US Iran war news LIVE updates: US and Israel late on Saturday targeted oil facilities in Iran, in a first since the conflict began last week
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The widening conflict in the Middle East saw fresh warnings from US President Donald Trump, who warned that Iran will be “hit very hard today”. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would continue its war with Iran “with all our force” as part of a “systemic plan to eradicate the Iranian regime”. Israel on Saturday struck an airport in Iran’s Isfahan, destroying F14 fighter jets….Read More
Iran has warned that it is capable of an “intense war” for another six months. Ali Mohammad Naini, spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said Iran had so far used “first and second generation” missiles, but will use “advanced and less-used long-range missiles” in the coming days.
As Tehran continues retaliatory strikes on its neighbours including UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday said that his earlier remarks apologising to Gulf nations had been “misinterpreted by the enemy that seeks to sow division with neighbours.”
“It has repeatedly been said we are brothers and must have good relations with neighbours. However, we are forced to retaliate to attacks but this does not mean we have a dispute with a (neighbouring) country or want to upset their people,” Pezeshkian said. This came after US President Donald Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that Iran had “lost” and “surrendered to Middle East neighbours.”
Kuwait on Sunday said it intercepted three ballistic missiles, while Saudi Arabia downed three more drones near Riyadh.
On the other hand, an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people and injured ten others on Sunday, as Israel said that it targeted Iranian commanders operating in the Lebanese capital.
Tehran oil facility in flames after Netanyahu’s ‘many surprises’ warning
The US and Israel late on Saturday targeted oil facilities in Iran, in a first since the conflict began last week. Flames were seen above an oil storage facility in Tehran as Israeli PM Netanyahu vowed of “many surprises” for the next phase of the conflict.
Israeli military confirmed the strike on the fuel storage facilities in Tehran, with a video accessed by the Associated Press showing the horizon glowing against the night sky in Tehran.
Israel says targeted Iran-linked commanders in Lebanon
Israel has continued its strikes on Lebanon, which was drawn into the conflict after Iran-backed Hezbollah launched attacks against Israel after the killing of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli strikes.
In a statement Sunday morning, the Israeli military said it targeted commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, AP reported.
Iran targets US Embassies in Gulf
Meanwhile, Iran is targeting embassies and diplomatic missions of the US in Gulf countries. A drone attack targeted Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter where the US Embassy and other foreign missions are located, the Saudi defense ministry said.
Apart from explosions in Oslo, the near the US embassyn Iraq’s Baghdad was hit by Katyusha rockets, Reuters reported, citing security sources.
‘We’re not looking to settle’: Trump
US President Trump said Saturday that the US has leverage over Iran and would not negotiate with the remaining Iranian leadership. “We’re not looking to settle,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “They’d like to settle. We’re not looking to settle,” he said, according to the AP report.
US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said that Iran had not seemed “very amenable” during negotiations before US and Israel launched strikes last week. “They told me and Jared, we’re not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn’t take militarily,” Witkoff said.
Flights diverted, strikes on Gulf countries continue | Latest developments in conflict
• Several airstrikes shook neighborhoods in Tehran’s east and southwest, with the Israeli military confirming a new wave of strikes in Iran’s capital city and other areas.
• Iran, too, fired more missiles toward Israel. The Israeli military has ordered residents across the country, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, to seek cover in shelters. Residents of northern Israel headed to shelters after air raid sirens sounded in the early hours of Sunday.
• Flights headed to the Saudi capital of Riyadh were diverted or are returning to their points of origin in the early hours of Sunday, according to data from Flightradar24. This came after the Saudi Defense Ministry said it was responding to drone attacks on Riyadh.
• Irbil International Airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region was targeted by a drone, killing one security personnel and wounding another person, AP cited the local governor as saying.
• Iran also struck a facility near a seaport in Bahrain, damaging shops and injuring one person. Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said missile fragments fell onto a road in Manama, injuring one person and causing damage to several shops.
• Multiple sites were struck in Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, with one person killed in the attacks, AP cited an official with one of the Kurdish Iranian dissident groups as saying.
• Sirens sounded several times across the UAE on Saturday, with the Dubai media office saying Saturday that falling shrapnel from interception of projectiles had caused minor damage to the facade of a tower in Dubai Marina.
• The death toll in Iran has mounted to 1,300 since the start of the conflict last week, Al Jazeera reported. Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Monday have killed at least 294 people, the country’s health ministry said. Another 1,023 in Lebanon have been wounded in the attacks.
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Mar 08, 2026 12:01:07 PM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Israel strikes airport in Iran’s Isfahan, destroys F14 fighter jets
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The Israeli military said its forces carried out air attacks Saturdayon an airport in Iran’s Isfahan, destroying F14 fighter jets there, Al Jazeera reported.
“Additionally, detection systems and air defense systems that posed a threat to Israeli Air Force aircraft were struck,” the statement on Telegram said.
Mar 08, 2026 11:48:23 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Bahrain says water desalination plant damaged in Iranian drone attack
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Bahrain has said a water desalination plant was damaged due to an Iranian drone attack, AFP news agency reported.
Mar 08, 2026 11:37:29 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Three people injured by falling missile fragments in Bahrain
US Iran war news LIVE updates: At least three people were injured and a university building in the city of Muharraq damaged following an Iranian attack.
The casualties were caused by falling missile debris, Bahrain’s ministry of interior said in a post on X.
Mar 08, 2026 11:31:12 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: US, Israel discuss sending special forces to seize Iran’s nuclear stockpile
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The United States and Israel are mulling over whether to send special forces to seize Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, according to a report by Axios.
The Axios report said it remains unclear whether the operation would involve American, Israeli, or joint forces, adding that this would be likely at a “later stage” after both countries decide that Iran can no longer mount a serious defence.
Mar 08, 2026 11:11:41 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: ‘Enemy misconceived mt words,’ says Iran President after Trump’s ‘surrender’ claim
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday said that his remarks had been “misinterpreted by the enemy that seeks to sow division with neighbours,” state TV reported.
“It has repeatedly been said we are brothers and must have good relations with neighbours. However, we are forced to retaliate to attacks but this does not mean we have a dispute with a (neighbouring) country or want to upset their people,” Pezeshkian said.
This came after US President Donald Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that Iran had “lost” and “surrendered to Middle East neighbours.”
Mar 08, 2026 10:27:30 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: US Defense Secretary issues ‘we will kill you’ warning
US Iran war news LIVE updates: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a warning on social media platform X, saying American forces would kill those who threaten its citizens.
“f you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation and we will kill you,” Hegseth said.
Mar 08, 2026 10:20:56 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Two Kuwait border personnel killed
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Two Kuwaiti border personnel were killed while on duty, the country’s interior ministry said. The two personnel were killed “at dawn”, Kuwait News Agency quoted the ministry as saying.
Mar 08, 2026 10:13:11 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iran launches new wave of strikes against US, Israel installations in West Asia
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a new wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and US assets in the Middle East, Iranian state media reported.
The Guards termed the latest attacks as the “27th wave of Operation True Promise”, and said it was targeting the US base in Kuwait’s Arifjan with precision-strike missiles.
Mar 08, 2026 10:11:08 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Gulf Cooperation Council terms strikes against Bahrain, Kuwait as ‘dangerous acts of aggression’
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said Iran’s attacks against Bahrain and Kuwait are “dangerous acts of aggression” that threaten regional security and stability.
GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi strongly condemned what he called Tehran’s “nefarious” attacks on the region, Al Jazeera reported. The GCC bloc is composed of six Gulf states: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
Mar 08, 2026 10:03:13 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iran’s warning after US, Israeli strikes hit oil depots, desalination plant
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi issued a warning after US and Israeli strikes targeted oil depots and a desalination plant in Iran.
“The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted,” Aragchi said in a post on X. “Attacking Iran’s infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran,” the minister said.
Mar 08, 2026 9:44:54 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iran death toll more than 1,300 since start of conflict
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The death toll in Iran has mounted to 1,300 since the start of the conflict last week, Al Jazeera reported.
About 100,000 have been displaced, with the war forcing many to flee their homes as the UN refugee agency reports a surge in urgent calls for assistance.
Mar 08, 2026 9:19:42 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Kuwait intercepts 3 missiles, efforts on to control fuel tank blaze near airport
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Kuwait on Sunday said its air defences had intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles, Al Jazeera reported.
It said firefighters were trying to control two blazes after drone attacks on fuel tanks at the Kuwait international airport.
Mar 08, 2026 9:17:37 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Saudi defences intercept three more drones near Riyadh
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The Saudi ministry of defence said it had foiled another attack by neutralising three more drones near the capital Riyadh.
This comes hours after the ministry announced thwarting a drone attack on Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter, where the US Embassy and other foreign missions are located. It reported downing at least 15 other drones.
Mar 08, 2026 9:15:03 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iran launches barrage of missiles toward Israel, Gulf countries
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Israel and Gulf countries reported missile and drone attacks from Iran. Saudi Arabia said its air defences had intercepted a drone attack targeting the diplomatic quarter in the capital Riyadh, reporting no casualties or damage.
Kuwait also said fuel tanks at the nation’s international airport were targeted by Iranian drones, AFP news agency reported.
Mar 08, 2026 9:03:04 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Israel continues to strike Lebanon, hotels targeted
US Iran war news LIVE updates: An Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, amid attacks on sites across southern Lebanon, the country’s health ministry said, according to AFP.
The Israeli military said it carried out a “precise strike” in Beirut targeting commanders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Mar 08, 2026 9:01:04 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: China says Middle East war ‘should never have happened’
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has said that the war in Middle East “should never have happened.”
Wang Yi said that “plotting” a regime change in Iran would not find popular support, and urged parties to return to the negotiating table. The minister also urged for an immediate halt to military operations, saying the sovereignty and security of Iran and other Gulf countries must be respected.
Mar 08, 2026 8:29:49 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Iran Guards say can fight ‘intense war’ for six months
US Iran war news LIVE updates: The Revolutionary Guards in a statement carried by the Fars news agency on Sunday said Iran can fight an intense war against the United States and Israel for at least six months.
“The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least a 6-month intense war at the current pace of operations,” Guards spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini said, AFP news agency reported citing Fars.
Mar 08, 2026 8:03:23 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Israeli strikes hit Tehran oil facility, light up night sky
US Iran war news LIVE: Israeli strikes hit an oil storage facility in Tehran as flames lit up the night sky in Iranian capital. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the week-old conflict.
Mar 08, 2026 7:52:22 AM IST
US Iran war news LIVE updates: Loud blasts heard near US embassy in Oslo
US Iran war news LIVE: Early on Sunday, a loud blast was heard near the US embassy in Oslo, Reuters reported citing Norwegian police. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast or who was involved, the Oslo police department said in a statement. “The police are in a dialogue with the embassy and there are no reports of any injured persons,” the statement said.