Key Highlights
- officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
- The scope of the air and sea operations was not immediately clear.
- Iran was preparing a crushing retaliation, an Iranian official told Reuters.
- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not in Tehran and had been transferred to a secure location.
- This fallout in the Middle East is expected to escalate geopolitical tensions and uncertainty among investors, and various assets, especially equities, gold, and silver, are expected to react when trading resumes on Monday.
