Former IDF intelligence official Yossi Kuperwasser said Iran now views the conflict as an existential war, warning the regime is likely to escalate and use all military and proxy capabilities.
US President Donald Trump has for weeks signaled the US was interested in seeing regime change in Iran, but has not given in any detail Washington’s thinking on who could lead the country.
Israel and the United States struck Tehran and western Iran on Saturday, February 28, aiming to curb ballistic missile launches toward Israel as Iran began retaliatory fire.
State media in the United Arab Emirates said one person had been killed in Abu Dhabi, but gave no details.
Grok gave the clearest single-day answer in the original run: Saturday, February 28, tied to the outcome of talks in Geneva.
One video showed people dancing in the street, while another showed young Iranian men shouting “I love Trump” as smoke is seen billowing from a nearby strike.
Consider what that same sum could buy in Iran, where families navigate food insecurity, punishing inflation, and chronic medicine shortages.
In the past, some Kurds were able to seek refuge in Iran during Saddam Hussein’s genocidal poison gas attacks. However, the Iranian regime has been persecuting Kurds over recent decades.
It is not clear who is responsible for the hack, with one of the messages reading “Help has arrived,” an apparent reference to a message issued by US President Donald Trump in January 2026.
"You are located near weapons and military facilities that are considered dangerous," the military warned, publishing the message in English.
The exception was Australia's prime minister, while the X accounts of British, French, Italian, and German leaders had not been updated for hours by the time of publication.
