Latest updates (2015ET):

• In the past 48 hours, Israel has asked the Trump administration to join its war effort, per Axios

• Israel seeks help targeting & destroying the fortified Fordow uranium enrichment site

• Axios says the Trump administration is so far rejecting the Israeli request

• But if Fordow remains intact, Israel's mission to dismantle Iran's nuclear program will be considered a failure

• AJ: At least 80 people – including 20 children – have been killed in Iran and four in Israel, with hundreds wounded on both sides in the ongoing tit-for-tat attacks.

Axios underscores that "Israel lacks the bunker buster bombs and large bomber aircraft needed to destroy Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment site, which is built into a mountain and deep underground. The U.S. has both within flying distance of Iran."

Meanwhile, the images coming out of Iran show unprecedented and shocking scenes of oil refineries burning uncontrollably while nearby highway traffic has been forcibly stopped...

Reports of an Iranian hypersonic missile strike on Haifa earlier: