Iran bombs U.S. allies across West Asia
INTERNATIONAL – ASIA
2 MARCH 2026
- Iran vowed revenge after the killing of its Supreme Leader, and traded strikes with Israel as part of a widening war prompted by a U.S. and Israeli bombardment a day earlier.
- U.S. President Donald Trump warned that any retaliation would only lead to further escalation.
- Iranian authorities say more than 200 people have been killed since the start of the U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior leaders.
- Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation while Israel pledged “non-stop” strikes against Iran’s leaders and military.
- In Israel, loud explosions caused by missile impacts or interceptions could be heard in Tel Aviv.
- Israel’s rescue services said nine people were killed and 28 wounded in a strike that hit a synagogue in the central town of Beit Shemesh, bringing the overall death toll in the country to 11.
- The U.S. military said three service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in the Iran operation.
- Mr. Trump also said that the strikes had sunk nine Iranian naval vessels and partially destroyed Iran’s navy headquarters.
- Shrapnel from Iranian attacks on Abu Dhabi killed two people, state media said, and debris from aerial interceptions caused fires at the city’s main port and on the facade of the Burj Al Arab hotel.
- Attacks also extended into Oman — Iran’s long-time interlocutor with the West that hadn’t been drawn into the fray previously.
