Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will “strike every target” of Iran’s regime, as tensions between the long-standing foes continue to flare, CNN reports.

Netanyahu said that in the “very near future, you will see Israeli planes, the Israeli Air Force, our brave pilots, above the skies of Tehran.”

“Warning of a protracted fight, Israel and Iran carried out waves of deadly attacks on Saturday, with neither side heeding international pleas for an de-escalation of hostilities,” the New York Times reports.

“In sweeping attacks that started early Friday, Israel has struck at the regime in Tehran, hitting Iranian nuclear and military assets. The Israeli strikes have killed more than 70 people, including four top security chiefs, and damaged Iran’s main nuclear site at Natanz.”

“Iran, in turn, has launched barrages of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, targeting what it says are military assets, but with less apparent success.“

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said Saturday that he had to head to a shelter five times overnight as Iran launched retaliatory strikes, the New York Times reports.

Said Huckabee: “It’s now Shabbat here. Should be quiet. Probably won’t be.”

Iran said further nuclear talks with the U.S. are now “meaningless” after Israel’s strikes, Tehran Times reports.

“Iran’s senior leaders had been planning for more than a week for an Israeli attack should nuclear talks with the United States fail. But they made one enormous miscalculation,” the New York Times reports.

“They never expected Israel to strike before another round of talks that had been scheduled for this coming Sunday in Oman, officials close to Iran’s leadership said on Friday. They dismissed reports that an attack was imminent as Israeli propaganda meant to pressure Iran to make concessions on its nuclear program in those talks.”

The Atlantic: How Israel executed its surprise assault on Iran.

“Voice of America told about 75 employees to come back to work immediately Friday amid escalating military action between Iran and Israel,” the Washington Post reports.

“Most of the staffers restored from months-long administrative leave were from the Persian news division of the government-funded broadcaster.”

“President Donald Trump spent the bulk of this week saying he hoped Israel wouldn’t strike Iran. But by Friday, he was all in,” Politico reports.

“The president had hoped for more time to negotiate with Tehran over its nuclear program, but once Israel launched the massive attack, Trump embraced the new dynamic, using it as leverage to try to seal the deal he wanted all along.”

Wall Street Journal: How a once-resistant Trump decided to back Israel’s attacks on Iran.

The Atlantic: What Trump knew about the attack against Iran.

“On the first day of his second term, President Trump predicted he would be remembered as a peacemaker and a unifier,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Trump: “Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent and totally unpredictable.”

“About five months later, the world is proving to be more angry, violent and unpredictable than Trump bargained for.”

“The war in Ukraine, which Trump vowed to end immediately, is grinding on despite his repeated attempts to broker a resolution. Peace in Gaza remains out of reach. And now, Israel’s strikes on Iran threaten to envelop the Middle East in a broader conflagration, potentially dragging the U.S. in to defend its longtime ally.”

Tucker Carlson made waves when he criticized not only President Trump, whom he described as being “complicit” in Israel’s attack on Iran, but also former Fox News colleagues like Sean Hannity and Rupert Murdoch for acting as “warmongers,” the Daily Beast reports.

“As Israel pummels Iran with waves of airstrikes, President Trump is navigating the divides within the Republican Party over whether the United States should get involved in another foreign conflict,” the New York Times reports.

“On one side are the isolationists who fear that Israel could pull the United States into another Middle East war. And on the other are the Iran hawks and Israel supporters who have been calling for just this sort of military action for years.”

“Mr. Trump appears caught between the two sides, veering back and forth as he tries to distance the United States from Israel’s assault while celebrating the success of the attacks and warning Iran that more is coming.”

“A federal judge in California has halted a State Department plan to lay off almost 2,000 employees, marking a setback to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s push to rapidly downsize the agency,” the Washington Post reports.

Wall Street Journal: “With a sixth round of talks between Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff and his Iranian counterparts set for Sunday in Oman, Israeli and U.S. officials warned of military action if Iran didn’t agree to end its production of fissile material that can be used in nuclear weapons.”

“Instead, Israel hit first, achieving tactical surprise through a devastating series of blows that killed three top Iranian generals and key nuclear scientists and hit sites linked to the country’s nuclear programs.”

“Israel’s operation against Iran’s nuclear program, military leadership and arsenal of missiles is nowhere near over, with Israel having planned out 14 days of operations,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The likely duration of the campaign fits with analysts’ expectations that a single wave of strikes wouldn’t be able to do enough damage to Iran’s nuclear program and Israel’s comprehensive approach of attacking Iran’s facilities, leadership and arsenal at the same time to limit the possibility of a retaliatory strike.”

“On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to end the world’s hottest conflicts and usher in global peace, but nearly five months in, with Israel attacking Iran and bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine unabated, those hopes are in shambles,” Reuters reports.

Daily Beast: Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last-ditch plea.

“I think it’s been excellent. We gave them a chance and they didn’t take it. They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you’re going to get hit. And there’s more to come. A lot more.”

— President Trump, discussing Israel’s strike on Iran with ABC News.

“President Donald Trump will attend a National Security Council meeting on Friday morning, the White House said late on Thursday after Israeli strikes on Iran that have put the Middle East on edge,” Reuters reports.

“President Trump said he encouraged Iran to make a nuclear deal and had warned the country’s leadership there could be lethal consequences for failing to negotiate,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Trump: “Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”

He added: “Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left.”

Tom Nichols: “At the end of the classic 1972 film The Godfather, the new don of the family, Michael Corleone, attends a baptism while his men wipe out the heads of the other New York mafia families—all of them Michael’s enemies, and all intending one day to do him harm. Rather than wait for their eventual attacks, Michael dispatched them himself. ‘Today, I settled all family business,’ Michael says to his traitorous brother-in-law, before having him killed.”

“Tonight, the Israelis launched a broad, sweeping attack on Iran that seems like an attempt to settle, so to speak, all family business. The Israeli government has characterized this offensive as a ‘preemptive’ strike on Iran: ‘We are now in a strategic window of opportunity and close to a point of no return, and we had no choice but to take action,’ an Israeli military official told reporters. Israeli spokespeople suggest that these attacks, named Operation Rising Lion, could go on for weeks.”

“But calling this a ‘preemptive’ strike is questionable. The Israelis, from what we know so far, are engaged in a preventive war: They are removing the source of a threat by surprise, on their own timetable and on terms they find favorable. They may be justified in doing so, but such actions carry great moral and practical risks.”