Iran launched a number of assaults early on Friday (March 13, 2026) on Gulf Arab states, together with dozens of drones at Saudi Arabia, following warnings from its new supreme chief about internet hosting American bases, and U.S. President Donald Trump threatened main new retaliation.
“Watch what occurs to those deranged scumbags at the moment,” Mr Trump wrote in a social media submit. “Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Drive is not, missiles, drones and all the pieces else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”
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The feedback got here the day after Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to “not chorus from avenging the blood” of Iranians killed, and warned Gulf Arab nations to close U.S. bases, saying the notion of American safety was “nothing greater than a lie.”
Intense airstrikes hit early on Friday (March 13) round Iran’s capital, Tehran, in addition to outlying areas. It was not instantly clear what had been focused.
The worth of Brent crude oil, the worldwide customary, remained stubbornly over $100 per barrel as Iran stored its stranglehold on transport by way of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway by way of which a fifth of the world’s oil transits on its means from the Persian Gulf to the open seas.
Brent costs have spiked as excessive as about $120 per barrel and are presently some 40% larger than when Israel and the US attacked Iran on Feb. 28 to begin the warfare.
Iran has been attacking ships that attempt to transit the strait, and Khamenei’s feedback — his first to the general public since being named to exchange his father, who was killed through the first day of the battle — stated Iran would proceed to dam the waterway.
In Iraq, restoration efforts had been underway after an American KC-135 refueling aircraft went down, in line with U.S. Central Command. And a French soldier who was stationed within the north of the nation was killed in an assault, the French president stated Friday.
Iran has been attacking oil and different infrastructure across the Gulf area, and on Friday Saudi Arabia that it had downed practically 50 drones despatched in a number of waves all through the early morning hours.
Sirens additionally sounded in Bahrain warning of incoming fireplace from Dubai, and black smoke billowed from an industrial space after authorities stated particles from an interception had sparked a blaze.
Almost 60 individuals had been wounded in northern Israel after Hezbollah stated it had fired a number of rocket salvoes towards the world and at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. Nearly all of the accidents had been described as very minor.
One particular person was killed in southwestern Beirut in an Israeli strike, in line with the Lebanese Well being Ministry, and one other assault hit an condo within the capital, leaving it engulfed in flames. Following the assaults, the Israeli military stated it had been focusing on a member of Iran-linked Hezbollah.
Greater than 600 individuals have been killed in Lebanon because the combating started, the Well being Ministry has reported. and practically 800,000 have been internally displaced, in line with the U.N. refugee company.
Iranian authorities say greater than 1,300 individuals have been killed there, and Israel has reported 12 deaths. The U.S. has misplaced at the least seven troopers whereas one other eight have suffered extreme accidents.
In his Friday morning submit, Trump stated that “we’re completely destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and in any other case.”
“They’ve been killing harmless individuals all around the world for 47 years, and now I, because the forty seventh President of the US of America, am killing them,” Trump stated. “What a terrific honor it’s to take action!”
The U.S. army stated American forces have now struck greater than 6,000 targets because the operation towards Iran started, together with greater than 30 minelaying vessels.
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron stated a French soldier was killed in an assault focusing on Irbil in Iraq’s northern Kurdish area. France earlier stated six troopers had been harm in a drone strike in Irbil, the place French troops are deployed as a part of a multinational counterterrorism mission supporting Iraqi forces of their struggle towards Islamic State militants.
In the identical area, British officers stated a number of U.S. personnel suffered minor accidents Wednesday when drone strikes hit a base in Irbil that homes each British and American troops.
Italy stated {that a} base the place it has troops in Irbil was additionally hit Wednesday however that there have been no accidents. The Italian contingent within the area trains native Kurdish troops on the request of the Iraqi authorities
Restoration efforts had been underway in western Iraq on Friday after the American KC-135 refueling plane crashed. It was not instantly clear whether or not there have been any casualties, however the plane had 5 crew on board.
U.S. Central Command stated the crash was not associated to pleasant or hostile fireplace, and that two plane had been concerned, together with one which landed safely.
The KC-135 is the fourth publicly acknowledged plane to crash as a part of the U.S. army’s operations towards Iran. Final week, three American fighter jets had been mistakenly downed by pleasant Kuwaiti fireplace.
Printed – March 13, 2026 12:11 pm IST