Live! Iran hits Bahrain desalination plant; smoke from oil depot strike shrouds Tehran
Kuwait cuts crude output after drone attack, Saudi Arabia and Qatar targeted, UAE declares 'period of war' as tensions rise across the Gulf
Bahrain accused Iran of striking a desalination plant on Sunday (March 8), raising fears that civilian infrastructure may become fair game in the war, as Iran's president vowed to expand the country's attacks on American targets across the region in the face of intense US and Israeli airstrikes.
A late-night Israeli strike on an oil facility engulfed parts of Iran's capital, Tehran, in smoke on Sunday, while Israel renewed attacks in Lebanon. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press ahead with the nine-day-old campaign, which has rippled across the region and appears to have no end in sight.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian threatened Sunday to step up attacks on American targets across West Asia. He appeared to backtrack from conciliatory comments towards his Gulf neighbours on Saturday. Those comments, in which he apologized for attacks on their soil, were quickly contradicted by Iranian hard-liners.
In Lebanon, Israeli strikes pushed the death toll to above 300 after Israel ordered tens of thousands to evacuate ahead of an offensive aimed at stamping out the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
The war, which Israel and the United States launched with airstrikes on February 28, has so far killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, over 300 in Lebanon and about a dozen in Israel, according to officials. Six US troops have also been killed.
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