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Smoke rises up to the sky, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Smoke rises up to the sky, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Israel strikes Iran nuclear sites and military leadership, as Middle East braces for retaliation

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Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, looks on during a military exercise in Isfahan, Iran, in this handout image obtained on September 8, 2022.

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12/17/2023 Tehran, Iran. Hossein Salami, the Head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), delivers a speech during a funeral procession commemorating the remains of 110 Iranian soldiers recovered from former battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) in Tehran on December 17, 2023. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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One of Iran’s most powerful men, Major General Salami, was killed in the attack. Who was he?

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his shrine just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

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Iran’s supreme leader says Israel must expect ‘severe punishment’

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US official tells CNN there was no US involvement or assistance in the strikes

President Donald Trump takes questions in the East Room of the White House on June 12, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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Israel strikes Iranian nuclear and military targets in unprecedented attacks

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