Notes

Overnight on Friday, Israeli planes, drones, and missiles attacked Iran’s nuclear sites and tried to assassinate the country’s military leadership and top nuclear scientists. Media reports say Israel seriously damaged Iran’s main nuclear facility, in Natanz, and killed more than 20 senior military and civilian officials, including the head of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Hossein Salami. Iranian authorities say 78 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in the airstrikes.

Israeli missiles continued to hit Iran throughout Friday. That night, Iran retaliated, saying it had fired 100 drones at Israel, targeting military sites. Israeli hospitals reported 17 wounded people. But for several weeks now, Iran and the U.S. had meanwhile been engaging in apparently serious negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program, and media reports said both sides had made concessions to move closer to a deal.

Now what?

—Michael Bluhm