Name: U.S. and Israel expand war with Iran with joint air, sea, and land operations as Tehran hits back
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New strikes across Tehran tonight as the U. S.

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Israeli war on Iran is expanding, systematically destroying Iran's military, blowing up its missiles and killing its leaders.

President Trump saying it could last four to five weeks.

We're already substantially ahead of our time projections.

The Pentagon today announcing it's sending more troops and fighter jets to join the operation which President Trump launched at 3:38pm on Friday.

The President directed and I quote, operation Epic Fury is approved.

But the war is also spreading to new countries with new risks.

In Saudi Arabia, drones targeting the US Embassy in the capital Riyadh.

A Saudi official telling NBC News there were no injuries.

In Kuwait, three US Fighter jets were shot down and seen plummeting from the sky.

The Pentagon said it was friendly fire, that the jets were hit by Kuwaiti missile defense systems.

In this video, you can see a parachute on the ground and what appears to be an American pilot in the back of an SUV looking healthy but rattled.

As the Pentagon announced at least six American service members have have been killed.

The Pentagon saying it now has total air superiority over Iran, allowing the US to hunt down the missile launchers Iran is using to carry out attacks, including against Israel where an Iranian missile made it through air defenses.

Prime Minister Netanyahu touring a town where nine Israelis were killed by another Iranian strike.

Iran is not just hitting Israel, but multiple Arab countries.

Iranian fighter jets attacked Qatar but were shot down, according to the Qatari military in Bahrain.

Iranian drones hitting residential high rise buildings in Kuwait.

The international airport damaged by an Iranian drone strike.

And tonight, Iran targeting Saudi Arabia with damage seen in these oil fields.

Over the past month, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Mohammed bin Salman has urged President Trump to attack Iran, according to four people familiar with the matter.

And we've learned the US And Israeli strikes were launched on Saturday because intelligence showed Iran's supreme leader would be at a meeting of senior officials that morning.

According to two sources briefed on the matter.

In addition to ayatollah Khamenei, the US says 49 leaders from the Iranian regime have been killed.

Iran has not confirmed all of the deaths.

We also projected four weeks to terminate the military leadership and as you know, that was done in about an hour.

So we're ahead of schedule there by a lot.

While inside Iran, officials say a girls school was hit this weekend with dozens killed.

The US Says it's investigating there have been demonstrations supporting the Iranian regime, but

also Iranians celebrating the death of the ayatollah.

His government deeply unpopular among many Iranians all.

As President Trump laid out the objectives of the US Mission.

We're destroying Iran's missile capabilities and you see that happening on an hourly basis.

We've knocked out already 10 ships there at the bottom of the sea.

Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon.

And finally, we are ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.

President Trump saying Iran walked away from negotiations, but

a senior negotiator directly involved tells NBC News talks were making progress and were scheduled to resume.

For now, no U.S. ground troops appear to be involved, although the Pentagon is not ruling them out.

We'll go as far as we need to go to advanced American interests, but

You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years.

While Secretary of State Rubio suggesting this operation is about to intensify, the hardest hits are yet to come from the US Military.

Richard and his team join us live tonight from a bombed out building there in Tel Aviv.

And Richard, Israel and U.S. forces still very much on alert tonight as Iran continues to fire.

And now there's a new warning tonight from the State Department.

This building was hit by an Iranian missile.

And you can see that even with the risk, even with ongoing attacks against this city, construction crews are here clearing away debris.

And the State Department just a short while ago issued a warning to American citizens to evacuate from 14 countries in the Middle east, including Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Richard Engle with that new warning tonight.

And we're learning more about how this military operation unfolded and where it's going from here.

Our senior national security correspondent Courtney Kuby joins us live now.

And Courtney, you have details about President Trump giving the military the final order to proceed.

The first wave of strikes began with Tomahawks fired from Navy ships and long range precision munitions fired from aircraft outside Iran, taking out air defenses and paving the way for manned aircraft.

Next up, B1 and B2 bombers began flying in, striking hardened underground missile sites and vertical silos with huge bombs to penetrate deep underground.

President Trump saying a Big wave is still to come.

And while officials won't say, speculate, one possibility remains the nuclear program, which so far has not been struck.

official said the goal of the operation is to hit hard and overwhelm Iran as quickly as possible, ideally in weeks, not months.

Now to the White House, where the Trump administration is defending its decision to attack Iran amid Democratic criticism.

Gabe Gutierrez joins us now live from the White House.

And gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking to lawmakers late tonight.

Secretary Rubio saying there was absolutely an imminent threat to justify this operation.

He argues that the Trump administration knew Israel was preparing to strike Iran and that if the US had waited for Iran to retaliate, Americans would have suffered higher casualties.

Still, there has been mixed messaging here, Rubio and Hexaf saying today that regime change is not the goal, although the administration would like to see it happen.

Those comments coming after President Trump urged Iranian protesters who recently faced a brutal government crackdown to take to the streets again and topple the regime.

Rubio and other top officials expected to continue briefing Congress tomorrow.

And tensions are high once again across the Gulf tonight with several countries targeted by Iranian attacks, including Dubai, where Keir Simmons is reporting tonight.

Tonight, conflict is spiraling and spreading to Iraq, Lebanon, and

as Gulf countries threaten to join this growing war.

Iran targeting major cities in the Middle east with hundreds of missiles and drones, including this one in Bahrain.

Dubai's iconic hotels hit many Iranian munitions still being shot down today.

Here, a burst of smoke beside the world's tallest building and the moment of impact at another hotel.

Alex Bouquet, who runs an American firm, fled to an Airbnb in the desert.

We grabbed our passports as well and we just started driving off.

This was Dubai airport over the weekend and nearby Abu Dhabi.

Thankfully, passengers have been evacuated.