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(NewsNation) — The fighting betwixt Israel and Iran reached caller heights overnight Thursday arsenic the Islamic Republic fired missiles crossed Israel, injuring dozens and importantly damaging one of its largest hospitals.
One time prior, Israel targeted Tehran successful the aboriginal hours of the morning. The countries person traded rocket strikes for a week, and officials estimation astatine slightest 224 person been killed successful Iran and dozens successful Israel.
Now, the satellite waits to spot if President Donald Trump volition enter the U.S. into the conflict with strikes against Iran.
Trump has been weighing his options for American subject engagement successful the portion for days and has reviewed onslaught plans connected Iran, a root has confirmed to NewsNation.
He has called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender," portion Iran has warned that immoderate U.S. enactment would effect successful “irreparable damage to them.”
A superior people for immoderate U.S. engagement would apt beryllium the Fordow substance enrichment site, buried heavy underground, which Israeli officials person acknowledged lone America’s alleged “bunker-buster” bombs could afloat destroy.
Evacuations ensue amid Israel-Iran conflict
The U.S. embassy successful Israel is orchestrating evacuation flights and cruises for Americans successful the country.
NewsNation confirmed 1 of the evacuees is Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli hostage who was held captive successful the Gaza Strip for much than 19 months and released successful May.
Smoke rises from locations targeted successful Tehran amid the 3rd time of Israel's waves of strikes against Iran, connected June 15, 2025. (Photo by Khoshiran / Middle East Images via AFP)
Missiles fired from Iran are pictured successful the nighttime entity implicit Jerusalem connected June 14, 2025. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / GETTY-AFP)
A wide presumption shows heavy damaged buildings, pursuing an overnight Iranian rocket onslaught successful Bat Yam connected June 15, 2025. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN /Getty-AFP)
Israeli rescuers hunt done the rubble astatine the tract of an overnight Iranian rocket onslaught successful Bat Yam connected June 15, 2025. (Photo by Menahem Kahana /Getty-AFP)
Officials are besides readying for a partial evacuation of the U.S. embassy successful Iraq, sources said connected Wednesday.
“The State Department regularly reviews American unit abroad, and this determination was made arsenic a effect of a caller review,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Reuters erstwhile asked astir reports of the partial evacuations.
A White House authoritative said Trump was alert of the move.
US subject jets, ships displacement toward Middle East
The USS Gerald Ford — the Navy's newest and astir precocious craft bearer — volition caput to Europe adjacent week. The determination is portion of a antecedently scheduled deployment, but it volition springiness Trump a 3rd craft bearer enactment arsenic helium weighs imaginable U.S. engagement successful the Middle East.
A Pentagon authoritative confirmed to NewsNation that the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Nimitz will beryllium successful the Middle East astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic they manus implicit responsibilities.
The determination was “pre-planned” and “just happened to coincide with portion tensions,” the official said.
Earlier this week, the U.S. subject deployed combatant aircraft — including F-16, F-22 and F-35 jets — to the Middle East amid the conflict, 2 officials told Reuters.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
