On March 12, 2026 – Day 13 of Operation Epic Fury and four days after being elevated as Iran’s Supreme Leader – Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first public statement as head of the Islamic Republic, delivered via Iranian state media. He did not appear personally in the broadcast; …
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On March 12, 2026 – Day 13 of Operation Epic Fury – Iran launched a new wave of drone and missile attacks across Gulf states, with Bahrain reporting strikes on fuel storage tanks amid a continued surge in global oil prices. The attacks were the latest in a sustained campaign that had …
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On March 11, 2026 – Day 12 of Operation Epic Fury – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz with drone and missile fire, further disrupting the critical chokepoint through which approximately 20 percent of the world’s seaborne oil …
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On March 9, 2026 – Day 10 of Operation Epic Fury – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched what Iranian state media called its 37th wave of retaliatory missile and drone attacks against U.S. military installations and Gulf nation infrastructure. The sustained campaign …
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On March 7, 2026 — as the Iran war entered its second week — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian publicly apologized for Iran’s attacks on neighboring countries and announced that Iran would cease striking Gulf states unless those states themselves attacked Iranian territory. “I should …
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On March 4, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a Pentagon briefing in which he declared that the U.S. had effectively destroyed Iran’s navy and killed all of its senior naval leadership. CENTCOM reported having destroyed over 30 Iranian ships — comprising significant portions of both …
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On March 4, 2026, Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Al Udeid Air Base near Doha, Qatar — the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East and the headquarters of U.S. Air Forces Central Command. Qatari air defense systems intercepted one missile, but the second struck the installation, …
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On March 3, 2026, Iranian drones struck the U.S. Embassy compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in one of the most significant escalations since Operation Epic Fury began on February 28. Two suspected Iranian drones hit the embassy compound, causing minor material damage. The building was empty at the …
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On February 28, 2026, President Trump authorized the launch of Operation Epic Fury, a massive coordinated US-Israeli military campaign targeting Iran without congressional authorization. Codenamed Operation Roaring Lion by Israel, the strikes commenced with simultaneous attacks on Tehran, Isfahan, …
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