In the aftermath of Saturday’s US-Israel strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, Tehran has continued to attack Israel and Gulf countries overnight and on Sunday while Israel has also continued its offensive on Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the strikes on Tehran will increase in the coming days.
Following Khamenei’s death, Iran has vowed “the most devastating offensive operation” against US bases and Israel in retaliation. The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the assassination of Khamenei is an “open war against Muslims, especially Shiites, in all corners of the world.”
BREAKING: A giant explosion has been seen in the centre of the Iranian capital.
It comes after the Israel Defense Force said the country's air force is hitting targets "in the heart of Tehran".https://t.co/W6yvoVES8E
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Iran resumed air strikes on UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, saying it was targeting US bases in the region. Reports that Cyprus had also been targeted were “clearly and unequivocally” denied by UK and Cyprus officials.
Casualties and injured civilians from Iranian strikes were reported in Israel, the UAE, and Kuwait on Sunday. Meanwhile, the US Central Command said three American service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in action.
Iran’s new leaders demand to speak with Trump
Tehran is open to any “serious efforts at de-escalation,” according to a statement from Oman’s foreign ministry. The country had been acting as a mediator in the recent nuclear talks between Iran and the United States before the strikes.
The US President has confirmed that Iran’s new leadership wants to talk with his administration, and he plans to do so. “They want to talk and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” he was quoted as saying by The Atlantic magazine. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
It was unclear when the conversations will happen, and Trump later posted on Truth Social that the US has “destroyed and sunk” nine Iranian naval ships. In exclusive comments to Al Jazeera, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran has “always been open to diplomacy, unlike the Americans, who attacked us for the second time during negotiations.”
Araghchi added that the country has no intention of closing the Strait of Hormuz at present nor any plans to do “anything that would disrupt navigation in it at this stage” and justified Iranian strikes on US targets in the Gulf countries, including on airports and hotels where US diplomats were believed to have found shelter, as acts of self-defense.
He added on X that a deal had been believed to be within reach by Friday, when the last mediation took place. “We left Geneva with the understanding that we would seal a deal next time we meet. Those who wanted to spoil diplomacy succeeded in their mission. But it was Mr. Trump, yet again, who ultimately ordered bombing of the negotiating table,” the Iranian official stated.
According to Trump’s earlier comments to media, Saturday’s air strike on Tehran was decided in order to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons within the next two weeks.
Residential buildings in Israel struck by Iran
Two people were killed in Tel Aviv by Iranian strikes on residential buildings during the night, the IDF confirmed. According to Israel’s Ministry of Health, since the start of the attack on Iran, an additional 456 people had been hospitalized. Of those, 86 remain in intensive care.
The death toll rose by an additional nine, killed by an Iranian missile in Beit Shemesh, where several buildings were completely demolished by the strike and more people are feared to be trapped under the rubble. There were at least forty injured taken to hospitals, while twenty more remained missing.
Four people were killed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh, Magen David Adom says.
Footage shows the moment of the impact. pic.twitter.com/tJHgxJoTae
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One person has been killed, and 32 have been injured in Kuwait, according to the state news agency. In the UAE, the Ministry of Defense reported a total of three people had been killed by Iranian attacks since Saturday. One person died, and seven were injured at Abu Dhabi’s International Airport from debris from an intercepted drone, while another four people were injured at Dubai International Airport—the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic.
Dubai authorities are shutting down the entire airport after an Iranian missile struck Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport, source in the airport told me. pic.twitter.com/zibMPKHgJi
— Ihtisham Ul Haq (@iihtishamm) February 28, 2026
Eight people were reported to have been injured by Iranian strikes in Qatar. A strike on Bahrain’s Crown Plaza in the capital city of Manama only resulted in material damage.
An Iranian drone/missile just directly hit the Crowne Plaza Manama, a 5-star hotel complex in Bahrain. pic.twitter.com/hfAn3aYIep
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 1, 2026
Aside from the casualties and injuries in the counties directly affected by the attacks, nine people lost their lives and more than thirty were injured in Karachi, Pakistan, as they clashed with police during a pro-Iranian regime protest at the US Consulate. Seven more were killed in a similar protest in northern Pakistan.
Pro-Iranian regime demonstrations also took place in Lebanon, led by Hezbollah, Iran’s closest proxy in the Middle East.
#BREAKING: US Consulate in Karachi under attack in Trump’s favourite country Pakistan. Protestors have barged in and destroyed building and set portions on fire.
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) March 1, 2026
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