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Saudi Arabia said it intercepted drones targeting the Ras Tanura refinery near Dammam but that falling debris started a fire. State TV said the refinery, with capacity above half a million barrels a day, was temporarily shut as a precaution, with no casualties.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain had accepted a U.S. request to use its bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites but would not join offensive action, citing the lessons of Iraq. Earlier Sunday, Britain, France and Germany said they were ready to help stop Iran's attacks, potentially by destroying its missile and drone capability "at their source."
Central Command said B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran's ballistic missile facilities with 2,000-pound bombs, and Trump said U.S. forces had destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval ships and "largely destroyed" Iran's naval headquarters. Earlier Sunday the U.S. military said it struck an Iranian warship at a southern port.
Maersk, the world's largest container line, said it was suspending all vessel crossings of the Strait of Hormuz until further notice. CMA CGM had told its ships in and bound for the Gulf to shelter, and MSC ordered its Gulf vessels to safe areas and stopped Middle East bookings; Iran's foreign minister told Al Jazeera the same day Iran had no plan to close the strait "at this stage."
The UAE Defense Ministry said it had detected 165 ballistic missiles, destroying 152, two cruise missiles and 541 drones, intercepting 506, and that three people from Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh were killed and 58 injured. Iran's security chief Ali Larijani said bases hosting U.S. forces were "American soil" and would be hit.
Oman's news agency said two drones targeted the commercial port of Duqm, one hitting workers' housing and injuring a foreign worker. Oman's Maritime Security Centre then said the Palau-flagged tanker Skylight was attacked about 5 nautical miles off Musandam; four of its 20 crew were wounded and all were evacuated.
Under Iran's constitution, a council of President Masoud Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei and a Guardian Council jurist took over the supreme leader's duties; security chief Ali Larijani said it would be formed Sunday, and state media named cleric Alireza Arafi as the third member. The Assembly of Experts must choose a new leader "as soon as possible."
A Red Crescent spokesperson told Iranian media that U.S. and Israeli strikes had hit 24 of Iran's 31 provinces, killing at least 201 people and wounding 747, with more than 220 rescue teams at the targeted sites.
The UAE's state news agency said at least one person was killed in Abu Dhabi by shrapnel after several Iranian missiles were intercepted, the first known death from Iran's counterattack. The UAE called it a flagrant violation of its sovereignty and reserved the right to respond.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi told CBS News that Iran had agreed never to hold nuclear material that could make a bomb and to blend down its enriched uranium stockpile irreversibly, and that a "peace deal is within our reach" if diplomacy was given space.
Flying to Texas, Trump gave the final order for the Iran operation at 3:38 p.m. EST, writing "Operation Epic Fury approved ... Good luck," according to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine. Hours earlier he had told reporters he was "not happy" with Iran's negotiating and had not decided.
The State Department authorized the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and their families from Israel, citing unspecified "safety risks," and said Americans may wish to leave while commercial flights were available.
Oman's foreign minister Badr al-Busaidi said the third round of indirect talks between U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Iran's Abbas Araghchi had ended with "significant progress" and would resume soon, with technical talks in Vienna the following week. Araghchi called it one of the "most intense and longest" rounds.