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Israel strike on Iranian gas field coordinated with US – report
Israel’s strike against Iran’s South Pars gas fieldwas coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration,the American news website Axios reported, citing two senior Israeli officials.
The report says a US defence official also confirmed the claim.
The offshore gas field in the Persian Gulf, which Iran shares with Qatar, is the largest such facility in the world. Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman, Majed Al Ansari, described the targeting of the field — an extension of Qatar’s North Field — as a “dangerous and irresponsible step”.
Tulsi Gabbard also cited unspecified reports that China, India and other countries have been able to move tankers through the strait of Hormuz but it was not clear how much has been crossed through the channel controlled by Iran.
“There has been some reporting of China, India and other countries being able to move their tankers through the Strait. However, it is unclear the volume or the measure of that,” Gabbard said at a Senate hearing on worldwide threats.
Asked about reports that US intelligence suggests the Iranian regime will likely remain in place “weakened but more hardline”, intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard says she will not comment on leaked “so-called intelligence”.
She tells the Senate’s intelligence committee that the regime maintains power in Iran “even though they are vastly degraded”.
Asked if the killing of the supreme leader made him a “martyr”, Gabbard added that the Iranians are using his death as a “call to arms”.
The Israeli military told AFP on Wednesday that “debris” had hit Ben Gurion Airport following Iranian missile fire, without specifying when the incident had occurred.
Israeli media reported that private planes parked at the international airport near Tel Aviv had sustained damage.
The army lifted the censorship order regarding the incident on Wednesday but did not authorise the disclosure of the date.
UAE condemns targeting of South Pars gas field, after Iran blames US and Israel
The UAE condemned the targeting on Wednesday of Iranian facilities in a gas field shared with Qatar, calling the attack attributed by Iran to the US and Israel a “dangerous escalation” in a rare rebuke.
“The United Arab Emirates affirmed that targeting energy facilities linked to the South Pars gas field in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is an extension of the North Field in the sisterly State of Qatar, constitutes a dangerous escalation,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“Targeting energy infrastructure poses a direct threat to global energy security... It also entails serious environmental repercussions and exposes civilians, maritime security, and vital civilian and industrial facilities to direct risks,” it added.
Israel andHezbollahare engaged in intense ground clashes in at least three strategic areas in south Lebanon as Israel continues to push on with its ground invasion of its neighbour, according to a Lebanese security source and residents of the affected towns.
Much of the fighting was concentrated around the strategic hilltop city of Khiam, with the Israel Defense Forces carrying out an air and artillery campaign againstHezbollahfighters dug into the city. Fighting escalated there after days of clashes, with a Hezbollah spokesperson acknowledging there were “heightened clashes” on the eastern and northern outskirts of the city.
As fighting continued in Khiam, Israeli troops attempted to push into border towns in the central and western sectors of southLebanon. A resident of the Aita al-Chaab border village said fighting was intense between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighters there.
A Lebanese security source said that the village was one of a number of border towns that was the site of heavy fighting as Israel tried to infiltrate southernLebanonthrough a number of points along the shared border. There, they had been met with resistance by members of Hezbollah.
The fighting came asIsraelamassed troops along the border, bringing four brigades and columns of tanks ahead of an expanded ground invasion of south Lebanon. The Israeli military said that already it had started a “limited ground operation,” as the political echelon discussed expanding the campaign.
The war was triggered whenHezbollah launched rocketsat Israel on 2 March. Israel quickly launched a military operation on Lebanon with the goal of completely eliminating Hezbollah. Hezbollah styled the war as one of survival for Lebanon, saying it was defending the country from the near-daily Israeli airstrikes on the country since the November 2024 ceasefire between the two parties. Outside Hezbollah’s constituency, the move to drag Lebanon into a war was deeply unpopular.
The latest hostilities are a contest between Israel’s airpower and Hezbollah’s guerrilla fighters. Experts said the ground fighting inLebanonwas now centred on strategic axes, in particular Khiam, which could determine Hezbollah’s ability to fight off Israel’s invasion.
Iran made no effort to rebuild uranium enrichment after its capabilities were destroyed in a June 2025 US-Israeli attack, the US intelligence chief testified Wednesday, contradicting president Donald Trump’s justifications for his ongoing war.
“As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability,”Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in prepared testimony to the Senate.
Gabbard: Iran government 'intact' despite heavy blows from US-Israeli bombing
Tulsi Gabbard,the US director of national intelligence, said Iran’s government has suffered heavy blows in the US-Israeli military campaignbut that it remains “intact”.
The US intelligence community “assesses the regime in Iran to be intact but largely degraded due to attacks on its leadership and military capabilities,” she told a US Senate hearing.
She said that if Iran’s leadership survived the war it would begin a years-long effort to rebuild its missile and drone programmes.
Israel strike on Iranian gas field coordinated with US – report
Israel’s strike against Iran’s South Pars gas fieldwas coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration,the American news website Axios reported, citing two senior Israeli officials.
The report says a US defence official also confirmed the claim.
The offshore gas field in the Persian Gulf, which Iran shares with Qatar, is the largest such facility in the world. Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman, Majed Al Ansari, described the targeting of the field — an extension of Qatar’s North Field — as a “dangerous and irresponsible step”.
Iran's president confirms intelligence minister Esmail Khatib killed
Iran’s president,Masoud Pezeshkian,confirmed the country’s intelligence minister,Esmail Khatib,had been killed.
Israeli defence minister,Israel Katz, said earlier today that Khatib was killed in a strike overnight.
Esmail Khatib.Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP
“The cowardly assassination of my dear colleagues Esmail Khatib, Ali Larijani, and Aziz Nasirzadeh, along with some of their family members and accompanying team, has left us heartbroken,” Pezeshkian said in a post on X, mentioning the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council and defence minister who were also killed in previous Israeli attacks.
Qatar condemns Israel for attack on Iran’s South Pars natural gas field
Majed Al-Ansari,adviser to the Qatari prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry,has blamed Israel for the reported strikes on facilities linked to Iran’s South Pars natural gas field,which Doha shares with Tehran.
He described it as“a dangerous and irresponsible step”that threatens global energy security.
In a statement posted on X, he said:
The Israeli targeting of facilities linked to Iran’s South Pars field, an extension of Qatar’s North Field,is a dangerous & irresponsible step amid the current military escalation in the region.
Targeting energy infrastructureconstitutes a threat to global energy security,as well as to the peoples of the region & its environment.
We reiterate, as we have repeatedly emphasised, the necessity of avoiding the targeting of vital facilities. We call on all parties to exercise restraint, adhere to international law, & work toward de-escalation in a manner that preserves the security & stability of the region.
Thousands of Iranians are attending a funeral ceremony held for Iran’s supreme national security council secretary Ali Larijani and Basij commander Gholam Reza Soleimani in Tehran.
Large crowds are at the ceremony, which also honoured 84 Iranian navy personnel who lost their lives in the US-Israeli attacks.
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Thousands of Iranians attend a funeral ceremony held for Iran’s supreme national security council secretary Ali Larijani and Basij commander Gholam Reza Soleimani affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
The funeral procession was held at Enghelab Square.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
People wave Iranian flags at the funeral procession.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Russia on Wednesday condemned the killing of Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, after ally Tehran vowed retaliation for his death in an Israeli airstrike.
Larijani had met Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in January, at a time when US navy ships were heading towards Iran ahead of the US-Israeli air campaign launched at the end of February.
“We firmly condemn actions aimed at harming the health and, even more, the killing of the leadership of sovereign and independent Iran. We condemn such actions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a daily briefing.
Moscow is a close ally of Iran and has condemned the US and Israeli attacks, which Tehran has responded to with a barrage of missile and drone strikes on US allies across the Gulf.
Iran’s revolutionary guards issued evacuation warnings on Wednesday for several oil facilities across Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, Iranian state media reported.
It comes as Qatar said that Israel’s targeting of an Iran gas facility was “dangerous and irresponsible”.
Israel has claimed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, was killed in a strike overnight.There has been no comment from Iran on Khatib’s reported assassination but it would be the latest in a string of Israeli strikes that have killed senior Iranian leaders.
The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had authorised the military “to assassinate any senior Iranian official ... without the need for additional approval”.He added that “significant surprises” are expected today as the “intensity of the strikes in Iran is increasing”.
It comes a day after Iran confirmed the deaths of its security chief, Ali Larijani, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Basij paramilitary force commander Gholamreza Soleimani.Iranian media reported that a funeral procession for both men will take place today in Tehran.
At least 12 people were killed in Israeli strikes in central Beirut, according to the Lebanese health ministry.News agencies reported four airstrikes over an eight-hour period this morning in a densely populated area within walking distance of the city centre and headquarters of the Lebanese government. The Israeli military said it had completed an overnight wave of strikes targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
The Israeli military said it will begin attacking bridges across the Litani river in southernLebanonas it once again ordered people to flee north.An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said the military was carrying out the bombing to prevent Hezbollah from moving reinforcements and combat equipment to areas where Israeli forces are operating.
Iran launched an attack on an airbase in the UAE where Australian soldiers are stationed, the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said.An Iranian projectile hit a road just outside the Al Minhad base, which hosts more than 100 Australian military personnel. Albanese confirmed that no Australian personnel were injured.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the global repercussions of the Middle East war “will hit all”,suggesting more western officials should push back against the conflict.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Araghchi also said that Iran’s stance against the development of nuclear weapons would not significantly change.
US-Israeli strikes hit Iranian gas facility in Bushehr province - reports
Iranian state media reported that US and Israeli strikes have hit Iran’s offshore South Pars natural gas field in the southern Bushehr province.
South Pars, the world’s largest natural gas field, is shared between Iran and Qatar in the Persian Gulf.
It was not immediately clear if Israel or the US had carried out the attack and neither have commented on the reported strikes. If confirmed it would mark a significant escalation of US and Israeli attacks against Iranian energy infrastructure.
The UAE has intercepted 327 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles and nearly 1,700 drones from Iran since the war began, the country’s defence ministry said.
The attacks have killed eight people, including two members of the armed forces and six foreign nationals, the ministry added. A further 158 people of various nationalities have been injured.
The ministry said it had intercepted 13 ballistic missile and 27 drone attacks just today.
‘We want change but not like this’: Iranians describe daily life under air attack
A picture essay by the Guardian’sStefanie Glinskiand photographerMohammad Mohsenifarillustrates the daily struggles of Iranians in Tehran who are trying to stay safe from the bombing as the war stretches into a third week.
A burning oil depot in the distance after an airstrike on 8 March.Photograph: Mohammad Mohsenifar
“Israeli police killed four members of the Bani Odeh family, including two young boys, in the occupied West Bank. The family was shot in the head and face by undercover forces during a joint operation with the military, who claimed the vehicle posed a threat. The incident is under review, but the circumstances remain unclear.
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
A woman comforts Khaled, 11, who survived the shooting, at the funeral for his parents and brothers.Photograph: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters
Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip.
Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.
The killings came hours after Israeli settlers had shot and killed Amir Moatasem Odeh, 28, in Qusra south of Nablus. The attackers also stabbed his father, Moatasem Awda, who was taken to hospital in serious condition.
There has been a surge of Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since Israel and the US launched their war on Iran at the end of February.
Over two weeks Israeli settlers have shot six civilians dead during invasions of Palestinian olive groves, villages and grazing land, and one man died after inhaling military-grade teargas used by the Israeli army.
The attack on the Bani Odeh family brought the number of Palestinians killed to 11. Two brothers survived the shooting. Khaled, 11, the oldest of the siblings, said he had heard his mother crying and his father praying before they died.
After the gunfire stopped, Israeli border police dragged him out of the wreckage, taunted him about the murders of his family and attacked him. One of the Israelis said “we killed dogs”, he told Reuters.
The family had been in the nearby city of Nablus to buy clothes for the upcoming Eid festival, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Families often stay up late in a month when adults fast during daylight hours.
“What did this family do? They went to buy Eid necessities, and to put a smile on those children’s faces,” said Mansour Abu Islam, a neighbour and cousin of Ali. “This is clear evidence that Palestinian lives have no value.”
The gunmen were an undercover unit who were not in uniform and were driving a car with Palestinian license plates, Abu Islam said.
Israeli forces opened fire without warning, Khaled said in an interview from hospital. After the shooting an Israeli asked him who had been in the car. “I said: ‘My father, my mother, my three brothers, and me’. He said: ‘You are lying,’ and then they started beating and kicking me.”
All four victims were were shot in the head and face, and Ali, who was driving, was also shot in the chest and left hand, the Palestinian ministry of health said.
Israeli forces initially prevented ambulances reaching the scene, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement. The military later towed the family car away, according to witness accounts and video shared on social media.
A spokesperson for the police said the Bani Odeh family had been killed during a joint operation with the Israeli military. Forces opened fire on the vehicle when they “perceived an immediate threat” after it accelerated, the statement said.
Asked what threat was posed by four young children and their unarmed parents, or whether the shooting violated Israeli rules of engagement, the police and military declined to comment.
The police and military were in the area to “arrest wanted suspects believed to be involved in terrorist activity,” the statement said. “The circumstances of the incident are under review by the relevant authorities.”
The Israeli military has command responsibility for all forces operating in occupied Palestine. A spokesperson said border police killed the Bani Odeh family and declined to comment further, referring all questions to the police.“
“FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran, accusing them of spreading misinformation. Carr’s comments, echoing President Trump’s criticism of the media, have been condemned by Democratic lawmakers and free-speech advocates as a violation of the First Amendment. Carr’s tenure as FCC chairman has been marked by his willingness to bully and threaten the free press, according to critics.
The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media’s coverage of the war with Iran.
Brendan Carr in Washington in January.Eric Lee for The New York Times
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened on Saturday to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran, his latest move in a campaign to stomp out what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.
As the war entered its third week, Mr. Carr accused broadcasters of “running hoaxes and news distortions” in a social media post and warned them to “correct course before their license renewals come up.”
“Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not,” he said.
Mr. Carr shared a Truth Social post by President Trump that criticized the news media for its coverage of the war with Iran. Mr. Trump referred to a storypublished by The Wall Street Journal that reported five American refueling planes had been struck in Saudi Arabia, claiming its headline was “intentionally misleading.” He accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.
Dow Jones & Company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a similar vein, delivered a lengthy complaintabout CNN’s coverage of the war in the Middle East during a news conference Friday, saying that he looked forward to the news network being controlled by the billionaire David Ellison.
Mr. Ellison, who has a friendly relationship with Mr. Trump, is the owner of Paramount Skydance, which is seeking to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery for $111 billion. That deal, if it closes, will bring CNN under Mr. Ellison’s purview. He is best known in the journalism world for shaking up leadership at CBS News, where he has installed more conservative journalists.
Since taking over the F.C.C. chairmanship at the start of Mr. Trump’s term, Mr. Carr has regularly raised the possibility of seizing station licenses over various programming decisions at the major television networks, whose owned and affiliated stations need F.C.C. licenses in order to operate.
But long term experts in media regulation have said that the process for taking away station licenses is involved and exceedingly onerous by design. The pre-eminent national communications law prohibits the government from using regulations to censor.
Democratic lawmakers and free-speech watchdogs were quick to condemn Mr. Carr’s threat as a violation of the First Amendment. On social media, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called it “straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” while Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona said that “when our nation is at war, it is critical that the press is free to report without government interference.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which advocates for free-speech rights, said in a statement that Mr. Carr’s tenure as F.C.C. chairman “has been marked by his shameless willingness to bully and threaten our free press.” It called his latest post “shocking — and dangerous.”
Mr. Carr’s comments on Saturday follow a pattern he has charted, which critics say is dangerous and positions him as a national censor.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was temporarily pulled off the air after Mr. Carr took issue with some of the ABC host’s comments, and Mr. Carr has suggested the F.C.C. should investigate the network’s daytime talk show “The View” over its political content. And in February, Stephen Colbert blasted Mr. Carr and said that his network, CBS, had barred him from airing an interview with a Democratic candidate in a U.S. Senate race because of new guidance by the F.C.C. about equal airtime for political candidates.
The Trump administration’s messaging against the news media comes as polls show it faces low public support for the war and it tries to thwart Iran’s efforts to block a vital oil route amid skyrocketing global oil prices.
Jim Rutenberg contributed reporting.
Ashley Ahn covers breaking news for The Times from New York.
More on the Fighting in the Middle East
Mood in Tehran: Residents say a heavy, lifeless atmosphere hangs over the streets of Iran’s capital, which has endured relentless attacks throughout the war.
U.S. Refueling Plane Crashes: A U.S. military refueling aircraft that was part of the war against Iran crashed in Iraq. The crash was not because of hostile or friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said. All six crew members died, bringing the number of U.S. service members killed in the war to at least 13.
Iranian National Soccer Team: Seven members of the women’s team had sought refuge in Australia after they were labeled “traitors” at home. Four have since changed their minds.
Testing Europe’s Military Might: To defend allies from Iran, the continent’s powers have mounted a rare show of force. But those efforts have also revealed the limits of Europe’s defense abilities, officials and analysts said.
Grounded Gulf Airlines: Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways have become some of the world’s largest and most profitable carriers because of their location at the center of busy travel routes. The war has forced them to cancel tens of thousands of flights.“
