• U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement saying the United States was not involved in the attacks and warning Iran to not target any U.S. facilities or personnel in any response.
• Israel has declared a state of emergency in anticipation of a missile and drone retaliatory strikes by Tehran.
• Israeli defense officials say their operations against Iran are expected to take multiple days.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterized the strikes as a "targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival."
  Additional details will be posted on the Daily Brief website as, and if, necessary, and will continue to be covered in tomorrow morning's regular edition.

[ 11pm EDT Update ] According to reports that cite both Iranian and Israeli government sources:

• Iranian Revolution Guard leader General Hossein Salami and multiple senior leaders of Iran's nuclear program are among those killed in the Israeli attacks.
• A senior Iranian official has said that both Israel and the U.S. will pay a heavy price for the attacks.
• Israel's Mossad spy agency carried out a series of covert sabotage operations inside Iran alongside the initial airstrikes.