After President Donald Trump remarked that US attacks on Iran may end "very soon," experts in Israel say their country's own campaign will likely follow Washington's lead. But as RFE/RL's Ray Furlong reports from Tel Aviv, Israel is pursuing its own security priorities with strikes in Lebanon.
US and Israeli forces continued to strike government targets in Iranian cities and military sites on March 10 as US defense chief Pete Hegseth warned new attacks will be the heaviest yet. Iran responded with its own strikes on nearby countries, including Bahrain.
After the Iranian women's soccer team declined to sing along with their country's anthem at an Asian Cup game, an Iranian state TV presenter denounced them as "wartime traitors." Fearing for their safety, five of the players reportedly left their training camp in Australia on March 9 to seek asylum.
Chanting against Iran's newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, could be heard in video posted on social media. Voices chanting "Death to Mojtaba" echoed through buildings in a Tehran residential neighborhood on March 8.
Israelis without bomb shelters at home have been sleeping for more than a week now in underground railway stations in Tel Aviv, amid constant alerts of incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. RFE/RL’s Ray Furlong joined them.
The Tehran skyline was filled with smoke following Israeli strikes on oil facilities in Iran. The Israeli military claimed responsibility for strikes on a number of fuel storage facilities in Tehran on March 8.
RFE/RL’s Ray Furlong visits a Persian spice market in Tel Aviv where Iranian Jewish shopkeepers and stallholders say they’re in a “strange” situation -- but hope that the war will bring political change in the land of their birth.
Iranians cross the border into Armenia as air strikes pound Tehran and other parts of the country. After entering Armenia, one woman said Iranians had "lost everything" amid the destruction and dwindling resources.
A lone ruin in the center of Tel Aviv bears witness to the power of Iranian ballistic missiles. But the lack of other such sites underlines Israel's ability to shoot them down. RFE/RL's Ray Furlong reports from the Israeli capital.
A woman living in Tehran describes witnessing heavy air attacks on the city, living in fear mixed with hope. The killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has brought "happiness about the dictator being gone" but that feeling is balanced with anxiety about the future, she told RFE/RL.
Iran's capital city saw the heaviest strikes witnessed so far on the seventh day of joint US-Israeli air attacks, according to social videos shared online. Verified user-generated video showed central areas of Tehran and government buildings coming under intense attacks.
Israel hit targets in Iran and southern Lebanon on the sixth day of the joint US-Israeli campaign. Reporting from Tel Aviv, RFE/RL correspondent Ray Furlong spoke to an opposition politician who said Israel's goal for a "final result" of the war is to bring down the regime in Tehran.
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