Israeli Overseas Minister Israel Katz. File
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Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened a surge in assaults towards Iran on Saturday (March 21, 2026), and Britain condemned Iran for focusing on a joint U.Okay.-U.S. base within the Indian Ocean because the conflict in West Asia entered its fourth week.
The Iranian assault on the Diego Garcia air base — positioned about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) from Iran — prompt Tehran has in its stockpile missiles that may go far additional than it had beforehand acknowledged.
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Additionally on Saturday (March 21, 2026), Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility was hit in an airstrike, an official Iranian information company reported, saying there was no radiation leakage.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz mentioned in a video assertion that subsequent week, “the depth of the assaults” by Israel and the USA towards Iran’s ruling theocracy will “improve considerably.” He spoke shortly after fragments from an Iranian missile slammed into an empty kindergarten close to Tel Aviv.
Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoshani posted a video on X of the kindergarten constructing; no casualties had been reported because the place was empty on the time.
In a single day and into the morning, Tehran, Iran’s capital, noticed heavy airstrikes, residents mentioned. In Iraq, a drone struck the intelligence service headquarters in Baghdad, killing an officer. No group instantly claimed accountability for that assault.
Saudi Arabia mentioned it downed 20 drones in simply a few hours within the nation’s jap area, house to main oil installations. No accidents or harm had been reported.
The assaults — and threats of extra to come back — point out the Iran conflict exhibits no signal of abating. Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi instructed Japan’s Kyodo information service on Friday (March 20, 2026) that Iran wished “not a cease-fire, however an entire, complete and lasting finish to the conflict.”
Iran’s try and hit the Diego Garcia air base within the Indian Ocean
U.Okay. officers haven’t given particulars of the tried strike on the ocean air base on Friday (March 20, 2026), which was unsuccessful.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence mentioned on Saturday (March 21, 2026) that Iran’s “lashing out throughout the area and holding hostage the Strait of Hormuz ” is a menace to British pursuits and British allies.
Britain has not participated in U.S.-Israeli assaults on Iran, however has allowed American bombers to make use of U.Okay. bases to assault Iran’s missile websites.
On Friday (March 20, 2026), the British authorities mentioned U.S. bombers can even use U.Okay. bases, together with Diego Garcia, in operations to stop Iran from attacking ships within the Strait of Hormuz. Iran focused the bottom earlier than that U.Okay. assertion.
Revealed – March 21, 2026 05:58 pm IST