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Middle East crisis live: New supreme leader ’safe’ despite war injuries, says president’s son; Iran retaliates as Israel pounds Lebanon  The Guardian

Iran says more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and nearly 10,000 civilian sites have been hit by Israel and US.

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – A senior spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces has warned of the US and Israeli aggressors in attacking the residential areas and martyring the civilians in the country.

Israel strikes apartment building in central Beirut, Lebanese state media say Israeli strikes targeted an apartment building in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese state media said, marking the second strike in the city in recent days. A previous strike in Beirut killed five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday. A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight 10 to 11 March, 2026. (Fadel Itani / AFP)

Iran's new supreme leader 'safe and sound' despite war injuries, president's son says Iran's new supreme leader 'safe and sound' despite war injuries, the president's son said on Wednesday. Mojtaba Khamenei has been named Iran’s new supreme leader on Sunday, just over a week after Israeli-US strikes killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with several family members, including the new leader's wife Zahra Adel, his mother Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, a son and a sister.

Iran vows response to strikes on residential areas Iran will respond to recent US-Israeli strikes in residential areas, Defapress quoted the armed forces spokesperson as saying on Wednesday, after the heaviest strikes on the country since the war started. Abolfazl Shekarchi also urged regional countries and fellow Muslims to indicate "US-Zionist hiding places" to maximise the precision and impact of Iranian strikes while minimising harm to civilians, who he said are "used as human shields". Smoke rises from a building following a reported strike, amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, in Tehran, in this screen grab obtained from social media video released 11 March, 2026. (Reuters)

Iranian UN Envoy reports over 1,300 civilian casualties following U.S. and Israeli strikes  AKIpress News Agency

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – The Public Relations Office of the IRGC has said 37th wave of Operation “True Promise-4” was carried out with the most severe and heavy attacks against positions of aggressors which was unprecedented since the outbreak of war.

Father Pierre al-Rai of Qlayaa vowed days before fatal strike to remain in parish despite Israeli evacuation warning: 'When we defend our land, we defend it peacefully' The post Pope mourns Lebanese priest reportedly killed by IDF while aiding wounded villagers appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Qatar says intercepted missile attack Qatar's Ministry of Defence says its armed forces intercepted a missile attack targeting the country earlier. تعلن وزارة الدفاع القطرية عن تصدي القوات المسلحة لهجمة صاروخية استهدفت دولة قطر. pic.twitter.com/KbPSSTSS3o March 11, 2026

Sri Lanka court orders 84 sailors' bodies be handed to Iran embassy: Report A Sri Lankan court has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack on an Iranian warship off the country's coast be handed over to the Tehran's embassy, local media reported on Wednesday.  Last week, a US submarine struck the Iris Dena while it was returning from a naval exercise organised by India, killing over 80 people.

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Abbas Araghchi and his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty held a phone call latest on Tuesday to discuss the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a telephone conversation on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments on US-Israeli aggression against Iran.

Iranian spokesman vows to respond to Israeli-US attacks on residential areas Iran will respond to recent US-Israeli strikes in residential areas, a local news outlet quoted the Iranian spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi as saying on Wednesday. Shekarchi also urged regional countries and fellow Muslims to indicate US-Israeli "hiding places" to maximise the precision and impact of Iranian strikes while lessening harm to civilians, who he said are "used as human shields".

The US president’s doctrine of lawless military adventures harms American interests and boosts Vladimir Putin Waging war with no fixed purpose means victory can be declared at any point. Donald Trump’s motives for launching Operation Epic Fury against Iran were incoherent at the start. They are no clearer now that he has declared it “very complete, pretty much”. US and Israeli bombs have caused death and destruction, shaking but not toppling the government in Tehran. Among the targets was the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. He has been replaced by his son – an “unacceptable” candidate in the US president’s evaluation. Continue reading...

Trump threatened Iran with a military response ‘at a level never seen before’ after US destroyed more than a dozen Iranian mines laid in the Strait of Hormuz

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – The IRGC used different kinds of missiles in the 35th wave of Operation True Promise 4 on Tuesday night.

Iran war live updates: Regime issues threat against protesters; drone reportedly hits major US diplomatic facility in Iraq  The Guardian

Why the US and Iran are fighting two different wars  CNN

Trump’s war of choice in Iran hands Putin an opportunity  CNN