US F-35 Aircraft Targeted by Domestically-Made Air Defense System, Source Says
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran has used a domestically-made air defense system to hit the US F-35 fighter jet, a military source told Tasnim.
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Iran Hits Israeli F-16 Fighter Jet
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday that the third hostile enemy fighter jet was hit in the central sky of Iran.
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Iran's Chokehold On Hormuz And the Limits Of Military Force
The Strait of Hormuz, a 33-kilometer-wide chokepoint through which roughly a third of the world's seaborne oil passes, is effectively closed to normal commercial traffic. Iran has not blockaded the strait with a chain or a fleet.
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"Our consumption is very high..already affecting everybody," Shashi Tharoor on West Asia crisis amid Oil price surge
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], March 21 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday highlighted the severe impact of the ongoing West Asia crisis on global oil supplies and prices, stressing the urgency for the conflict to end. Speaking to ANI, Tharoor said, 'Because of the war, oil supplies, oil production, and oil exports are affected. The result is that prices are going up...
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"Once again, we see how enemy aims targets at civilians"; IDF claims Iranian missile hit kindergarten
Tel Aviv [Israel], March 21 (ANI): The Israel Defence Forces on Satirday shared footage from the site of a claimed missile strike in central Israel, saying an Iranian missile witha cluster warhead hit a kindergarten in Rishon Lezion. In a post on X, the IDF said Brigadier General (BG) Elad Edri, Chief of Staff of the Israel Home Front Command, visited the site where the missile struck. <a href="https://x.
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US army: Iranian threat to Hormuz 'degraded'
US army: Iranian threat to Hormuz 'degraded' The US military has said that US-Israeli attacks on an Iranian underground weapons facility has "degraded" the country's ability to control the Strait of Hormuz. The Commander of US Central Command said in a video statement posted on X: "We not only took out the facility, but also destroyed intelligence support sites and missile radar relays that were used to monitor ship movements," further claiming that the attack had undermined "Iran's ability to threaten freedom of navigation in and around the strait of Hormuz". "We will not stop pursuing these targets," he said.
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Explosions heard in Bahrain's capital: AFP
Explosions heard in Bahrain's capital: AFP Fresh explosions have been heard in Bahrain's capital of Manama, according to AFP. Air defence systems intercepted two missiles, while several blasts rocked the city after air sirens were activated. This came shortly after Bahrain's Ministry of Interior issued a directive to residents to seek shelter.
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"Strike our infrastructure and we will strike more": Iran warns US-Israel of strikes, says 'war will continue until aggressors removed'
Tehran [Iran], March 21 (ANI): Iran on Saturday issued a strong warning to the United States and Israel, stating that any attack on its infrastructure would be met with more extensive retaliatory strikes amid escalating conflict in the region, Iranian State Media Tasnim News Agency reported.
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‘We must preserve our traditions’: war shadows Tehran as Iranians mark Nowruz
Iranians in Tehran and across the country cautiously marked the Persian New Year despite the ongoing war entering its forth week Heavy strikes echoed across Tehran during one of the country’s biggest holidays as Tel Aviv said it had “acted alone” in striking Iran’s South Pars gasfield, a move that further escalated the conflict. Donald Trump said on Friday he was considering “winding down” military operations. He wrote on social media: “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives.
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UK allowing US use of military bases could violate international law, rights groups warn
UK allowing US use of military bases could violate international law, rights groups warn Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Sat, 03/21/2026 - 11:47 Human Rights Watch calls for 'urgent clarification' from Prime Minister Keir Starmer on whether base usage compliant with international law Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media on the situation in the Middle East, at Downing Street in central London on 16 March 2026 (AFP) Off Rights groups are sounding the alarm over the legality of UK involvement in US military strikes on Iran , following the government's decision to allow American use of its military bases. In a letter to the prime minister, attorney general and foreign secretary seen by Middle East Eye, Human Rights Watch UK director Yasmine Ahmed demanded "urgent clarification" on the steps taken by the government to ensure that US military strikes conducted from its bases are compliant with international humanitarian law. Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed in early March that the UK had agreed to allow the US to use its military bases for what he said were defensive purposes.
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Middle East War Leaves Hamas Balancing Allies on Opposite Sides
The Palestinian militant group, which has ties to both Iran and Qatar, is “walking on a knife’s edge,” an analyst said.
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Iranian Army Drones Strike Zionist Military Infrastructure at Ben Gurion Airbase
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Army announced a successful drone strike at on military infrastructure of the Zionist regime in the occupied territories, targeting fuel storage facilities and the deployment site of enemy fighter refueling aircraft at Ben Gurion Airport.
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Attack on western Iran's Ahvaz kills child
Attack on western Iran's Ahvaz kills child A child has been killed in a US or Israeli attack on the city of Ahvaz, in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, Mehr news agency is reporting. Valiullah Hayati, a deputy governor of the province, said the child's parents were also wounded in the attack, adding that an unexploded projectile had also struck a residential house in Aghajari, another city to the east. No casualties were reported in the second strike.
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Iranian Man Arrested After Trying to Enter U.K. Naval Base, Police Say
The man and a Romanian woman walked up to the gate of the base in Scotland, where nuclear-armed submarines are docked, and asked to be let in, an official said.
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Suspected Iranian cluster bomb attack damages Kindergarten, injures people in Israel
Tel Aviv [Israel], March 21 (ANI): Two people were injured a kindergarten was damaged in the latest missile attack from Iran towards Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday with contribution from Reuters. As per the Jerusalem Post, the two people were injured in what appears to be an example of a splitting warhead--a challenge for Israel's missile defence shield.
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Iranian State media reports US, Israel strike Natanz nuclear facility; No radiation leak reported
Tehran [Iran], March 21 (ANI): The United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran's key uranium-enrichment facility in Natanz early Saturday morning, according to the Iranian State Media Tasnim news agency. Tasnim reported that the strike targeted the Natanz Nuclear Facility, one of Iran's most significant nuclear sites.
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Iranian Americans are divided on the war and Iran’s future: ‘Bombing is not the same thing as liberation’
Little joy could be found among Iranians in the diaspora as Friday rang in Persian new year and the war on their homeland reached the three-week mark When Israeli and American missiles first started falling on Tehran, and as news of the death of Iran ’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leaked out, Nasser, a sixtysomething Iranian American dad from Boston who regularly travels to Iran, briefly experienced something akin to optimism. He “felt a flash of hope”, he told me, “or maybe vengeance, when Khamenei and his circle were hit”. It was a common sentiment among the millions of Iranians in the North American diaspora who have, for multiple reasons, come to reject the rule of the velayat-e-faqih , or the “guardianship of the Islamic jurist”, the Islamic Republic’s governing doctrine.
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War in the Middle East: Iran nuclear facility hit as equivalent of ‘one classroom of children’ killed, wounded daily in Lebanon
More than 1,000 people have been killed and 2,584 injured in Lebanon since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, UN officials said Saturday.
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UK allows US to use bases for Iran war after missiles fired at Diego Garcia
UK allows US to use bases for Iran war after missiles fired at Diego Garcia Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Sat, 03/21/2026 - 10:55 UK expands involvement in US-Israeli war after missiles fail to hit Indian Ocean military base Iranians attend the funeral ceremony of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran on 21 March 2026 (STR / AFP) Off The UK has agreed to let the US use its bases for its war on Iran , following an apparent Iranian missile strike against Diego Garcia. Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean but did not hit it, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing multiple US officials. One of the missiles failed in flight, while a US warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other.
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Germany says Iran-linked threat level ‘very high’
Germany’s Interior Ministry assessed the threat posed by the Islamic Republic and its operatives as “very high” and said security agencies are on full alert.
