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response to the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei](/news/2026/2/28/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-the-leader-who-shaped-irans-defiance) in the first strikes on Tehran. Up until then, the Iran-backed, Lebanese-armed group had not attacked Israel since a November
attacks were launched from Gulf neighbours’ territory. - The US is continuing its naval blockade of Iranian ports despite the truce, a move Iran says undermines the ceasefire. - An adviser to Iran’s parliamentary speaker said
attacks, was unknown before the war against Iran, appearing for the first time in early March in a post on social media channels associated with Iran-backed Islamist militia in Iraq. A second post claimed
attacks on Lebanon on March 2 after the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in response to the US-Israel killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei two days earlier, the first
Iran’s hardliner-dominated parliament oppose any agreement that could signal weakness, disappoint [backers of the establishment on the streets](/news/2026/3/27/guns-in-the-streets-as-us-israel-intensify-month-long-attacks-across) and potentially invite future attacks. Mahdi Mohammadi, Ghalibaf’s strategic affairs adviser, said
attack on Hezbollah. The Iran-backed armed group denied "any connection" to the incident. It comes amid heightened tensions in southern Lebanon, where peacekeepers have faced growing risks since renewed fighting between Hezbollah and Israel
responsibility for the [devastating attacks](/opinions/2026/3/15/minab-when-the-worlds-most-precise-missile-chose-a-classroom) on the Shajareh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) elementary school in Minab, next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province. But evidence suggests
attack against the country. Earlier on Thursday, Trump said the [US military will](/news/2026/4/23/us-to-shoot-and-kill-iranian-boats-laying-mines-in-hormuz-trump-says) “shoot and kill” Iranian laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which could spark a response And oil prices are once
responsibility for an attack against a synagogue in North Macedonia last Sunday, and against a Jewish-owned restaurant in Munich on 10 April. It first claimed a series of attacks against Jewish targets in Holland
response to strikes launched by Hezbollah. This was after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran – prompting retaliation from Tehran against US allies in the Gulf, and from Iran's proxies, which includes
responsible for territorial defence, defence of Iran’s airspace and conventional warfare, and the IRGC, whose role goes beyond defence and includes protecting Iran’s political structure. The IRGC also controls Iran’s airspace
US attacks on Iran. Trump exploded on social media later that night in a lengthy post on Truth Social, [calling](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/13/donald-trump-pope-leo) the pope “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” and claiming
attacks on fundamental civil liberties in most nations. “Authoritarian practices have intensified worldwide”, the report reads, before running through abuses alleged in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe in 400 pages. Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Araghchi met Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and decried US and Israeli attacks on the country’s civilian sites, [including schools](/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement), cultural
attacks on Iran have killed at least 3,375 people, according to the Ministry of Health in Tehran. The US military has confirmed 14 combat-related deaths among its service members, with more than
attacks against Israel and US assets across the entire region. Iran also closed the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices soaring. Iran agreed to re-open the waterway as part of the two-week truce
Iran-allied attacks](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/us-contractors-stranded-iraq-iran), and one [employee was killed](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/us-defense-contractor-v2x-worker-killed-iraq) in a night-time drone attack in March. On 9 April, representatives of the US Department of State held a meeting
attacks are a “legitimate response to the enemy’s persistent violations of the ceasefire”, which it claims have exceeded 500 incidents. The Iran-aligned group said in a statement on Telegram on Sunday that
attack in the first days of the US-Israeli war against Iran, [France](https://www.theguardian.com/world/france), Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal scrambled to send assistance to the island. “What we did in Cyprus
response to Iran’s “premeditated attack” have been voiced repeatedly by Dr Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president. On Monday, Gargash said the GCC – the political bloc made up of the UAE, Saudi