Civilian deaths are rising as extra assaults are reported within the capital and different elements of the nation.
Printed On 2 Mar 2026
No less than 555 folks have been killed in US-Israeli strikes throughout 131 counties in Iran, the Iranian Pink Crescent Society says, amid one other wave of intensive assaults and Iranian counterstrikes on Israel and US belongings within the Center East area.
No less than 35 folks had been killed on Monday morning in southern Iran’s Fars province, based on the Mehr information company. The outlet additionally reported greater than 20 folks killed in an assault on Niloofar Sq. in Tehran.
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The Fars information company stated at the very least two folks had been killed within the central metropolis of Sanandaj as a number of residential buildings subsequent to town’s police station had been destroyed. The Tasnim information company stated US and Israeli forces dropped six missiles on totally different elements of town, together with densely populated neighbourhoods.
Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, advised reporters that US-Israeli air strikes had focused Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment website on Sunday.
“Their justification that Iran desires to develop nuclear weapons is solely an enormous lie,” Najafi stated, describing the ability as “peaceable”.
Israel and the US haven’t issued any statements confirming strikes on the website, which the USA bombed in the course of the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel in June.
Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from the Iranian capital, stated the most recent strikes had been indicative.
“This exhibits the scope of the assaults on Iran, with raids focusing on not simply political centres and navy headquarters,” he stated. “We’re witnessing harm to civilian buildings, with a few of them absolutely demolished in some circumstances. And that is regarding as a result of the civilian fatalities are rising.”
Movies verified by Al Jazeera additionally confirmed enormous clouds of smoke billowing behind buildings close to the worldwide airport within the central Iranian metropolis of Kermanshah.
Iranian authorities reported that the dying toll from an Israeli assault on a women’ college in Minab on Saturday rose to 180.
Hossein Kermanpour, the top of public relations at Iran’s Ministry of Well being, added that the “identical sort” of missile was used to assault the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran on Sunday. The hospital was badly broken, and sufferers had been evacuated.
The Israeli navy on Monday stated Iran had launched extra missiles and that air defences had been working to intercept the projectiles. It referred to as on residents to take shelter and stay in protected areas till knowledgeable.
Israeli police stated 9 folks had been killed after an Iranian missile assault on the central metropolis of Beit Shemesh. Eleven folks had been reported lacking as rescuers looked for survivors.
Iran continued with its retaliatory strikes on Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with assaults reported on airports, residential buildings and inns.
International locations within the Gulf have pledged to defend themselves towards Iranian assaults, together with by “responding to the aggression”.
Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi harassed that Tehran was not searching for confrontation with its Gulf neighbours however aimed to assault US belongings within the area.
