come unstuck.

Benjamin Netanyahu said he was killed in a powerful strike on his compound in Tehran.

For three and a half decades, this tyrant dispatched terrorism across the world, made his own people miserable, and

worked constantly and tirelessly on a program to annihilate the state of Israel.

And there are many signs that this tyrant is also no longer.

Satellite images show the destruction of the compound used by the Supreme Leader in Tehran.

The Iranians say he was not there when it was attacked and told ABC News in America that he was safe and sound.

The Americans believe that this time their raw power can impose regime change on an enemy without creating a disaster.

The removal of Iraq's Saddam Hussein in 2003 led to a catastrophe.

Long years of war that incubated jihadist extremist movements that still exists.

The Americans released video of their targets with Israel.

They believe the economic and political weakness of the Islamic regime in Iran gives them an opportunity to strike that they have to take.

Israel and the US went back to war with Iran just after breakfast time in Tehran.

Hitting the capital and sites across the country.

It's hard to get information about what's happening there.

Video of an attack on a school in southern Iran is circulating.

Iranian state TV was reporting 85 killed.

This is a dangerous moment with unpredictable consequences in the world's most turbulent region.

Israel said the whole operation is a preemptive attack without producing evidence of an imminent threat.

War is political and this is a war of choice aimed at changing the regime.

In Iran, Iran tried to deliver on its threat of a devastating response aimed at the extensive network of US bases in the Gulf.

In Dubai, tourists looking for winter sun had a nasty reminder of the region's realities.

Close by in Bahrain, this appears to be a strike aimed at the big US Naval base.

Iran says it will use more powerful missiles than the ones it fired in last summer's war.

Iran will hope that as the days pass, the US and Israel will start running out of defensive missiles.

In Tehran, regime supporters rallied around the flag.

It would take more than killing the Supreme Leader to destroy the regime.

It has a complex political system underpinned by ideology, corruption and the ruthless use of force against dissent.

In January, big protests against the regime and the economic crisis were crushed with live bullets that killed thousands of people.

Donald Trump promised to protect them and seems to believe that the regime will fall if they try again after America and and Israel's onslaught.

At dusk, the Fairmont Hotel on Dubai's Palm was hit.

It isn't clear if it was targeted or if this was caused by missile debris from an interception.

Iran has a big arsenal of accurate short range missiles.

Iran's leaders will now be calculating how to ride out the war, how to survive and how to manage its Consequences.

Well, tonight, the United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss today's extraordinary events.

And these are live pictures from the session in New York.

The Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, warned that today's military action risks triggering uncontrollable consequences for the Middle East.

Well, this evening, Donald Trump said he believes a large number of Iran's leaders have also been killed.

The president said the operation has been a success.

Let's go live to Sarah Smith, who's at the White House for us tonight.

Sarah, the president seems happy with today's events.

He has dealt a blow to the Iranian regime, taken out some of the leadership and he says, taken out the supreme Leader, too.

Yeah, he announced that on his Truth Social social media site.

And when he said that Ayatollah Khamenei had been killed, he described him as one of the most evil people in history and then went on to say this is now the single greatest chance for Iranians to take back their country.

And he's also been talking on the phone to a number of American journalists, describing the operation so far as a tremendous success and saying he believes that quite a large proportion of the Iranian leadership have now been killed.

The White House has released photos of President Trump monitoring operations in a specially constructed facility in Mar a Lago.

Alongside him are the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio and his chief of staff, Susie wiles.

Vice President J.D. vance is seen in the White House Situation Room in Washington.

A short time ago, Donald Trump posted a video on social media at 2:30 in the morning to inform the American people he had launched a massive attack on Iran.

Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.

Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and

Just hours earlier, he was campaigning in Texas in a hamburger joint, giving no hint of the planned assault.

I'm going to get some stuff for Air Force One and I'm going to get the hell out of here.

Not much later, he was describing how he plans to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon.

We are going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground.

Last year, President Trump addressed thousands of American troops stationed in the Middle east, telling them his priority is to end conflicts, not start them.

Now he's warning of casualties and fatalities.

The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties.