US & ‘Israel’ at war with Iran | Day 36 coverage
The 2026 Iran War began on February 28 when the United States and ‘Israel’ launched an operation dubbed Epic Fury by the US and Lion's Roar by ‘Israel’, unleashing nearly 900 airstrikes in 12 hours on Iranian missile systems, air defenses, nuclear facilities, military bases, and leadership targets.
Yemen’s Houthi movement entered the war early, launching missile and drone attacks toward ‘Israel’ and expanding the war beyond the Gulf and Levant theaters.
This direct assault followed years of shadow war, including the first-ever Iran-‘Israel’ missile exchanges in April and October 2024 and a limited 12-day war in June 2025 that damaged Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of top officials were killed in the opening salvo, while a US Tomahawk strike on a school adjacent to a naval base near Bandar Abbas killed about 170 civilians, mostly children.
Iran responded within hours by firing hundreds of ballistic missiles and launching thousands of drones at ‘Israel’, US bases in the Gulf, and targets in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait.
Tehran restricted passage through the Strait of Hormuz—through which 20% of global oil flows—disrupting shipping and spiking oil prices.
The retaliation reignited fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon, prompting ‘Israeli’ strikes there and spreading the conflict regionally while hitting civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, airports, and heritage sites.
Over the next five weeks, US-‘Israeli’ forces conducted sustained air campaigns that destroyed much of Iran’s air-defense network, missile production sites and navy assets.
Iran appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader, but pragmatic senior official Ali Larijani was assassinated in an ‘Israeli’ strike on March 17.
More than 80,000 civilian sites were hit, including 260 medical facilities and UNESCO-listed buildings, causing widespread blackouts, fuel shortages, toxic pollution, and over 2,000 total deaths across Iran, ‘Israel’, Lebanon, and Gulf states.
The war remained active in its fifth week with ongoing US-‘Israeli’ airstrikes on remaining Iranian targets and Iranian retaliatory barrages, including recent cluster-munition attacks on ‘Israel’ and a failed long-range missile attempt at Diego Garcia.
Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz reopens fully but has signaled possible winding down or deals, which Tehran denies pursuing.
VIDEO - Iranian missile hits industrial area in Negev
Direct hit by Iranian missile at an industrial in the Negev, southern ‘Israel’
Hebrew media: At least one person injured in Iranian missile attack on Tel Aviv area
Hebrew media reported on Saturday morning that at least one person was injured in an Iranian missile attack on the Tel Aviv area.
Iranian cluster munitions fall east of Tel Aviv: Hebrew media
Hebrew channel 12 reported that munitions from an Iranian missile equipped with a cluster warhead fell in the in Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv
Factory in Negev hit after Iranian missile barrage: Hebrew media
Hebrew media outlets reported that a site was struck in southern ‘Israel’ by an Iranian missile attack.
“Israel Hayom” said a factory in the Negev was hit, triggering a fire.
‘Israel’ detects missiles launched from Iran: military
The ‘Israeli’ military said Saturday morning it detected ballistic missiles launched from Iran.
“Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the statement said.
Sirens were sounded in southern ‘Israel’.
VIDEO - US fighter jets taking off from the USS Abraham Lincoln to strike Iran
The Pentagon releases images of US sailors conducting flight operations on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) during Operation Epic Fury, with fighter jets launching from the carrier.
Four injured in Bahrain from Iranian drone debris: interior ministry
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said Saturday morning that four people were injured and that houses damaged in the Sitra area after debris fell from the destruction of an Iranian drone.
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