Overview
- - U.S. and Israeli forces intensified bombardment, with Israel announcing a broad wave of strikes on Tehran that set Mehrabad airport ablaze and targeted sites including a military academy, an underground command center and missile storage.
- - President Donald Trump ruled out talks short of Iran’s unconditional surrender, threatened to hit targets not previously considered, and said the U.S. must help choose Iran’s next leader while rejecting Mojtaba Khamenei.
- - President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran’s interim leadership approved halting strikes on neighboring countries unless attacked and issued an apology, yet missiles and drones were launched at the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Israel, with interceptions reported and a blast at Dubai airport.
- - U.S. Central Command said more than 3,000 Iranian targets were hit in the first week and released footage of an Iranian drone carrier burning after a strike.
- - Human and economic costs mounted, with Iran reporting over 1,300 dead, Lebanon’s toll rising past 200 with mass displacement in Beirut, six U.S. troops killed, oil climbing above $90 a barrel, and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz largely stalled.