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TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has said Tehran’s military actions are strictly defensive and directed only at targets linked to acts of aggression against the country.

Iran war spreading economic damage far beyond oil and gas markets  The Washington Post

Donald Trump has claimed that Iran is responsible for an air strike that hit a girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab and killed at least 150 people.

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – The Islamic Resistance Movement in Iraq has declared that it has carried out 24 drone and missile strikes on the US military bases in Iraq and the region over the past 24 hours amid the ongoing US-Israeli aggression.

Hundreds of activists filled the streets of New York City in protest of the Israeli-US war on Iran.

Smoke rose over Beirut after an Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada Hotel building in the Raouche district.

How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine  The New York Times

Iran was preparing to reveal its new supreme leader on Sunday, after US-Israeli air strikes destroyed fuel dumps and triggered fires that choked much of Tehran in a thick blanket of smoke. The clerical body tasked with choosing a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- killed just over a week ago in the strikes that triggered the war in the Middle East -- has reached a decision, but not yet named the new leader.

What collapsed in Punak on Monday evening was not only the walls of a police station, but one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic’s urban repression apparatus, reports Amirhossein Miresmaeili

Where Is the Iran War Headed?  The New Yorker

Double-tap missile attack kills 20 in Iran's Najafabad: Report A US-Israeli double-tap missile strike on Iran's central city of Najafabad has killed more than 20 people and injured 50 others, according to local media. Local police told Fars news agency that rescue workers and residents of the city were helping the injured after the first missile attack, when a second missile struck minutes later.

Iranian health ministry says 198 women killed in US-Israeli attacks Iran's health ministry said that 198 women have been killed since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Officials added that more than 1,300 people have been killed overall, with thousands more wounded.

Israel kills 19 in attack on southern Lebanese village The Israeli military has killed at least 19 people, including children, in a strike on a building in the village of Sir el-Gharbiyeh in southern Lebanon, according to the country's National News Agency (NNA). Rescue teams are working to find bodies in the rubble, NNA reported.

Iran president says remarks on neighbours ‘misinterpreted by enemy’ Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said his remarks were "misinterpreted by the enemy that seeks to sow division with neighbours", state TV reported on Sunday, after they were viewed as a decision to suspend attacks on Gulf countries while strikes did not stop. "It has repeatedly been said we are brothers and must have good relations with neighbours. However, we are forced to retaliate to attacks but this does not mean we have a dispute with a [neighbouring] country or want to upset their people," Pezeshkian said. Reporting by Reuters

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Condemning US-Israeli unprovoked military aggression against Iran, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned of the dire consequences of spreading flames of war in the region.

Kuwait says two interior ministry officers killed 'while performing duties' Kuwait’s interior ministry said two officers were killed early on Sunday while performing national security duties. In a statement posted on X, the ministry said Lieutenant-Colonel Abdullah Emad al-Sharrah and Fahd Abdulaziz Al-Mujammad, both from the General Directorate of Land Border Security, were killed while performing their duties. The statement did not provide further details about the circumstances surrounding the incident. بيان (10) من وزارة الداخلية pic.twitter.com/3S45Q0QQx9 March 8, 2026

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – The Islamic Republic of Iran Army announced that an Israeli Hermes drone was targeted and shot down by the army’s air defense systems in Markazi Province on Sunday.

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has said that Iran is now exercising its inherent right to self-defense under international law.

Beijing calls for Iran's sovereignty to be respected and demands 'immediate stop to military operations' in Middle East.

Children wounded in US-Israeli strikes on Iran are being treated at a children’s hospital in Tehran.