Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday rises in the sky in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2026IRAN launched fresh waves of strikes at Israel and US and energy assets in the Gulf states today as it continued to retaliate against devastating US and Israeli air raids.
Sirens warned of incoming missiles in Dubai and in Bahrain, authorities said an Iranian attack hit a residential building in the capital, killing a woman and wounding eight others.
Saudi Arabia said it destroyed two drones over its oil-rich eastern region and Kuwait’s National Guard said it shot down six drones.
Later in the morning sounds of explosions could be heard in Tel Aviv.
“We are definitely not looking for a ceasefire,” Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf wrote on X.
“We believe that the aggressor should be punched in the mouth so that he learns a lesson so that he will never think of attacking our beloved Iran again.”
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