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Iranians celebrate assassination of Supreme Leader Khamenei

Footage from social media showed people lighting off fireworks from their balconies and calling out to each other from their apartments.

IRANIAN AMERICAN community members and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Sadaf Ebrahimi and Shirin Nariman react to a news report on US President Donald Trump's announcement that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint US and Israeli strikes.
A still image released by US Central Command (CENTCOM), which accompanied a press release describing the operation dubbed "Epic Fury", an attack by the United States and Israel on Iran, shows a rocket launch from a ship, in this picture obtained from social media released on February 28, 2026.

No US combat casualties despite Iranian retaliation, US military says

A projectile falls over Dubai on February 28, 2026. AFP correspondents heard a loud explosion in Dubai on February 28 and one of them saw a plume of smoke rising from the city. The explosions came in the wake of wide-ranging Iranian attacks on the Gulf, in retaliation for US and Israel strikes on Ir

The Gulf is becoming the front line against Iran’s expansion - opinion

 Smoke rises from a burning building hit by an Iranian drone strike, after Israel and the US launched strikes on Iran, in Seef district, Manama, Bahrain, February 28, 2026

Four injured after incident at Dubai International Airport, Dubai media office says


Iran seeks Bahrain ties next after Saudi rapprochement - analysis

After the UAE and Saudi Arabia reconciled with Tehran, it would make sense for Iran to reach out to Bahrain.

 Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2022

Iran boasts of overcoming US pressure, increasing naval power

The reports come as Iran is positioning itself to gain from new ties with Saudi Arabia and its increasing arms trade with Russia, as well as close work with China.  

 A missile is launched during an exercise of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) navy in the south of Iran, in this picture obtained on January 17, 2023.

Iran pledges to cooperate with IAEA investigation, re-installs cameras

Iran is supposed to provide access to information, locations and people, suggesting a vast improvement after years of Iranian stonewalling.

 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi looks on during a news conference with Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami as they meet in Tehran, Iran, March 4, 2023.

Renewed protests in Iran's restive southeast, mosque surrounded

As with previous bouts of unrest, authorities appeared to have disrupted internet services on Friday.

Iranian Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a campaign meeting at the Mosalla mosque in Tehran, Iran

German city freezes relations with Iran following relentless pressure

German-Iranian dissident: The move is ‘a big defeat for the Iranian regime but also for the appeasement policy in Freiburg’

 An Iranian woman walks past election campaign posters in Naghsh-e-Jahan square in Isfahan

Drone attack targets Iranian military plant in Isfahan, blast heard

A loud explosion was heard at a military plant in Iran's central city of Isfahan.

 An Iranian woman walks past election campaign posters in Naghsh-e-Jahan square in Isfahan

Sullivan lands in Israel for Iran talks amid tension with new gov't

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visits Netanyahu to discuss Iran and the Israel-Palestine conflict

President Isaac Herzog meets with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on January 18, 2023

Iran executes dual national Alireza Akbari after accusing him of spying for UK

Britain had described the death sentence as politically motivated and called for his immediate release.

 Alireza Akbari, Iran's former deputy defence minister, speaks during an interview with Khabaronline in Tehran, Iran, in this undated picture obtained on January 12, 2023.

Iran top court accepts protester's appeal against death sentence

Iran has already executed two people involved in unrest that erupted in September after the death in custody of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini.

 A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022

Iran’s Guards arrest seven people linked to UK over protests

The government has blamed the unrest on demonstrators bent on the destruction of public property and says they are trained and armed by enemies including the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards march during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), in Tehran September 22, 2011.