Iran ; explosions across Tehran following Israeli and US strikes, 28 February 2026

[bestill]

This is amazing! Power to the people of Iran is my prayer!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028852804711030893

 

[bestill]

Maybe now people will believe President Trump and his administration when they say Iran was clearly close to obtaining nuke weapons capabilities

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028832288243433818

 

[Skigh]

Iran’s women’s team decline to sing national anthem before Asian Cup tie

Iran’s women’s football team declined to sing their national anthem before their opening match of the Asian Cup

www.theguardian.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

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[nhmemorymaker]

That is ridiculous. You can speak to any American on the street, Americans are ready to call Iranians friends once the Regime is gone. Americans know full well that it is the Regime and Revolutionary Guard that is evil, not the Iranian people. There is no wholesale bombing of civilian areas in the last few days, these attacks are as targeted as they can be.

who said otherwise, on being friends later.........

THIS will not be slow or easy. The poor Iranian people are there NOW.
Would be glad to think what you think about them NOW.... not after regime change.

Hope everone can remember all the recent successful "regime changes".

moo

 

[nhmemorymaker]

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[nhmemorymaker]

This has good maps and great photos of today’s attacks in Iran. Interactive map at end of article.

Airstrikes have hit the building in Qom used by the Assembly of Experts, the council of senior clerics (90 members) responsible for electing Iran’s next Supreme Leader

Looks pretty damaged, to me.


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thanks for this one....

 

[nhmemorymaker]

This has good maps and great photos of today’s attacks in Iran. Interactive map at end of article.

Airstrikes have hit the building in Qom used by the Assembly of Experts, the council of senior clerics (90 members) responsible for electing Iran’s next Supreme Leader

Looks pretty damaged, to me.


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https://iran.liveuamap.com/

This source is also very good.

Interactive Map: U.S. and Israeli Strikes on Iran

This interactive map complements the daily conflict coverage that the combined ISW-CTP team produces for conflicts in the Middle East.

storymaps.arcgis.com

 

[justtrish]

Maybe now people will believe President Trump and his administration when they say Iran was clearly close to obtaining nuke weapons capabilities

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028832288243433818

That is very optimistic of you! I'm sure plenty will still refuse to see that this threat was there. I'm sure the UN will pass a resolution though that won't do anything to stop Iran. I was disgusted to listen to their meeting the other day where the representative from Iran was allowed to speak and also the reps from China and Russia as if they have some moral high ground they can stand on in this situation. It's a slap in the face and appalling.

I think many always think the best time to act is LATER or after we have been hit first. Then you know there is still criticism because the narrative would be well why did we wait so long and if we knew Iran was going to do X then why didn't we do something first? When we do something first, the narrative shifts to the time to do something was later and we should have talked it out more.

There is never a perfect time and there is never a good time, and nothing will ever go off without something going wrong, but we can't just sit and wait. This time while we waited and "talked" the Iranian people were being killed for standing up to their government. In the month that we waited and talked Iran built 100 more missiles. We all would prefer that Iran agreed to a deal and actually followed through on their end, but they have shown us that is not who they are and not what they were ever going to do, so how long should we have waited? How many more missiles should they have built? Should we have waited for that uranium to be ready? What if it already was? They refused to let anyone in to see.

IMO

 

[Skigh]

'Not Winston Churchill we're dealing with': Trump renews attack on PM

The US President took a fresh swipe at Sir Keir as he continued to fume at the PM's initial refusal to allow American bombers to use British bases to strike Iran.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[imstilla.grandma]

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor taken and released on March 2, 2026, shows damage at the Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery

Saudi Arabia suffered a drone strike on its main Saudi Ras Tanura refinery, causing a fire and forcing some operations to be shut down. Qatar also shut off energy supplies after Iranian attacks.

The attacks on Arab countries lie at the heart of Iran’s strategy to survive the war against two far more capable military powers, according to analysts. Unable to defeat either the US or Israeli militarily, it is raising the costs of the war’s continuation for the region and beyond in hopes that pressure builds on the US, and thus on Israel, to agree to a ceasefire.

Hoping to pressure end to war, Iran aims fire at Arab neighbors. It hasn’t worked, yet

Tehran is betting raising the costs of fighting for the stability-hungry region will lead to Trump backing off strikes, but the Gulf's defiance has foiled the strategy. Will it last?

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Momoffourboys]

Reporter: “Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?”

President Trump: “No. No, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. And I didn't want that to happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand. But Israel was ready and we were ready. And we've had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out now.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028877972241858859

 

[Skigh]

who said otherwise, on being friends later.........

THIS will not be slow or easy. The poor Iranian people are there NOW.
Would be glad to think what you think about them NOW.... not after regime change.

Hope everone can remember all the recent successful "regime changes".

moo

I thought the Iranian people on the street had been begging for the support of the USA.

 

[PrairieWind]

who said otherwise, on being friends later.........

THIS will not be slow or easy. The poor Iranian people are there NOW.
Would be glad to think what you think about them NOW.... not after regime change.

Hope everone can remember all the recent successful "regime changes".

moo

I feel for the good iranian people and pray for their safety. But they have no chance of freeing themselves from the regime until the IRG is degraded. They, us, the world knows this.

 

[CrimeDawg123]

I'm thinking of the poor innocent Iranians who will be killed and have already been killed by these attacks. It's all so senseless. Striking a school?!

Not sure we know who bombed the school, but we do know one country has form.

Gaza war: ‘Direct hits’ on more than 200 schools since Israeli bombing began | The United Nations Office at Geneva

www.ungeneva.org

 

[PrairieWind]

This handout satellite image courtesy of Vantor taken and released on March 2, 2026, shows damage at the Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery

Saudi Arabia suffered a drone strike on its main Saudi Ras Tanura refinery, causing a fire and forcing some operations to be shut down. Qatar also shut off energy supplies after Iranian attacks.

The attacks on Arab countries lie at the heart of Iran’s strategy to survive the war against two far more capable military powers, according to analysts. Unable to defeat either the US or Israeli militarily, it is raising the costs of the war’s continuation for the region and beyond in hopes that pressure builds on the US, and thus on Israel, to agree to a ceasefire.

Hoping to pressure end to war, Iran aims fire at Arab neighbors. It hasn’t worked, yet

Tehran is betting raising the costs of fighting for the stability-hungry region will lead to Trump backing off strikes, but the Gulf's defiance has foiled the strategy. Will it last?

www.timesofisrael.com

Iran's plan to attack neighboring nations in an effort to force them to pressure the US to end the bombing appears to have backfired on the Iranian regime. It has only increased Arab anger at Iran. This morning Qatar conducted its first offensive operation into Iran. I suspect the Saudis will follow soon and likely move against Yemen again to end the Houthi threat once and for all.

 

[bearfossils]

I thought the Iranian people on the street had been begging for the support of the USA.

Have you ever talked to an actual Arab person who lives in the region? Most of them have no faith in the United States, whose intervention has almost never benefited them or changed their experience for the better. Especially when members of the American military are being told this war is, “for ‘Armageddon’, and the return of Jesus”. Violent military intervention in the Middle East is almost always driven by American imperialistic and capitalistic desires.

 

[CSIDreamer]

It is our shared national tragedy.... many many of us had connections of some sort or another...
I was working in Boston, and had colleagues with relatives who were on the planes.
We have all stayed tight over all these years, becauseof that pain.
BUT the nation obviously did not experience it first hand. But you in New York City did.

The affects were long lasting.
But the attack was not.

We are still a country of no internal attacks that lasted time and ruined people and their way of life.

I now know people and am reading journalists talking about many wonderful Iranians that they know.
I sense we are to think of Iran, and by inclusion, all Iranians as one big grey block of a desert.

If we see long lasting bombing and blasting of Iranian civilians, the US and I should be considered barbarians.

That's really thought provoking, thank you.

I remember saying to someone "gosh, the US was a no fly zone for awhile". Our government acted swiftly to protect us.

When we recall all the emotions, the fear, the sadness, the OUTRAGE of "how dare they" we must remember that MILLIONS of innocent Iranians have lived under this brutal regime of tens of thousands of deaths, fear, sadness . . . for their *entire* lives. They literally have no lived frame of reference for anything but terror.

I pray the US and Israel can help pave the path to a new freedom for them.

I know what fearing loss of freedom on 911 felt like. I cannot imagine what Iranians that are old enough to remember life prior to a terrorist regime are feeling right now. Hope maybe? May they not be disappointed.

JMO

 

[PrairieWind]

Have you ever talked to an actual Arab person who lives in the region? Most of them have no faith in the United States, whose intervention has almost never benefited them or changed their experience for the better. Especially when members of the American military are being told this war is, “for ‘Armageddon’, and the return of Jesus”. Violent military intervention in the Middle East is almost always driven by American imperialistic and capitalistic desires.

Iranians are not Arabs. Did you know that? Most Iranians do indeed have a favorable view of America. As for Arab nations, most seek now what is best for them. They know friendship with the US is helpful, Iran is harmful. Many neighbors of Israel had learned to seek peace and be prosperous. But Iran would NEVER accept that. The regime sought endless war to expand the revolution. Much of the Muslim world in the ME has simply grown tired of this.

 

[ab01]

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed> ... Iran is not an Arab country
While located in the Middle East and having a Muslim-majority population, Iran is predominantly Persian in ethnicity and culture. Iranians speak Persian (Farsi), which is an Indo-European language, not Arabic. Iran's identity is rooted in ancient Persian civilization.

In fact they don’t even practice the same sect of the Muslim religion. Iran is predominantly Shia Muslim.

Most Arab Countries are Sunni Muslim.