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New Israel, Iran attacks across region: Latest developments in Middle East war
Paris, France, March 3 (AFP) Mar 03, 2026
US and Israeli strikes hit targets across Tehran on Tuesday as President Donald Trump boasted of widespread damage and said it was "too late" for talks.

Here are the latest developments:


- Iran yet to use 'advanced weaponry' -

Iran is ready for a long war and has yet to use its most advanced weapons, its defence ministry said.

- Khamenei to be buried in Mashhad -

Iranian media announced that supreme leader Ali Khamenei is to be buried in Iran's second-largest city Mashhad. No date for the burial was disclosed.


- Israel to 'continue attacking Hezbollah' -

Israel army chief says will continue attacking Hezbollah until it is disarmed, as the military said several projectiles had been fired from Lebanon towards Israel, adding that most were intercepted.


- Iran response 'wrong strategy' -

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told state-run TV that Iran's indiscriminate bombings across Gulf states was the 'wrong strategy' and "significantly increases the risk in the region". He said the United States should limit its attacks to undermining Iran's military capabilities as forcing regime change would bring "risks" to the region.


- Bushehr airport hit -

US-Israeli strikes damaged the airport in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, Iran's Mehr news agency reported. It said an Airbus plane and another aircraft, as well as the airport terminal had been damaged.


- Air strike hits Iraq base of pro-Iran group -

An air strike hit a military base in southern Iraq housing the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group, a source from the armed faction said.

The Jurf al-Nasr base, which serves as one of the main bastions of the powerful Tehran-backed group, has been struck several times since the start of the war on Saturday.


- Trump hails impact of strikes -

"Just about everything's been knocked out," Trump said of US-Israeli strikes on Iran, as he met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Washington.

Trump told reporters he acted to stop Iran attacking first, and "might have forced Israel's hand".


- Most potential new Iran leaders are dead: Trump -

Trump said two waves of US-Israeli attacks on Iran had killed figures he had eyed as potential new leaders.

"Most of the people we had in mind are dead," Trump said.

He said the "worst case" would be "somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person".


- EU and Gulf foreign ministers to talk -

EU and Gulf foreign ministers will hold talks by videolink on Thursday, officials told AFP.


- Russia calls for de-escalation -

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged de-escalation in a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Moscow said.


- UK dispatches warship -

Britain will send a warship and helicopters with anti-drone capabilities for "defensive operations" to Cyprus after a UK military base there was hit by a drone, Prime Minster Keir Starmer said.


- Iran threatens economic centres -

An Islamic Revolutionary Guard general warned that continued US-Israeli attacks would see Iran conduct reprisals against "all economic centres" in the Middle East.


- Iran system resilient: shah's widow -


Farah Pahlavi, widow of Iran's last shah, told AFP the death of supreme leader Ali Khamenei would not necessarily bring down the government.

"The passing of a man -- however central he may be to the architecture of power -- does not automatically mean the end of a system," said Pahlavi, who lives in exile in Paris.


- Israel targets Iran missile production -


Israel's military said it struck Iranian industrial sites used to produce weapons, "particularly ballistic missiles".


- Tehran airport hit -


Tehran's Mehrabad airport -- which mainly handles domestic flights -- was targeted by strikes, according to the Mehr news agency.


- 'Large scale' blasts in Tehran -


Loud explosions rocked Tehran, with Israel's military later saying it had launched a new "large scale" wave of strikes on the capital "targeting the Iranian terror regime's infrastructure in Tehran".

Iranian media said central Tehran was struck, as well as the religious city of Qom, where the building used by the official body that select Iran's new supreme leader was hit.


- 'Too late' for talks -

Trump said that it was "too late" for talks with Iran, writing on his Truth Social platform that Iran's "air defense, Air Force, Navy, and Leadership is gone"

"They want to talk. I said 'Too Late!'" Trump said -- two days after saying he had agreed to talks.


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