Dozens reportedly killed in Tehran as Trump threatens Iran with more ‘death’ (VIDEOS)
A new wave of US-Israeli strikes has killed at least 40 people in Tehran, with the overall civilian death toll in the conflict on the Iranian side exceeding 1,300, according to local media and officials.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iran “twenty times harder” if it continues to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the strikes.
He also said Iran “made a big mistake” in selecting Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has threatened to assassinate anyone who takes the post.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held a phone call with Trump on Monday, said the escalating conflict risks entirely choking off the region’s oil exports through the now “de-facto closed” Strait of Hormuz. But will the Iran war make Russia richer?
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps continues to block the Strait of Hormuz – but has reportedly promised full freedom of passage to any Arab or European country that expels US and Israeli ambassadors.
• Global oil prices briefly surged to nearly $120 per barrel on Monday before slipping back below the $100 mark. Trump has dismissed the spike as “a very small price to pay” for the war against Iran.
• As of Tuesday, the US-Israeli attacks have killed over 1,300 Iranian civilians, according to official data from Iran.
• The deadliest attack yet was a strike on a girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran that killed 168 children, with horrific footage emerging from the scene.
• US media outlets have said, citing available footage and analysis, that the school was hit by a US Tomahawk missile. Trump has dismissed the reports, insisting that Tehran is to blame.
• The US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities near Tehran have produced a “black rain” of toxic oil and soot, with residents reporting breathing difficulties. Online images and footage show thick smog over the capital, as Iran’s Red Crescent Society warns that the rain could be “highly dangerous and acidic.”
• US Central Command says eight service members have died in operations linked to the attacks on Iran, which has put its death toll in the hundreds.
• At least 13 Israelis have been killed in the crossfire so far. Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases in the region have killed at least four in the UAE, one in Bahrain, six in Kuwait, and two in Saudi Arabia.
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10 March 2026
13:18 GMTUAE air defenses have destroyed eight ballistic missiles and 26 drones, the Defense Ministry has said, adding that nine drones fell on the country’s territory.
It added that since the start of the escalation, six people have been killed and 122 injured in Iranian strikes.
- 12:34 GMT
Russia is the “only winner” in the Middle East conflict, European Council President Antonio Costa has said, arguing that Moscow “gains new resources to finance its war against Ukraine as energy prices rise” and “profits from the diversion of military capabilities that could otherwise have been sent to support Ukraine.”
- 12:32 GMT
Iranian intelligence has claimed that Tehran destroyed half of the US and Israeli air defense radars, adding, as cited by Fars, that this “led the Americans to move defense equipment from East Asia to the region.”
It also suggested that the US and Israel had spent up to 75% of their ammunition due to continuous Iranian strikes, with new shipments still in transit.
- 12:31 GMT
Denmark’s Supreme Court has opened a hearing on a lawsuit filed by humanitarian organizations demanding a halt in arms exports to Israel.
The lawsuit, which was dismissed by a lower court last year, claims that Denmark is violating international law by selling Israel parts for F-35 fighter jets amid allegations that the Jewish state has orchestrated a “genocide” in Gaza.
- 12:02 GMT
Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, has dismissed Trump’s threats of new strikes as “empty.” “Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Be careful not to be eliminated!” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
- 11:32 GMT
Trump has told Fox News that he could be willing to hold talks with Iran. At the same time, he reiterated his criticism of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, saying, “I don’t believe he can live in peace.”
- 11:09 GMT
The New York Times has compared public support for US foreign military interventions at the initial stages of the conflict since World War II, with the Iran war being at the very bottom at 41%.
The analysis omits polling from early in the Vietnam War, but Statista figures suggest that in 1965, 59% of Americans thought that the US putting boots on the ground was “not a mistake.”
- 10:55 GMT
More than 80,000 Syrians have crossed from Lebanon into Syria since the start of the Middle East conflict, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the country, Celine Schmitt, has told SANA news agency.
- 10:54 GMT
Iranian media outlets have shared footage of missile strikes targeting the US Al Harir base in Iraq. The IRGC earlier said the attack involved five missiles.
