{"id":201943,"date":"2026-03-01T03:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/iran-vows-no-leniency-as-it-launches-reprisal-attacks-on-israel-and-us-air-bases-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:57:11","slug":"iran-vows-no-leniency-as-it-launches-reprisal-attacks-on-israel-and-us-air-bases-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/iran-vows-no-leniency-as-it-launches-reprisal-attacks-on-israel-and-us-air-bases-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran vows \u2018no leniency\u2019 as it launches reprisal attacks on Israel and US air bases – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tehran says strikes on country, which targeted key leaders and have killed at least 80 children, breach UN charter
US-Israeli attack on Iran \u2013 live updates<\/a>
US and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so far<\/a>
Iran has launched a barrage of retaliatory missiles aimed at Israel<\/a> and US bases across the region, denouncing the two countries\u2019 airstrikes as a breach of the UN charter and an act of flagrant aggression designed to end any possibility of a diplomatic resolution.
Iran\u2019s Red Crescent reported 201 deaths and 747 injuries in daylong attacks across 24 provinces, mainly directed at Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps headquarters and missile launch sites.
Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, admitted Iran had lost one or two senior commanders in the opening raids, and the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said he was not in a position to confirm or deny whether the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was alive. Satellite images showed his compound in Tehran as a charred ruin incinerated by bombs, but Iranian officials said the 86-year-old leader had not been in the building.
Iran\u2019s foreign ministry called on Muslim and non-aligned states to denounce the attacks as a breach of the UN charter, pointing out that the US-Israeli strikes<\/a> on Saturday were the second such attack in a year while Iran was in the middle of sensitive negotiations over its nuclear programme. Iran described the talks as a US-Israeli deception operation.
The talks had focused on setting up a verifiable process whereby Iran could not acquire the materials for a nuclear bomb. The chief mediator in the talks, Oman\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, had said on Friday that he believed peace was within reach.
Despite rumours that the commander-in-chief of the army, Maj Gen Amir Hatami, had been killed, it did not initially appear that the attacks had managed to target its leadership on the same scale as it did last June. But it was reported that the Revolutionary Guards commander, Mohammad Pakpour, was killed, and the home of the leading reformist and former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi was badly damaged.
The elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, claimed more than 80 schoolchildren in a girls\u2019 elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, were killed<\/a> and dozens injured. Parents had been arriving to take the children home when a bomb struck. The school is next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps facility. Ambulances were seen taking injured people to hospital in central Tehran.
Pictures showed numerous Revolutionary Guards weapons warehouses had been hit, as well as missile sites.
The foreign ministry issued a statement, saying the country \u201cwill not hesitate\u201d in its response. In a statement posted on X, the ministry said: \u201cThe time has come to defend the homeland and confront the enemy\u2019s military assault.\u201d
The national security council called on the public to relocate away from cities under attack, and the government information council said \u201cpeople should not worry about shortages or deficiencies\u201d.
The instruction to leave Tehran and other cities may reflect a desire to prevent the accumulation of protesting crowds, and was the opposite of the message being issued by Reza Pahlavi, the son of the shah who ruled Iran before the revolution that brought in its current theocracy. Pahlavi said he would soon be asking for the protesters to return to the streets.
Donald Trump addressed Iranian civilians in his speech announcing the US attack: \u201cBombs will fall everywhere. When we finish our work, take control of your government,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will be yours to take.\u201d
It is unclear whether a worn-down Iranian security apparatus will be in any position to suppress any renewed street protests, or whether the attacks will reforge a sense of national cohesion, which had been lost amid the unprecedented state repression and economic malaise.
The supreme national security council claimed: \u201cEssential goods and fuel and medicine are abundantly available in the country. Twenty-four-hour medical services, centres and pharmacies will continue. Today is a test of national resistance for Iranians and despite all complaints and grievances we are united and in unison against foreign aggression.\u201d
Pezeshkian\u2019s son, Youssef, said on Telegram: \u201cAs far as I know this time the assassination attempts were unsuccessful and other officials are also safe. We will probably have a longer conflict and it will be a war of attrition. Endurance and patience are essential to get through these days.\u201d
A senior spokesperson for the armed forces warned: \u201cWe will give a lesson to [Israel and the US] that they have never experienced in their history. Any base in the entire region that helps Israel will be a target of the sacred system of the Islamic republic and we will show no leniency.\u201d
The Iranian military confirmed that it had sent drones and fired short-range missiles at al-Udeid airbase in Qatar, the Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait,al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, the Prince Sultain airbase in Riyadh, the US base in Erbil, northern Iraq, the Muwaffaq Salti airbase in Jordan, and the US Fifth fleet base in Bahrain. There was not much evidence of large-scale damage, but stray drones and missiles hit an apartment block in Bahrain and an airport terminal in Kuwait. Saudi Arabia and the UAE issued statements condemning Iranian violation of their sovereignty, and warning of their right to take reprisals. The Gulf states were opposed to the US attacks, but their mood may change if continued Iranian strikes hit their cities.
Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in a call with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq, sought to justify Iran\u2019s actions by saying the Gulf states had a responsibility to try to stop the US from using their bases to mount an illegal attack on Iran.
Reza Nasri, a lawyer close to the foreign ministry, said in a message to the American people: \u201cThis is not your war. But you will pay for it with your soldiers\u2019 lives, your national interests and your standing as Americans around the world. You will pay for it through the rise of anti-American sentiment globally, the tarnishing of your name, your flag and the hostile world your children will inherit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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