{"id":326063,"date":"2026-03-07T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/326063\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:24:08","slug":"live-israel-launches-broader-attacks-on-tehran-as-war-goes-into-eighth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/326063\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Israel launches broader attacks on Tehran as war goes into eighth day"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Issued on: 07\/03\/2026 – 03:04Modified: 07\/03\/2026 – 04:06<\/p>\n

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Plumes of smoke rise as strikes hit the city during the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Friday night, March 6, 2026. \u00a9 Vahid Salemi, AP <\/p>\n

\n Israel carried out a wave of \u201cbroad-scale\u201d strikes on targets in Tehran on Saturday, following Iranian missile launches towards Israel. Explosions were reported in Tel Aviv, but emergency services said there were no casualties, and residents were allowed to leave shelters. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates. <\/p>\n

07\/03\/2026 – 03:59US considers lifting sanctions on Russian oil amid Middle East crisis<\/p>\n

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that his government was considering lifting sanctions on more Russian oil, a day after it temporarily authorised India to buy from Moscow as global oil prices surged.<\/p>\n

The US-Israel war on Iran and Tehran\u2019s retaliatory attacks across the Gulf region have disrupted the world\u2019s energy and transport sectors, virtually halting activity in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Crude soared 8.5 per cent on Friday and was up nearly 30 per cent for the week after President Donald Trump said only the \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d of Iran would end the Middle East war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may unsanction other Russian oil,\u201d Bessent told Fox Business on Friday.<\/p>\n

07\/03\/2026 – 03:58Israeli military says responding to Iran missile attack<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said that air defences were responding to an Iranian missile attack on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Forces had \u201cidentified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,\u201d the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Air raid alerts across the country\u2019s north were lifted several minutes later.<\/p>\n

07\/03\/2026 – 03:08US approves $151.8m emergency munitions sale to Israel<\/p>\n

The US State Department said on Friday it has made a determination approving a possible foreign military sale to Israel of munitions and munitions support worth $151.8 million, without congressional review.<\/p>\n

Israel has requested to buy 12,000 BLU-110A\/B general-purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies, the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that an emergency existed requiring the immediate sale to Israel. The announcement comes amid the ongoing US and Israel war against Iran.<\/p>\n

07\/03\/2026 – 03:07Trump calls Iran ‘easy’ compared to paying college athletes<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump convened a roundtable of experts on Friday that included former Alabama football coach Nick Saban, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua.<\/p>\n

At the end of the event, a reporter started to ask about Iran and the president interrupted: \u201cThat\u2019s an easy problem compared to what we\u2019re doing here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw what was happening with college sports. And it doesn\u2019t sound very important compared to what\u2019s happening in Iran and other places,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it is very important to me. And if I can get it done, I\u2019ll get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

07\/03\/2026 – 03:03Israel reports no casualties after renewed Tehran strikes<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s emergency services, the Magen David Adom, said it received no reports of casualties after the barrage of strikes.<\/p>\n

The military issued a statement saying people were free to leave their shelters \u201cin all areas of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

07\/03\/2026 – 03:03IDF launches fresh strikes on Iranian capital<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has begun a broad-scale wave of strikes\u201d on government targets in the Iranian capital, an Israeli military statement said.<\/p>\n

The IDF said earlier it had detected another round of Iranian missile fire headed towards Israel.<\/p>\n

A series of explosions were heard in the Israeli commercial hub of Tel Aviv following the Iranian launches.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s key developments: <\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump demanded\u00a0“unconditional surrender” as requirement for deal with Iran.<\/p>\n

Israel launched air strikes on Tehran, as well as on several towns in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

A Pakistani business owner who attempted to hire hitmen to kill a US politician was convicted on Friday in a trial highlighting alleged Iran-backed plotting on American soil.<\/p>\n

\u2060A \u2060spokesman \u200bfor \u200bIran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards challenged\u00a0\u200cTrump \u2060to \u200cdeploy US naval vessels to \u2060escort oil tankers through \u200bthe \u200cStrait of Hormuz<\/p>\n

(FRANCE 24 with Reuters, AP and AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home Middle East Live Issued on: 07\/03\/2026 – 03:04Modified: 07\/03\/2026 – 04:06 Plumes of smoke rise as strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90432,22892,85,87,46,88,47,2899,43,2586],"class_list":{"0":"post-326063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-air-strikes","9":"tag-drones","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-lebanon","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}