A senior White House official said that ‘new potential leadership’ in Iran had suggested they were open for talks with the US.

They are the first reported American casualties since the surprise US-Israeli attack which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran was pressing on with its retaliation campaign targeting US military bases in Gulf states.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States on Saturday.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated by the US and Israel on Saturday.

Limerick man John Hayes has lived in Dubai for 16 years, and described how a “barrage of missiles” hit the city’s coastline on Saturday.

The actor addressed the incident during the NAACP Image Awards in California.