Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs Al-Jamous neighbourhood on March 6, 2026. (Photo by FADEL itani / AFP)
US-Iran war highlights: The United States is deploying additional soldiers and warships in the Middle East two weeks into the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, several reports said on Friday. The Wall Street Journal citing US officials said USS Tripoli and its attached Marines were en route to the region. The New York Times reported that around 2,500 Marines aboard as many as three ships were headed for the Middle East….Read More
A huge explosion rocked a central square in Tehran hours after the Iranian government held a rally in support of the Palestinians and call for Israel’s demise. The fresh blast in the Iranian capital comes after Israel warning that it would target central Tehran, Associated Press reported.
The explosion rocked the Ferdowsi Square area, where thousands had gathered for an annual Quds Day rally in which they chanted “death to Israel” and “death to America.”
Meanwhile, several blasts were also heard in Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv, AFP reported, following a warning from the military that missiles had been fired from Iran.
“The IDF (military) identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the Israeli army said.
Several huge explosions were heard across central Tehran on Friday, the state media reported. It also added that the strikes had hit an area not far from where a pro-government demonstration was being held.
Crowds gathered in Tehran and other major cities to mark Quds Day, the last Friday of Ramadan, in support of the Palestinian cause.
US President Donald Trump issued a new threat online to Iran, writing: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.”
Trump made the post on Friday on his Truth Social website, saying that “Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”
“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them,” Trump wrote. “What a great honor it is to do so!”
US aircraft down in Iraq
A US military KC-135 aircraft on Thursday went down in Iraq, the Central Command said in a statement. The US military said all six crew members of the refueling aircraft were dead. The crash brings the US death toll in Operation Epic Fury to at least 13 service members, with the seven others killed in combat.
Iran’s new Supreme Leader defiant
Iran’s new leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, issued his first public statements Thursday, resolving to keep fighting, promising more pain for Gulf Arab states and threatening to open “other fronts” in a war that has already disrupted world energy supplies, the global economy and international travel.
The stance revealed by the Supreme Leader came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s attacks were creating conditions for the Iranian population to topple the government.
“It is in your hands,” Netanyahu said at a news conference, addressing the Iranian people. “We are creating the optimal conditions for the fall of the regime.”
Since the start of the war, US and Israeli strikes have targeted security checkpoints in Iran to undermine the government’s ability to suppress dissent, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, the US-based independent monitoring group known as ACLED.
Saudi Arabia intercepts drones
Saudi Arabia intercepted dozens of drones entering its airspace, the defence ministry said Friday, as Iran carries out attacks on oil-rich Gulf countries in response to US-Israeli strikes.
“Twelve drones were intercepted and destroyed after entering Saudi airspace,” a ministry spokesperson posted on X, after authorities reported at least 16 other drones were also shot down.
Oil prices down
Oil prices dropped on Friday morning after the US issued a 30-day license for countries to buy Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea, easing supply concerns.
Brent futures dropped 71 cents, or 0.71%, to $99.75 a barrel by 0123 GMT, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 88 cents, or 0.92%, to $94.85.
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Mar 14, 2026 6:15:42 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump seems to have changed his mind in less than 24 hours
US President Donald Trump had rebuffed questions about the US potentially seizing Kharg Island just on Thursday, saying it wasn’t “high on the list”.
In an interview with Fox News radio, Trump was asked if he had any plans to take the island given its vital role in Iranian oil exports.
“It’s not high on the list,” Trump said. “It’s one of so many different things, and I can change my mind in seconds.”
The question seemed to annoy Trump, who chided Fox reporter Brian Kilmeade.
“Who would ask a question like that and what fool would answer it?” the president said. “Let’s say I was gonna do it or let’s say I wasn’t gonna do it, why would I tell you?”
Mar 14, 2026 5:26:49 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Qatar evacuated parts of Doha, report says
US-Iran war live updates: Qatari authorities have evacuated parts of Doha’s Msheireb district, which includes government offices and a Google office, AFP cited witnesses as saying. The witnesses also said authorities evacuated parts of Doha’s education city, which is home to branch campuses of six US universities.
The evacuation orders come even as Qatar’s interior ministry said authorities were evacuating a “number of specified areas as a temporary precautionary measure.”
Mar 14, 2026 5:23:57 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US hits Iran’s Kharg Island, Trump says ‘most powerful’ in Middle East history
US-Iran war live updates: US President Donald Trump said the CENTCOM carried out strikes in Iran’s Kharg Island even as he warned Tehran against blocking Strait of Hormuz. Trump said that while the US carried out the “most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East”, he chose to leave the oil infrastructure on the Kharg Island intact. Read More
Mar 14, 2026 5:10:08 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Five US Air Force refueling planes hit in Iranian strike on Saudi base
US-Iran war live updates: Five US Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reported citing US officials. The planes, which were recently hit by Iranian missile, were damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired, the report said. There were no casualties in the strikes.
Mar 14, 2026 4:52:45 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says US will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz
US-Iran war live updates: US President Donald Trump said on Friday the US would soon begin escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz to protect them from Iranian attack.
Trump issued a temporary waiver for some purchases of sanctioned Russian oil, a move that drew criticism from US allies in Europe for potentially helping Russia fund its war with Ukraine.
Asked when the US Navy will start escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, Trump told reporters on Friday, “It will happen soon.”
Mar 14, 2026 3:28:37 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: All 6 crew members on US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, says US military
US-Iran war live updates: The US military on Friday said all six crew members of the refueling aircraft died in the crash. US Central Command said the crash in western Iraq on Thursday followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in “friendly airspace” and that the other plane landed safely. The crash brings the death toll on the US side to at least 13 soldiers, with the seven others killed in combat.
Mar 14, 2026 3:12:59 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran launches fresh missiles at Israel
US-Iran war live updates: Iran on Saturday launched fresh rounds of missiles towards Israel, AFP cited state media as saying. The Israeli military said it identified missiles fired from Iran, adding: “Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat.” Meanwhile, Israeli shells struck UN forces base in southern Lebanon.
Mar 14, 2026 2:24:10 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US sending 2,500 Marines, ships to Mideast, reports say
US-Iran war live updates: The United States is deploying additional Marines and ships to the Middle East even as the conflict continues with Iran for a second week, several reports said on Friday.
The Wall Street Journal citing US officials said USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are heading to the region. The New York Times reported that 2,500 Marines aboard as many as three ships were headed for the region.
The Wall Street Journal said the request for the additional Marines was made by US Central Command, which is responsible for US troops in the Middle East, and approved by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth.
Mar 14, 2026 1:01:55 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US sending 2,500 soldiers, warship to Middle East
US-Iran war live updates: US military has announced sending around 2,500 Marines, at least one extra warship to Middle East, Associated Press reported quoting source.
Mar 14, 2026 12:47:10 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Hezbollah leader says Israeli threats to assassinate him are ‘worthless’
US-Iran war live updates: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has said that the the Israeli threats to assassinate him were ‘worthless’. “We have prepared ourselves for a long confrontation and they will be surprised in the field”, he said in a speech on Friday. The statement comes after Israel launched an offensive against the Iran-backed group after it opened fire on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme leader.
Mar 14, 2026 12:16:45 AM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US announces $10 million reward for info on Mojtaba Khamenei, top Iranian officials
US-Iran war live updates: The US Department of State has announced a $10 million reward for information about Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and other top officials. The list also includes Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and Minister of Intelligence and Security Esmail Khatib.
“These individuals command and direct various elements of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which plans, organizes and executes terrorism around the world,” the State Department said, according to AFP.
Mar 13, 2026 11:51:09 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Huge blast in Tehran hours after pro-govt rally
US-Iran war live updates: A large blast rocked a central square in Iran’s capital Tehran where thousands gathered on Friday for an annual state-organised rally to support the Palestinians and call for Israel’s demise. The attack comes amid Israel’s warning that it would target the area in central Tehran. There were no reports of casualties.
Mar 13, 2026 11:23:58 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran plane leaves India with sailors, bodies from IRIS Dena sunk in US attack, says report
US-Iran war live updates: An aircraft carrying sailors from an Iranian naval vessel and bodies of crew members killed during US attack on IRIS Dena departed from India late on Friday. The aircraft, arranged by Iran, first took off from Sri Lanka carrying the bodies of 84 Iranian soldiers killed in a US submarine attack off Sri Lanka’s coast last week, Reuters reported.
Reuters, citing an Indian official, said that the flight then landed in Kochi and departed with sailors from another Iranian vessel. On February 28, India had given docking permission to Iranian ship IRIS Lavan.
The plane then departed with sailors from the Iranian vessel and some Iranian tourists stranded in India, the official reportedly said. India is yet to officially react to the development.
Mar 13, 2026 10:55:21 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran military says destroyed 111 drones since start of Mideast war
US-Iran war live updates: Iran military on Friday said that it destroyed 111 drones since the start of Middle East war. It also saod that dozens of its fighter jets carried out wide-scale, intelligence-guided strikes in western and central Iran, targeting over 150 military sites belonging to the Islamic Republic throughout Friday, Iran International reported.
Mar 13, 2026 10:37:01 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Pakistan denies reports of Islamabad airspace closure
US-Iran war live updates: Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) on Friday clarified that reports circulating about the closure of Islamabad’s airspace are baseless.
Flight operations at Islamabad International Airport are continuing without interruption and all flights are operating according to schedule, it said.
Mar 13, 2026 10:21:31 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran’s internet blackout lasts over 14 days
US-Iran war live updates: Iran’s latest internet blackout has lasted more than 14 days, connectivity monitor Netblocks said Friday.
The nature of the limits on internet activity shows “this is a government-imposed measure” and not the result of damage from US and Israeli airstrikes, Netblocks research chief Isik Mater told AFP.
“It is a deliberate shutdown imposed by the authorities to suppress the flow of information and prevent further dissent,” said Raha Bahreini, Iran researcher at Amnesty International.
Mar 13, 2026 10:04:32 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Israeli military says carried out 7,600 strikes in Iran, 1,100 in Lebanon
US-Iran war live updates: The Israeli military said on Friday it had carried out around 7,600 strikes in Iran and 1,100 in Lebanon since launching its joint operation with the United States against Tehran.
The military said that some 2,000 of the strikes had targeted “headquarters and assets of the Iranian terror regime”, and roughly 4,700 were against the Islamic republic’s missile program.
Mar 13, 2026 9:44:58 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Smoke seen rising near Tel Aviv after missile strike from Iran
US-Iran war live updates: Smoke could be seen rising from two locations around Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv on Friday, AFP journalists said, after blasts were heard following a warning that missiles were fired from Iran.
Israel’s first responders said they had “searched locations where reports were received; no casualties were located”.
An AFP journalist at the scene saw thick black smoke billowing into the sky from what appeared to be a burning warehouse at one of the locations near a motorway.
Mar 13, 2026 9:26:15 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says Iranians in US “under watch” amid conflict with Tehran
US-Iran war live updates: President Donald Trump said the US has Iranians who are residing in the country “under watch” amid new concerns about the potential for domestic terrorism during the war with Iran.
“We’re watching them very, very carefully. We have them under watch now,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News Radio.
Mar 13, 2026 9:15:28 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Lebanon says Israeli strikes since March 2 have killed 773 people
US-Iran war live updates: Israeli strikes have killed at least 773 people since March 2, the Lebanese health ministry said on Friday, as Israel vowed that Lebanon will pay an “increasing price” in damage to infrastructure.
“The total number of martyrs from March 2 to March 13 reached 773, and the number of wounded reached 1,933” including 103 children, the ministry said in its daily update.
Mar 13, 2026 9:07:29 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says Russia’s Putin helping Iran in war ‘a little bit’
US-Iran war live updates: US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Friday he suspected Russian leader Vladimir Putin was aiding Iran in the war against the United States and Israel.
“I think he might be helping him a little bit, yeah, I guess. And he probably thinks we’re helping Ukraine, right?” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Radio.
Mar 13, 2026 9:05:34 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran Guards say launched missile attacks on Israel with Hezbollah
US-Iran war live updates: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Friday said that it had launched fresh missile attacks on Israel with Hezbollah.
Earlier, several blasts were heard after air raid sirens sounded in Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv, AFP reported, following a warning from the military that missiles had been fired from Iran.
Mar 13, 2026 8:59:26 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Air raid sirens in Tel Aviv after warning Iranian missiles fired
US-Iran war live updates: Several blasts were heard Friday after air raid sirens sounded in Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv, AFP journalists said, following a warning from the military that missiles had been fired from Iran.
“The IDF (military) identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the Israeli army said.
Mar 13, 2026 8:41:06 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says US does not need Ukraine’s help with drone defense
US-Iran war live updates: US President Donald Trump said the United States does not need help with drone defense when asked whether Ukraine was helping providing such assistance, speaking in an interview on Fox News Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show” that aired on Friday.
Mar 13, 2026 8:24:54 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says Iran government will fall, ‘but maybe not immediately’
US-Iran war live updates: President Donald Trump voiced confidence that the Iranian people would rise up to replace their government following American and Israeli military strikes, but added in an interview aired Friday that it may not happen straight away.
“I really think that’s a big hurdle to climb for people that don’t have weapons. I think it’s a very big hurdle… It’ll happen, but it probably will be, maybe not immediately,” Trump told Fox News Radio.
Mar 13, 2026 8:08:26 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: UAE minister says ‘difficult to talk about mediation when under attack’
US-Iran war live updates: A senior UAE minister Lana Nusseibeh on Friday said that Iran must halt attacks on neighboring countries before any mediation efforts can begin, expressing confidence the conflict would eventually end through diplomacy, Iran International reported.
“It is difficult to talk about mediation when under attack,” UAE Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh said.
Mar 13, 2026 7:56:02 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: IndiGo introduces fuel charge on domestic, international routes amid Middle East crisis
US-Iran war live updates: IndiGo is introducing a fuel charge on domestic and international routes, effective 00:01hrs on 14th March, 2026. This measure is taken due to the significant surge in fuel prices following the ongoing geopolitical issues in the Middle East.
Mar 13, 2026 7:46:39 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Explosions heard in Dubai, defence ministry says dealing with missile threat
US-Iran war live updates: An explosion was reportedly heard in Dubai on Friday, an AFP correspondent reported, as the interior ministry sent phone alerts warning of “potential missile threats”.
“Air defence systems are currently dealing with a missile threat,” the defence ministry later said.
Mar 13, 2026 7:33:20 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Lebanese president says no Israeli reply on offer to negotiate in Hezbollah war
US-Iran war live updates: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Friday he had not received a response to his offer to negotiate directly with Israel to try to halt its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Iran-backed Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes.
Mar 13, 2026 7:16:16 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: UN says helping some migrants leave Iran
US-Iran war live updates: The UN migration agency said on Friday it was helping some vulnerable migrants caught up in the Middle East war to leave Iran and received requests to assist hundreds of others.
The International Organization for Migration said migrants in Iran were highly vulnerable amid heavy bombardment and mass displacement, lacking support structures relied on by Iranian nationals.
Mar 13, 2026 7:04:17 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says US would escort ships in Strait of Hormuz ‘if needed’
US-Iran war live updates: President Donald Trump said the United States would escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz if needed, adding that the US would strike Iran “very hard over the next week.” Trump said this in a Fox News interview that aired on Friday
Asked about helping oil tankers pass through the key shipping strait, Trump said: “We would do it if we needed to. But, you know, hopefully things are going to go very well.”
Mar 13, 2026 6:53:03 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Strait of Hormuz ‘tactically complex environment,’ says top US general
US-Iran war live updates: The Strait of Hormuz is a “tactically complex environment,” top US military officer General Dan Caine said Friday, acknowledging the difficulty in acting on plans to escort traffic safely through the strategic waterway.
The Strait of Hormuz has become a flashpoint in the current conflict between US, Israel and Iran with Tehran claiming control over it and intensifying strikes on ships.
Mar 13, 2026 6:46:41 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Russian nuclear official says no radiation changes seen in Iran
US-Iran war live updates: Russia’s top nuclear official said on Friday that no changes in radiation levels have been recorded following strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the war launched against it by the United States and Israel, state news agency RIA reported.
It was not immediately clear which strikes were being referred to in the RIA report citing Alexei Likhachev, head of state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
Mar 13, 2026 6:37:42 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Israeli Defence Minister warns Lebanon will suffer ‘increased damages’ amid strikes on Hezbollah
US-Iran war live updates: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Friday said Lebanon will suffer increasing damage to its infrastructure as Israel targets Hezbollah, after the military destroyed a bridge over the southern Litani river.
“This is just the beginning and the Lebanese government and the State of Lebanon will pay an increasing price in damage to Lebanese national infrastructure used by Hezbollah terrorists due to terrorist activity and launches at the State of Israel,” Katz said at a meeting with army top brass.
Mar 13, 2026 6:28:26 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Macron says France’s position in Middle East remains defensive
US-Iran war live updates: President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday a drone attack in Northern Iraq against French soldiers was “unacceptable” and that France’s position in the region was “defensive”.
One French soldier was killed and six others were wounded after a drone attack in northern Iraq that President Emmanuel Macron earlier had said was said was unacceptable and unjustified.
Mar 13, 2026 6:18:26 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: What US defense secretary said on Iran school strike
US-Iran war live updates: US Defence secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that the US Central Command has designated an officer outside of the command to complete an investigation on a strike on Iranian school.
Mar 13, 2026 6:16:05 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Israeli warplanes drop leaflets over Beirut, causese panic
US-Iran war live updates: Israeli planes dropping propaganda leaflets over Beirut on Friday caused a number of loud booms in the sky, terrifying residents of the capital.
AFP correspondents in Beirut heard four successive booms at short intervals, before clouds of paper leaflets appeared high in the air. State media said that the noise was “caused by Israeli aircraft flying at a very low altitude and dropping leaflets over a number of areas, specifically in Verdun, Hamra, and Ain al-Mreisseh”, western Beirut neighbourhoods.
Mar 13, 2026 6:11:57 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: No evidence Iran has mined Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon’s Hegseth says
US-Iran war live updates: There is no clear evidence that Iran has placed mines in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a news briefing on Friday.
A few days earlier, President Donald Trump reportedly informed that there were mine-laying boats in the Strait of Hormuz and added that the US had hit 10 of them in the last few hours.
Mar 13, 2026 6:07:00 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Hegseth says denying Iran nuclear weapons ‘core mission’
US-Iran war live updates: US defense secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that denying Iran nuclear weapons is the core mission of the US military operations.
He also said that US and Israel have struck more than 15,000 targets since the start of the Iran war late last month.
Mar 13, 2026 6:01:59 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US defense secy says will not allow Strait of Hormuz to ‘remain contested’
US-Iran war live updates: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that they will not allow Strait of Hormuz to remain contested as Iran claims control over it.
Hegseth also said that they have a plan for every option related to it and that the only thing preventing traffic in Hormuz is Iran’s attacks.
Mar 13, 2026 5:53:34 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US, Israel hit more than 15,000 targets in Iran war, says Pentagon
US-Iran war live updates: The United States and Israel have struck more than 15,000 targets since the start of the Iran war late last month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.
“Between our air force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck. That’s well over 1,000 a day,” Hegseth told a news conference, adding that Friday would mark the highest volume of strikes yet in the campaign.
Mar 13, 2026 5:51:54 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Friday will bring the greatest number of US strikes on Iran yet, says Hegseth
US-Iran war live updates: Friday will see the highest number of U.S. strikes so far against Iranian targets, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told a briefing.
Hegseth also said that Iranian leaders are moving to bunkers and civilian areas, adding that Donald Trump ‘holds the cards’ in conflict between US and Iran.
Mar 13, 2026 5:49:22 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: US defense secy says new supreme leader likely ‘wounded and disfigured’
US-Iran war live updates: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that the new supreme leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khameinei, is likely wounded and disfigured.’ He also said that today will be the ‘highest volume of US strikes on Iran.
Mar 13, 2026 5:43:04 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran residents live in fear and isolation as bombs strike without warning
US-Iran war live updates: Fierce US-Israeli bombardment of Iran’s capital, Tehran, now at the end of its second week, has left residents in a state of shock. From central historic quarters to upscale northern areas, bombs are shaking the city day and night, with no sirens or warning systems to alert the public.
“The psychological pressure is real,” an athlete, who lives in a northern area of the capital, told AP. “I could barely breathe and had to go buy an inhaler,” another 54-year-old Tehran resident who is a human-rights activist said.
Mar 13, 2026 5:36:37 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran launches fresh wave of missiles at Israel
US-Iran war live updates: Iran launched a fresh salvo of missiles at Israel on Friday, according to state television, on the 14th day of the Middle East war sparked by US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic.
Without providing details, state television announced “the start of a new wave of Iranian missile strikes on the occupied territories”, a reference to Israel, which Tehran does not recognise.
Mar 13, 2026 5:27:05 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: IAEA trying to arrange new deal between Iran,US
US-Iran war live updates: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi said on Friday that the IAEA is trying to arrange a new nuclear deal between the US and Iran, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Grossi said he hopes for the resumption of negotiations on a long-term solution to the Iranian nuclear programme.
Mar 13, 2026 5:21:30 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: IAEA chief says hoping to resume talks aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme
US-Iran war live updates: International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi on Friday said that the organisation is hoping to resume talks aimed at reaching a long-term resolution of Iran’s nuclear programme.
Mar 13, 2026 5:13:32 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Top Iran officials attend Tehran march despite attacks
US-Iran war live updates: Senior Iranian officials including the president on Friday openly attended a mass rally in Tehran despite Israeli-US attacks, with national security chief Ali Larijani dismissing the latest strikes on the capital as being “out of desperation”.
State TV showed President Masoud Pezeshkian greeting supporters and even having selfies taken on the rain-spattered streets of Tehran at annual Quds Day rally in support of the Palestinian cause.
Mar 13, 2026 5:11:05 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Trump says ‘will hit Iran very hard over the next week
US-Iran war live updates: Trump on Friday said that he will be hitting Iran very hard over the next week. “We’re going to be hitting them very hard over the next week,” he added in the interview with Fox’s Brian Kilmeade that aired in part on its “Fox & Friends” program.
His comments came as a strike was reported near a rally in Tehran and Iran vowed to teach an ‘unforgettable lesson’ to its enemies.
Mar 13, 2026 5:07:38 PM IST
US-Iran war live updates: Iran vows to teach ‘unforgettable lesson’ to enemies after strike near rally
US-Iran war live updates: Iran vowed on Friday to inflict what its foreign ministry spokesman described as an “unforgettable lesson” on its enemies in the United States and Israel, as the Middle East war neared the two-week mark.
“We cannot accept that they talk about dialogue and ceasefire every now and then and after that we face the repetition of these crimes and war. Our armed forces are very determined to firmly teach the enemy an unforgettable lesson,” Esmaeil Baqaei said.
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