2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran and elsewhere in region - News and Discussion

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Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool

Israel’s use of Tehran street cameras to help kill Iran’s supreme leader shows how everyday surveillance can turn into a wartime weapon.
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Hundreds of millions of cameras have been installed above shops, in homes and on street corners across the world, many connected to the internet and poorly secured. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled militaries and intelligence agencies to sift through vast amounts of surveillance footage and identify targets.

On Feb. 28, Israel vividly demonstrated the potential of such systems to be hacked and used against adversaries when Israel tracked down Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the help of Tehran’s own street cameras - despite repeated warnings that Iran’s surveillance systems had been compromised, according to interviews and an Associated Press review of leaked data, public statements and news reports.
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Trump says Iran talks going 'very well' as he extends pause on striking Iranian energy plants - follow live

Iran says it is waiting for Washington to respond to its conditions for a ceasefire, as Israel launches new strikes on Tehran and Beirut.
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Iran has 'legal right' to control Strait of Hormuz, official tells state media, as Israel kills navy chief​

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Iran says it has 'legal right' to control Strait of Hormuz in response to US peace plan - state mediapublished at 14:27
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While we wait to hear from the US president, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Tasnim News Agency says Tehran has responded to the US’s reported 15-point peace plan and is now awaiting a response.

Citing an "informed official", Tasnim reports that Iran's conditions are:

  • "Acts of aggression and assassination by the enemy must cease"
  • "Objective conditions must be established to ensure that war will not recur"
  • "Compensation and war reparations must be guaranteed and clearly determined"
  • "An end to hostilities must be implemented on all fronts and for all resistance groups involved in the conflict across the region”, referring to Iran's allies and proxies in the region


The official is also reported to have told Tasnim that Iran’s exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is the country's "natural and legal right".
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How a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly

The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.
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According to the NYT, citing people familiar with the matter, much of the US' presence in the middle east has been disrupted and degraded, forcing them to abandon bases and shelter troops in hotels and office buildings.
Iran has bombed U.S. bases across the Middle East in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli war, forcing many American troops to relocate to hotels and office spaces throughout the region, according to military personnel and American officials.
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So now much of the land-based military is, in essence, fighting the war while working remotely, with the exception of fighter pilots and crews operating and maintaining warplanes and conducting strikes.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has urged people to report these new locations as it hunts for the dispersed troops. U.S. military officials say that threat is not stopping the Pentagon from carrying out the war against Iran, which is in its fourth week.
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There were close to 40,000 U.S. troops in the region when the war started, and Central Command has dispersed thousands of them, some to as far away as Europe, American military officials said. But many have remained in the Middle East, although not on their original bases, military officials said.
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“Yes, we have the ability to set up expedient operation centers, but you’re absolutely going to lose capability,” said Master Sgt. Wes J. Bryant, a retired Special Operations targeting specialist in the U.S. Air Force.
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Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait.
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Iranian officials have even accused the U.S. military of using civilians as human shields by putting American troops in hotels.
“We are forced to identify and target the Americans,” the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a message to people in the region, according to Tasnim News Agency. “Therefore, it is better not to shelter them in hotels and to stay away from their locations.”
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Iran’s Attacks Force U.S. Troops to Work Remotely - The New York Times

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Israeli outlet Ynet, the digital version of Yedioth Ahronoth, quotes IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir in light of the recent struggle of the IDF on all fronts:

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אזהרת הרמטכ"ל בקבינט: "מרים 10 דגלים אדומים - צה"ל יקרוס לתוך עצמו"

רב-אלוף אייל זמיר התריע בפני הממשלה - אחרי אישור הכשרת מאחזים נוספים - כי הסד"כ שנדרש מהצבא רק "הולך וגדל" בזמן שהוא פועל בשורת זירות לחימה פעילות, נאלץ להתמודד עם פשיעה לאומנית משתוללת - והממשלה לא מעבירה חוק גיוס, חוק מילואים והארכת שירות החובה. "המילואימניקים לא יחזיקו מעמד"
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On the note of troops, it's alleged that Trump is seemingly convinced that a few thousand US troops will be able to pressure Iran into surrender.
An official from one of the countries mediating between the US and Iran tells The Times of Israel that US President Donald Trump appears to be leaning toward ordering a major US ground operation against Iran, with Washington convinced Tehran will buckle under such military pressure.
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For context, Iran fought Iraq to a stand still in the Iran-Iraq War, one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history which saw large scale usage of chemical weapons and large scale infantry charges remniscent of WW1. Both sides suffered casualties in the hundreds of thousands due to the fierce fighting and neither side being willing to give up ground.
 
EmoBirb said:
It occurs that things on the front with Lebanon are going as bad, if not worse, than with the front with Iran:
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Successful Trophy intercepts.
The IDF reported no casualties related to these incidents.
Yesterday 1 soldier was killed and 4 wounded in a missile attack on a Merkava 4M-400 tank of the 77th battalion, 7th brigade. The 1st missile was reportedly shot down by Trophy, and the second hit the tank.
 
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Trump says Iran talks going 'very well' as he extends pause on striking Iranian energy plants - follow live

Iran says it is waiting for Washington to respond to its conditions for a ceasefire, as Israel launches new strikes on Tehran and Beirut.
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Three charts that are warning signs flashing for Trump on Iran war

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Australia fuel crisis: Panic buying prompts PM to reassure nation over fuel supply

Anthony Albanese says nation's supply remains "secure" amid reports of panic buying and shortages.
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American troops forced to withdraw from Middle East bases​

(Daily Telegraph)
Iranian air strikes have forced American soldiers to evacuate several bases in the Middle East.

Troops are now working from nearby hotels and office spaces, which could endanger both themselves and civilians.

Iran has struck 104 American and regional bases, according to a rough analysis of geolocated strikes by Fabian Hinz, an open-source analyst.

American satellite firms have delayed the release of imagery by at least 14 days, making it hard to assess the damage.

But The New York Times reported that many of the 13 American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had become close to uninhabitable as a result of persistent strikes.

Of all the bases, Ali Al Salem in Kuwait has suffered most hits – a total of 23 – according to Mr Hinz. Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring follow, with 17 and six geolocated strikes respectively.

Satellite imagery from these three bases shows damage to hangars, communications infrastructure, satellite equipment, fuel stores, and – following a strike on Ali Al Salem on Wednesday – a large warehouse.

Iran has hit bases in the UAE 17 times, Bahrain 16 times, Iraq seven times, Qatar six times, Saudi Arabia six times and Jordan twice, according to Mr Hinz’s “conservative” assessment.

A study by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies estimated that attacks in the first days of the war caused at least $800m (£600m) of damage, with hits on an American Thaad (Terminal high altitude area defence) radar in Jordan and other infrastructure elsewhere in the region.

In Saudi Arabia, at the Prince Sultan Air Base, satellite imagery shows a hangar with a pitched roof reduced to rubble.

In Qatar, at Al Udeid Air Base – the largest American base in the Middle East – imagery shows the destruction of multiple antennae and satellite arrays.

In the UAE, at Al Dhafra Air Base, a large hole has been ploughed through a building apparently used to house troops, with a large blast radius of dust.

Iranian sources claimed the attack was carried out by a Khorramshahr-4 missile, the most advanced in Iran’s arsenal.

On Monday, Centcom (Central Command), which is responsible for American forces in the Middle East, put out an urgent call for contractors to deliver transportable hardened bunkers to Jordan.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted radar and air defence facilities in an attempt to “blind” Washington.

ran has struck four sites hosting components for the American-made Thaad system, which tracks and intercepts incoming missiles, Mr Hinz said.

An early-warning radar in Qatar and other radar installations across the region were also hit. That may have made it harder to intercept Iranian missiles.

Although the number of Iran’s launches has fallen sharply, more are penetrating US and Israeli air defences – which face acute shortages of interceptor missiles, according to a study published on Wednesday by the Royal United Services Institute think tank.

Kuwait is the country in the region that has been hit most, with 50 confirmed impacts, according to Mr Hinz.

That may reflect its proximity to Iran, but it also has less advanced air defence systems than countries such as the UAE and Qatar.

A drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait on March 1 killed six American soldiers.

The US has struck 10,000 regime targets in its air campaign, according to an update on Wednesday by Adml Brad Cooper, the commander of Centcom.

“We have damaged or destroyed over two-thirds of Iran’s missile, drone and naval production facilities and shipyards,” he said.
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EmoBirb said:
Israel bombed the Pakistani embassy and residence of the ambassador in Iran
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Please use words like "allegedly" or "reportedly" for news items of dubious origin. This specifically was debunked. The Pakistani embassy was not struck, but was in proximity to it.

It is understandable to post sources "from the other side", but there is no need to quote the fake news ones. There are credible sources on all sides.

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Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israeli strikes on Iran will "intensify."

“The prime minister and I warned the Iranian terror regime to stop the missile fire toward the civilian population in Israel. Despite the warnings, the fire continues, and therefore IDF strikes in Iran will intensify and expand to additional targets and domains that assist the regime in building and operating weapons against Israeli civilians," he says during an assessment with military officials."
 

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Evacuation warning in an industrial zone in Arak

The IDF issues an "urgent warning" to Iranians in the central city of Arak, ahead of planned airstrikes.
"Urgent warning to all individuals located in the northwest of the city of Arak and those located in the Kheirabad industrial area in the Arak region.
In the coming hours, the IDF will operate in the area, as it has in recent days across Iran, to strike military infrastructure of the Iranian regime," says the IDF's Persian-language spokesman, Lt. Col. (res.) Kamal Penhasi in a statement.
"For your safety and well-being, we ask that you immediately leave the area indicated on the map," he adds.
 

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On March 27 local time, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran issued a statement saying that the Strait of Hormuz is currently closed, and any attempt to pass through the strait will be severely attacked. The statement also said that any vessels traveling to or from 'ports of allies and supporters of the US-Israel hostile forces,' regardless of their destination or route, are prohibited from passing. On the 26th, Iran's Tasnim News Agency quoted an Iranian military source as saying that if the United States wants to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz through military action, Iran is prepared and will continue to blockade the strait. Iran has mobilized more than one million combat personnel, ready for ground combat with the United States.
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