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Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: a special Sunday edition of The Front. A huge US

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Speaker 1: and Israeli airborne assault on Iran has killed the leader

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Speaker 1: of the Sheha World, eighty six year old Supreme Leader

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Speaker 1: Ali Khamena. As Iran fires waves of missiles at Israel,

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Speaker 1: American military bases and US allies in the Middle East,

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Speaker 1: the world waits to see if this is the end

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Speaker 1: of the repressive theocratic regime in Iran or the start

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Speaker 1: of a huge regional war. There are scores of deaths

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Speaker 1: being reported by Iranian state media, including a reported forty

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Speaker 1: killed at a girl's primary school in the country South.

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Speaker 1: Iranian state media reports another school was also struck. Social

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Speaker 1: media video verified by The Australians partner Storyfull Newswire, shows

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Speaker 1: Iranians celebrating the Iatoller's death on the streets of Karaj,

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Speaker 1: a northern city just outside the capital Tehran. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: announced Kamenay's death after hours of uncertainty in which Iran

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Speaker 1: continued to claim he was still alive. Trump described him

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Speaker 1: as one of the most evil people in history and

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Speaker 1: said he ran a gang of quote, bloodthirsty thugs. Trump

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Speaker 1: said in a statement, Kamenee was unable to avoid our

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Speaker 1: intelligence and highly sophisticated tracking systems and working closely with Israel,

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Speaker 1: there was not a thing he or the other leaders

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Speaker 1: that have been killed along with him could do. Iranian

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Speaker 1: ballistic missiles have fallen in Tel Aviv, destroying buildings as

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Speaker 1: Israelis spent a long day in and out of underground

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Speaker 1: shelters and now prepare for a long night of continued

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Speaker 1: sirens across a huge tract of central Israel. Airspace is

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Speaker 1: closed across the Middle East, disrupting airline travel around the world,

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Speaker 1: and their significant damage at Dubai and Kuwait International airports

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Speaker 1: in Dubai, bar Irrain, Kuwait and Qatar buildings have been

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Speaker 1: damaged by Iranian missile and drone strikes, and American bases

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Speaker 1: throughout the region have also been targeted, including this strike

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Speaker 1: on the US Fifth Fleet's headquarters in Bahrain. Tourists in

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Speaker 1: cities from Abu Dhabi to Doha have been forced to

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Speaker 1: take shelter in their hotels, and there's been panic buying

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Speaker 1: of food and water. The American and Israeli joined assault

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Speaker 1: named Operation Epic Fury, came after Donald Trump assembled a

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Speaker 1: massive naval flotilla in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea.

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Speaker 1: As negotiations continued with Iran in the past two days.

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Speaker 1: The talks stalled, and Trump said as the assault began

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night Australian Eastern Time, the Iranians had made

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Speaker 1: it clear they were not willing to give up their

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Speaker 1: nuclear program.

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Speaker 2: For forty seven years, the Iranian regime has chanted death

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Speaker 2: to America, waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,

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Speaker 2: targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people

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Speaker 2: in many many countries. Iran is the world's number one

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Speaker 2: state sponsor of terror and just recently killed tens of

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Speaker 2: thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested.

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Speaker 2: It has always been the policy of the United States,

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Speaker 2: in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never

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Speaker 2: have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again, they can

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Speaker 2: never have a nuclear weapon. They rejected every opportunity to

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Speaker 2: renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can't take it anymore.

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Speaker 1: When Iranians rose up in street protests in recent months,

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Speaker 1: Trump encouraged them to take control of government institutions, saying,

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Speaker 1: if the regime went on a bloody crackdown America would strike.

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Speaker 1: There was a crackdown in which thousands of Iranians were

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Speaker 1: killed and no American response until now. Now Trump is

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Speaker 1: again calling on Iranians to rise up.

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Speaker 2: America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force.

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Speaker 2: Now is the time to seize control of your destiny

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Speaker 2: and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is

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Speaker 2: close within your reach. This is the moment for action.

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Speaker 2: Do not let it pass.

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Speaker 1: At the United Nations Security Council in New York, America's

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Speaker 1: ambassador Mike Waltz said Around's attacks on his own Muslim

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Speaker 1: neighbors in the Middle East showed it was more interested

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Speaker 1: in self preservation than in regional security.

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Speaker 3: Those who stand with us must know that their security

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Speaker 3: is not negotiable. The safety of our allies is not conditional,

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Speaker 3: it is assured. The bottom line is this, colleagues, our

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Speaker 3: allies and partners can count on the United States and

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Speaker 3: can count on.

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Speaker 1: Resident trup Iranians in the worldwide diaspora, including in Australia,

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Speaker 1: some of whom took to the streets to celebrate the

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Speaker 1: Ayatola's fall, have expressed support for the exiled Crown Prince

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Speaker 1: Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's last king, the Shah,

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Speaker 1: who was overthrown in Iran's Islamic Revolution in nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: nine and died in exile in Egypt. The prince now

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Speaker 1: lives in the United States and has been calling for

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Speaker 1: America to strike and give Iranians the chance to seize power.

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