Iran warns of ‘irreversible harm’ to regional infrastructure if energy crops attacked
In a put up on X, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned that crucial infrastructure and vitality services within the Center East may very well be “irreversibly destroyed” if Iranian energy crops are attacked. He wrote:
double citation markInstantly after the facility crops and infrastructure in our nation are focused, the crucial infrastructure, vitality infrastructure, and oil services all through the area will probably be thought of authentic targets and will probably be destroyed in an irreversible method, and the worth of oil will stay excessive for a very long time.
The feedback come after Donald Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the strait of Hormuz to delivery or face the destruction of its vitality infrastructure.
On Saturday night, the US president wrote on Fact Social that the US would “hit and obliterate” Iranian energy crops – “beginning with the most important one first” – if Tehran didn’t absolutely reopen the strait inside 48 hours, or 23:44 GMT on Monday based on the time of his put up.
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Hezbollah has reported missile assaults on Israeli positions close to border.
In separate statements, the group mentioned it focused gatherings of Israeli troops on the Marj web site reverse the city of Markaba, in addition to in Jal al-Hammar, south of Odaisseh. It additionally mentioned it carried out a 3rd missile barrage focusing on Israeli troopers within the Taybeh venture space.
The claims haven’t but been independently verified.
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Kuwait has filed a grievance earlier than the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group (ICAO) concerning harmful airspace disruptions attributable to Iranian assaults, the nation’s Civil Aviation says.
It mentioned:
double citation markIran’s assaults are a blatant violation of worldwide conventions, as they uncovered passenger security to critical dangers.
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In depth harm to crucial infrastructure in Iran, officers say
Iran’s crucial water and vitality infrastructure have suffered in depth harm on account of US and Israeli strikes on tens of 1000’s of civilian websites, officers mentioned on Sunday.
ISNA information company reported that vitality minister Abbas Aliabadi mentioned:
double citation markThe nation’s very important water and electrical energy infrastructure has suffered heavy harm following terrorist and cyber assaults by america and the Zionist regime.
The assaults focused dozens of water transmission and therapy services and destroyed components of crucial water provide networks.
Iran’s Purple Crescent chief Pirhossein Kolivand mentioned the overall variety of broken civilian websites “has reached 81,365 based mostly on the most recent subject assessments”. He mentioned the determine consists of residential and business models, colleges, medical centres and automobiles.
He added:
double citation markBehind each broken unit stands a household, a life, a reminiscence, a livelihood, and a future that has collapsed beneath the rubble of conflict and violence.
Journalists in Tehran have reported harm to a number of residential buildings and different civilian infrastructure.
On Sunday, ISNA information company reported that strikes had broken a hospital within the southern metropolis of Ahvaz, in Khuzestan province.
Different media, together with Fars information company, confirmed photographs of rescuers pulling our bodies from the rubble of destroyed buildings within the northern metropolis of Tabriz.
It was not instantly clear when these strikes passed off.
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Israel’s navy studies wave of Iranian missiles
Israel’s navy says it has detected a wave of Iranian missiles heading in direction of the nation, a Telegram replace from the Israel Protection Drive says.
It mentioned that individuals in affected areas would obtain cell alerts and urged them to observe the usual process of taking shelter.
The Israeli navy says it’s working to intercept the risk, and {that a} precautionary alert has been despatched to cellphones within the related areas.
The Iranian state broadcaster, IRIB, additionally reported {that a} new wave of missile assaults has begun.
Individually, the UAE’s defence ministry says it has intercepted 4 ballistic missiles and 25 drones launched from Iran on Sunday.
In whole, the UAE’s air defences have now intercepted 345 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, and 1,773 drone since “the beginning of Iran’s blatant aggression”, it mentioned in a put up on X.
Israeli media are reporting a number of “impacts” in central Israel after the most recent Iranian missile barrage.
Israel’s Kann broadcaster shared a photograph of what gave the impression to be a crater close to a parking zone, with out noting the precise location.
The Occasions of Israel cited Israel’s emergency medical service as saying it has not obtained studies of accidents.
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Turkish international minister Hakan Fidan mentioned steps to finish the conflict between Iran, america and Israel with counterparts from Iran and Egypt, in addition to US officers and the European Union, a Turkish diplomatic supply advised Reuters on Sunday.
The supply mentioned Fidan had held separate calls with Iranian international minister Abbas Araqchi, Egyptian international minister Badr Abdelatty, European Union international coverage chief Kaja Kallas, and US officers, with out elaborating additional.
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Lebanon studies lethal air assaults
The Israel Protection Forces says it has launched contemporary strikes on southern Lebanon. In an announcement shared on Telegram, it mentioned floor and air forces have been concerned within the assaults.
Lebanon’s nationwide information company, citing the well being ministry, is reporting that Israeli has waged lethal air assaults within the southern Lebanese cities of al-Sultaniyah and as-Sawana.
The assault on Al-Sultaniyah killed three individuals and wounded three others, whereas the assault on as-Sawana killed one individual and injured 4, based on the report.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has advised forces to destroy bridges over the Litani River – which Israel says is utilized by Hezbollah – saying he desires troops to escalate the destruction of properties in focused villages.
Airstrikes destroyed two bridges over the river linking southern Lebanon with the remainder of the nation earlier this week, the IDF mentioned.
A fireball rises from the positioning of an Israeli airstrike that focused the Qasmiyeh Bridge. {Photograph}: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Photographs
Lebanon’s nationwide information company has reported that an Israeli assault has focused southern Lebanon’s Qasmiyeh Bridge. Footage shared by Israel’s Kann broadcaster seems to point out a sequence of explosion concurrently on and close to the bridge, with a cloud of smoke rising up.
Qasmiyeh Bridge is a key route alongside the coastal freeway, and its destruction would successfully lower off components of southern Lebanon from the remainder of the nation.
An AFP correspondent noticed smoke rising from the positioning north of town of Tyre after the bombardment of the Qasmiyeh bridge, positioned on a foremost freeway linking villages within the Tyre district with others additional north.
Al Jazeera Arabic reported that there was Israeli artillery shelling and airstrikes in a number of cities in southern Lebanon. Shelling was reported in Arnoun, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Yahmar al-Shaqif. An airstrike was additionally reported on the outskirts of Yahmar al-Shaqif.
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Iranian ballistic missile barrages wounded greater than 100 individuals in southern Israel on Saturday – right here drone footage exhibits widespread harm to 2 Israeli cities.
Drone footage exhibits harm to 2 Israeli cities after Iranian missile strikes – videoShare
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In a go to to Arad in southern Israel, the place greater than 80 individuals have been injured by Iranian missile strikes on Saturday, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned it was a “miracle” nobody was killed.
Talking on Sunday, he urged the Israeli public to not be “complacent”, saying they want to enter shelters throughout missile alerts.
He mentioned:
double citation markThere was a full 10 minutes from the alert till the missile fell.
The missile fell right here, between the buildings. And if everybody had gone throughout these minutes into the protected areas, into the shelters beneath each constructing right here, nobody would have been harmed.
Don’t be complacent, don’t be detached.
Once you hear the primary alert, go instantly to the protected house.
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About 200 individuals injured in Iranian missile strikes close to nuclear facility in Israel
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Iranian missile strikes have wounded about 200 individuals in southern Israel, after air defence methods did not intercept projectiles that hit two cities near a nuclear facility.
Among the many injured within the assaults on Arad and Dimona have been a 12-year-old boy and a five-year-old woman, each reported to be in critical situation. The Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 reported early indications of doable deaths, although there was no official affirmation.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (within the centre along with his palms in his pockets) inspects harm at a web site hit by a missile throughout an Iranian assault on Arad in southern Israel. {Photograph}: Avi Ohayon/GPO/ Handout/Anadolu/Getty Photographs
In Tel Aviv, 15 extra individuals have been injured on Sunday in a separate assault involving a cluster bomb. The assaults are including to mounting strain on Israel’s air defence methods, with Iranian strikes more and more testing their limits.
A mass-casualty incident was declared at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, as emergency groups responded to a number of influence websites.
Eli Bin, the chief govt of Magen David Adom, Israel’s ambulance service, mentioned some individuals have been believed to be trapped in broken buildings in Arad. He described the scene as “an occasion of huge magnitude”, including that there have been issues for people who remained unaccounted for. You possibly can learn the total story right here:
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Center East conflict has reached ‘perilous stage’ after assaults on nuclear services, WHO warns
The top of the World Well being Group, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that strikes round nuclear websites in Iran and Israel had pushed the conflict to a “perilous stage”.
“The conflict within the Center East has reached a dangerous stage with strikes reportedly hitting the Natanz Enrichment Advanced in Iran, and the Israeli metropolis of Dimona, the place a nuclear facility is positioned,” he wrote in a put up on X. “No indications of irregular or elevated off-site radiation ranges have been reported.”
“Assaults focusing on nuclear websites create an escalating risk to public well being and environmental security.”
“I urgently name on all events to train most navy restraint and keep away from any actions that might set off nuclear incidents.”
An Israeli soldier makes use of a torch to examine the harm after Iranian missile barrages struck Dimona in southern Israel, on 21 March 2026. {Photograph}: Ilan Assayag/Reuters
The WHO chief’s feedback come after an Iranian missile hit the Israeli city of Dimona, close to the positioning of a nuclear facility, in what Iran mentioned was retaliation for strikes by itself nuclear web site at Natanz.
Dimona hosts a facility simply exterior the principle city extensively believed to own the Center East’s sole nuclear arsenal, though Israel has by no means admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.
Iran mentioned on Tuesday that an unspecified projectile had hit an space close to the Bushehr nuclear energy plant. No harm to the plant or accidents to workers have been reported.
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Israel has repeatedly launched lethal strikes on Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs since its renewed offensive of Lebanon that started on 2 March – killing over 1,000 individuals, together with a minimum of 118 youngsters, injuring over 2,500 others, and displacing over one million.
Displaced individuals take shelter in Beirut following blanket displacement orders for the inhabitants within the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs. {Photograph}: Khalil Ashawi/ReutersDisplaced individuals take shelter in Beirut following lethal Israeli airstrikes. {Photograph}: Yara Nardi/ReutersIsraeli tanks are deployed alongside the northern Israeli border with Lebanon on 21 March 2026. {Photograph}: Atef Safadi/EPAShare
IDF instructed to speed up demolition of Lebanese homes near the border, defence minister says
The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, mentioned the navy has been advised to speed up the demolition of Lebanese properties in frontline villages near the border, “according to the mannequin utilized in Gaza’s Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” which have principally been flattened in Israeli assaults through the ongoing Israeli conflict on Gaza.
Katz mentioned the navy was instructed to “speed up the demolition of Lebanese homes within the contact villages to be able to thwart threats to Israeli communities”.
He additionally claimed the IDF was ordered to destroy bridges over the Litani River – positioned 30km from Israel’s border with Lebanon – to forestall Hezbollah – the Lebanese militant group – “transferring south” with weapons. Earlier this week, Israeli airstrikes destroyed two bridges over the river connecting southern Lebanon with the remainder of the nation.
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The renewed Israeli assault on Lebanon started on 2 March after Hezbollah launched rockets into northern Israel in response to the killing of the previous Iranian supreme chief, Ali Khamenei, in joint US-Israeli airstrikes.
The IDF ordered civilians in southern Lebanon to “transfer instantly to areas north of the Litani River”, in a sweeping order reportedly affecting a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals.
Israel has since despatched floor troops into southern Lebanon in what many concern might result in an occupation within the south of the nation. The Worldwide Fee of Jurists mentioned in an announcement on the renewed Israeli conflict on Lebanon:
double citation markThe forcible switch of civilians, when not justified by crucial navy necessity and the safety of the civilians concerned, is prohibited and, in sure circumstances, might quantity to a conflict crime.
In mild of Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich’s assertion threatening to show Beirut’s southern suburbs into “one other Khan Younis”, a metropolis within the Gaza Strip, in addition to of statements by Israeli defence minister Israel Katz on 16 March that displaced civilians in southern Lebanon “won’t return house till northern Israel is protected”, and of the introduced institution of a buffer zone within the south of the nation, the ICJ is gravely involved that the IDF displacement orders, mixed with floor incursions and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, such because the Litani bridge and residential buildings, might proof a deliberate coverage of forcibly eradicating the civilian inhabitants from territory the IDF is about to achieve management of, together with by making civilian life untenable within the affected areas.
That is according to an IDF’s sample already documented within the Gaza Strip of forcible transfers of the civilian inhabitants.
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Seven individuals have been killed in a helicopter crash in Qatar’s territorial waters, Qatar and Turkey mentioned earlier right this moment.
The Qatari and Turkish defence ministries mentioned the helicopter crashed after struggling a technical malfunction, which the Qatari ministry mentioned was throughout “routine responsibility”.
4 of these killed have been Qatari armed forces personnel, one was from the Qatar-Turkey joint forces and two have been technicians, the Turkish and Qatari defence ministries mentioned.
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Iran warns of ‘irreversible harm’ to regional infrastructure if energy crops attacked
In a put up on X, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned that crucial infrastructure and vitality services within the Center East may very well be “irreversibly destroyed” if Iranian energy crops are attacked. He wrote:
double citation markInstantly after the facility crops and infrastructure in our nation are focused, the crucial infrastructure, vitality infrastructure, and oil services all through the area will probably be thought of authentic targets and will probably be destroyed in an irreversible method, and the worth of oil will stay excessive for a very long time.
The feedback come after Donald Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the strait of Hormuz to delivery or face the destruction of its vitality infrastructure.
On Saturday night, the US president wrote on Fact Social that the US would “hit and obliterate” Iranian energy crops – “beginning with the most important one first” – if Tehran didn’t absolutely reopen the strait inside 48 hours, or 23:44 GMT on Monday based on the time of his put up.
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The web blackout in Iran has entered its twenty third day, based on web monitoring group NetBlocks. It mentioned:
double citation markAfter 528 hours, Iran is coming into a twenty third day remoted from the world because the regime-imposed web blackout continues in its fourth week.
The measure provides to the wartime misery of tens of millions of civilians who lack unbiased sources of data and alerts.
These with out entry to Starlink or alternative routes to speak – which are sometimes costly – are lower off, not solely from the surface world however the blackout additionally severely curtails Iranian’s capacity to speak with one another, making mobilisation, for instance, far more tough.
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Russia has emerged as a key beneficiary of the US-Israeli conflict on Iran, with the Trump administration having issued a 30-day waiver for nations to purchase sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum merchandise stranded at sea to ease surging oil costs pushed by the escalating battle.
Russia has been underneath US and European sanctions because it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Analysts warned the easing of sanctions would grant Moscow a major monetary windfall for use to proceed to wage its conflict.
Requested if Russian President Vladimir Putin is gaining from the easing of sanctions, a transfer condemned by many European nations, Zelenskyy advised the BBC:
double citation markPutin will need a lengthy conflict. For Putin, a protracted conflict in Iran is a plus. Along with vitality costs, it means the depletion of US reserves and the depletion of air defence producers – so we have now a depletion of assets.
So, it’s helpful for Putin that the assets don’t go to Ukraine towards whom he has directed his military and is combating with. He must weaken us and this can be a lengthy course of. The Center East is likely one of the methods to try this.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy advised the BBC’s Laura Kuenssbergg that the conflict in Iran helps Vladimir Putin. {Photograph}: Jeff Overs/BBC/PAShare
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Zelenskyy has a ‘very dangerous feeling’ about influence of Iran conflict on Ukraine’s struggle towards Russia
In an interview with the BBC recorded throughout a go to to London within the week, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy talked in regards to the influence of Donald Trump’s consideration being diverted from Russia’s conflict on Ukraine to the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. He mentioned:
double citation markI’ve a really dangerous feeling in regards to the influence of this conflict on the scenario in Ukraine and the main focus of America is extra on the Center East than on Ukraine, sadly.
Due to this fact, you see that our diplomatic conferences, trilateral conferences are always postponed. There may be one motive: conflict in Iran.
Zelenskyy mentioned that though trilateral conferences have been postponed, Kyiv and Washington officers are nonetheless speaking each day, and that Washington and Moscow are talking each day. He continued:
double citation markThe American facet, due to this conflict in Iran, mentioned that it was able to host each side in America. We confirmed our participation however the Russians are towards assembly in america of America.
That’s why in the interim we attempt to concentrate on America proposing a date and place. Ukraine will help any date and anyplace however actually not in Russia.
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The IDF mentioned yesterday that the Iranian regime posed “a world risk”, claiming the nation’s missiles “can attain London, Paris or Berlin”, with out providing any proof to again up its declare.
The assertion was issued following a reported tried Iranian strike on the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia – within the Chagos Islands – on Thursday evening into Friday morning.
Tehran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles on the Chagos island however neither hit, the Iranian information company Mehr reported. One of many missiles was shot down by a US warship, whereas the opposite failed in flight, based on the Wall Avenue Journal, citing a number of officers.
There are doubts Iran even has missiles able to reaching Diego Garcia, which is about 4,000km from Iran.
Steve Reed mentioned the UK has methods and defences in place that preserve the general public protected. {Photograph}: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA
Talking to the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme this morning, the UK’s housing secretary, Steve Reed, refused to say how shut Iran’s long-range missiles got here to reaching Diego Garcia.
He recommended Israel’s warning that Iran has developed long-range missiles able to reaching Europe is exaggerated. Reed mentioned:
double citation markThere is no such thing as a particular evaluation that the Iranians are focusing on the UK and even might, in the event that they needed to. We have now the best navy on the planet. We’re completely able to defending this nation.
Reed mentioned the IDF’s assertion was “conditional”, including “there isn’t any evaluation to substantiate what’s being mentioned”.
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