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In this bonus episode, Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim discuss Donald Trump's decision to strike three nuclear sites in Iran.

Yalda is in Jerusalem and Richard is in Tel Aviv, where both of reported all night on Saturday when the strikes happened.

Yalda reveals what her contacts are telling her about the extent of the damage done to the sites. 

And they ask: What could happen next?

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Iran has fired missiles towards Israel, the Israeli Defence Forces says.

The Israeli military instructed residents to take cover in protected spaces.

The UK was not involved in the US strikes on Iran, the armed forces minister has said.

When pressed on if the UK agreed with US action in Iran, Luke Pollard told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast that he would not comment.

"What we can say is we were not involved in the military action that the US took, nor have we been involved in the action the Israeli government have been taking against Iran," he said.

"Our focus and the work that we are doing in conjunction with our US allies... is to put the pressure on the Iranian regime to get back to negotiations, because a diplomatic solution is how we bring this crisis to an end."

Pollard also said the UK was not "asked to participate in the strikes", and "we did not provide UK bases for those strikes".

Asked if the UK government would organise flights for Britons who want to leave Israel, Pollard said that the government is "looking at scheduling planes out of Tel Aviv airport".

The Israeli defence forces says it attacked six airfields across Iran.

Some 15 jets and helicopters were destroyed in western, eastern, and central Iran, the IDF said.

This included F-14, F-5, and AH-1 aircraft.

By Sarah Taaffe-Maguire, business and economics reporter

The latest escalation between the US and Israel against Iran has unsurprisingly increased the cost of oil.  

But after an initial spike on the open last night, prices eased.

A barrel of Brent crude - the benchmark price - actually costs less than it did on Thursday at $78.16.

As oil markets opened for the first time since the weekend strikes, the price shot up to $80.13, a five-month high last seen in late January.

It's worth remembering that this is around the average price for 2024.

While the increase since late last week isn't so sharp, oil is up substantially throughout June. 

This time last month, a barrel cost $64, when prices were depressed after the world reeled from Donald Trump's April tariff announcements.

Iran is not the world's largest producer, and no oil sites have been hit, allowing investors to remain relatively calm, for now.

There is a "solidarity among the Iranian people", a journalist from the country has said.

Speaking from Tehran, Emad Anshenas told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast that anyone in Iran who was in favour of negotiations over the US strikes were now on the "weak side".

"The [government] cannot come out and tell the Iranian people we are going to negotiate the US which attacked us," he said, adding "it will be very hard for them to talk about negotiations".

Asked where the majority of public opinion is, he said: "For the first time in four or five decades I see a solidarity among the Iranian people which was never seen inside Iran before.

"We probably had this solidarity during the Iran-Iraq war and now it is back again.

"If you walk through the Iranian streets everyone is asking for a hard response, especially against Israel.

"And now everyone is questioning why the nuclear bomb is not being produced."

The Iranian armed forces says the US should expect heavy consequences for its strikes.

The attacks have expanded the scope of legitimate targets for Iran's armed forces, a spokesperson for its Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said.

Ebrahim Zolfaqari ended his statement in English: "Mr Trump, the gambler, you may start this war, but we will be the ones to end it."

The Israeli air force says it is striking military infrastructure sites in Kermanshah, a city of about a million people in western Iran.

More than 15 Israeli jets were involved in the assault, which the air force said destroyed several missile launch and storage sites.

Israeli strikes on Iran's Yazd province killed ten Revolutionary Guards yesterday, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.

The Israeli Defence Forces said fighter jets struck a strategic missile command centre, where long-range missiles were stored.

Approximately 60 missiles have been launched from this command centre toward Israel, it said.

The US strikes came after a week of open conflict between Israel and Iran, sparked by Israel's sudden barrage of attacks against Iran's nuclear and military structure.

Here we give you a recap of what has happened so far.

Israel attacks: Israel attacked Iran on 13 June, striking Iranian military and nuclear sites and killing several top military officials and nuclear scientists. 

Why? Israeli leaders argued Iran could quickly assemble a nuclear weapon, making it an imminent threat, while US intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency assessed Tehran was not actively pursuing a bomb.

Iran retaliates: Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at Israel, some of which penetrated the country's vaunted Iron Dome air defence system. 

More strikes and counter-strikes: Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 950 people, including 380 civilians, and wounded 3,450 others, according to the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists. Israel said Iranian attacks killed 24 people and wounded hundreds.

US joins conflict: Bombers carried out "massive precision strikes" on Iran's Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites on Saturday night, Trump said. American bunker-buster bombs were the only munitions that could have hit Fordow, buried beneath a mountain.

Aftermath: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes were not aimed at toppling the Iranian government, but Donald Trump suggested regime change would be a positive outcome. For its part, Iran has threatened the US with a "decisive response".

Watch: Mark Stone explains US strikes on Iran