Missiles fired by US, Israel hit two schools near Tehran: Iranian media

Missiles fired by the United States and Israel have hit two schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran, Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency has reported.

The agency shared photos of damage and debris in what appeared to be a classroom and said several nearby residential units also sustained damage in the attack on Thursday.

The attack came just six days after what Iran has described as a US-Israeli one on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab, where 165 schoolgirls and staff were killed, the day the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, which has ignited exchanges of fire across the Middle East.

Iranian authorities put the final death toll from the Minab attack at 165 people, most of them girls ages seven to 12. At least 95 other people were wounded in the attack.

Iran says it hit a US oil tanker in the Gulf and warns on transit through Hormuz

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that their naval force struck a US oil tanker in the northern Gulf and that the vessel “is on fire,” raising fresh concerns about maritime security tied to the regional conflict and the safety of the Strait of Hormuz—one of the world’s most sensitive energy choke points.

According to the statement carried by Iranian state media, the tanker was hit “early today” in the northern Persian Gulf. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the claim or the ship’s identity, and there was no immediate official response from the United States addressing Iran’s allegation.

The Guards also repeated a warning that, “in time of war,” passage through the Strait of Hormuz would fall under the Islamic Republic’s control, and threatened action against vessels it says fail to comply with transit “protocols.”

Sri Lanka trying to ‘safeguard lives’ on second Iran ship after US attack

Sri Lanka is ‌trying to “safeguard lives” on another Iranian ship off its coast, ⁠its cabinet spokesperson says, after an attack by the United States on an Iranian frigate killed more than 80 people and left dozens missing.

“We are doing ⁠our utmost to safeguard lives,” Nalinda ⁠Jayatissa said on Thursday, adding that the second vessel was in the economic zone ‌beyond ⁠the Sri Lanka’s territorial waters.

On Wednesday, a US submarine sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in international waters off Sri Lanka. The attack was carried out as the US-Israeli war on Iran spreads across the Middle East and beyond.

At least 80 people have been killed after Iranian warship the IRIS Dena sank in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lankan officials said, after a US submarine fired a torpedo. The director of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital told CNN its mortuary had received 87 bodies as of last night.

The Sri Lankan Navy said 32 people have been rescued so far. 180 people were believed to have been onboard the vessel when the first distress call was received on Wednesday, according to the country’s foreign minister.

Jayatissa said the second warship is reported to be carrying more than 100 crew members and is heading to the same area where the US submarine destroyed the Iranian frigate. There are fears the second vessel could be targeted in the same way.

“The second Iranian warship to pass near Sri Lanka’s territorial waters since yesterday is believed to be part of a group of three Iranian navy vessels returning from an international maritime event in India,” Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez said, reporting from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/middleeast/maps-iran-tehran-attack-vis-intl

• Widening conflict: Israel said it was launching strikes across Tehran as well as against what it described as Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut. Separately, Iran launched a drone attack on an Amazon data center in Bahrain, a state-affiliated Iranian news agency said.

• Trump’s powers: Republicans rejected a resolution aimed at requiring that President Donald Trump seek congressional approval for future US military action against Tehran. Earlier, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the US would start “striking progressively deeper” into Iran.

• ID for US service members: The Pentagon identified two remaining service members who were killed in a drone attack in Kuwait on Sunday.

• Death toll rises: Inside Iran, more than 1,000 people have been killed since the US and Israel launched strikes this weekend, according to a US-based human rights agency.

• Europe drawn in: A host of European countries pledged military aid after Cyprus and Western allies in the Gulf were attacked. The UK is sending extra jets to Qatar while France is allowing the US to use a base for non-combat purposes. But leaders remain reluctant to get too closely involved in the war.

• On the ground: There has been no letup in strikes with the war in its sixth day. Israel says it hit Iranian missile sites while Iran carried out fresh retaliatory strikes across the region, with several injured in Abu Dhabi. A CNN team has entered Iran, the first US network to cross into the country since the war began.

• Widening conflict: There are further signs of the war spilling beyond the Middle East. Iran denied its drones struck an airport in Azerbaijan, and Tehran called the US torpedoing of a warship near Sri Lanka an “atrocity.”

• Evacuations ramp up: Stranded passengers are starting to leave the Middle East as airlines schedule new services and governments rally charter flights. But many remain stuck, with travel options limited.

US attacking Iran is still bad. There might not be good guys but there is very easily a worse guy. One of US-israel's first attacks was a school, killing 100s of girls. US bombing doesn't help women and queer people in iran. Don't do thag pink washing bs. 

The invasion is not some liberatory move by US. They just want a puppet in iran. Israel wants a destoyed iran. Even looking at the kill count tells you what each side is targeting. Most of the places iran attacked have death less than 10 and casualties no where close to 100.

US-israel have killed more than a 1000. US-Israel are mostly targeting schools, hospitals and civilian areas plus infrastructure.  Iran is mostly targeting military infrastructure and assets. US are the more evil side and critical support to iran in this specific war.

I do wonder to what extent Azerbaijan might get involved. Azeris form the largest minority with Iran and are a majority a several regions in the North-West of the country.

If they had a free choice, would those Azeri rather live as part of Iran or Azerbaijan? If the latter, would they think this is a realistic opportunity to breakaway?

@Chrkeller your friends in Iran would be living a democratic society if not for Western interference. The CIA assassintated Iran's democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1951. Why? Because he noticed BP (British Petroleum) was screwing them over in their oil deal. He wanted Iran to get their fairshare so they killed him. It's never about the liberty of a people. The domino effect from this act caused the chain of events that lead to the current Iranian regime. If the current regime towed the line of Western interests. Israel, the US, EU, etc. would give zero fucks about rights of women and th LGBT community. We can see this in how they interact with Saudia Arabia amongst other nations. It's always about what's best for Western interests. Thomas Sankara, the former leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated for similar reasons as Mohammad Mossadegh. 

And here it is. Trump wants to install a puppet government in Iran.

Currently, the probable successor to Supreme Leader will be Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ali Khamenei.

Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader - Axios

I'm not familiar with the Azaris. I did read that Trump is trying to arm the Kurds to rise up in Iran.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/05/trump-iran-kurds-iraq/
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-us-israel-kurds-cia-mossad

So not surprising is the Azeris will get urged to get involved as well.


It's the end goal for Netanyahy, balkanize Iran and turn it into another endless civil war failed state along with Yemen, Lebanon and Syria.


It's also possible it's a false flag attack,

Azeri President Alliyev seeks Iran’s apology for the drone attack in Nakhchivan, but Tehran denies role in the incident.

“One drone struck the terminal building of the airport in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, while another drone fell near a school building in the village of Shakarabad,” the ministry said.

It added that the attack injured two civilians and caused damage at the airport.

We all know who likes to bomb schools... And looking at the map, it makes zero sense for Iran to attack Nakhchivan.



The blue/purple X is Nakchivan on CNNs strike map. It's much closer to where the US/Israel have been bombing and not on route to any places Iran has been targeting. My money is on Israel trying to get the Azeris involved.


Take Google AI with a grain of salt but this is what it says on the subject:

Did Israel already mention which kind of attack Iran was supposed to do against Israel? Katz now said that they wanted to kill Khamenei mid of 2026 but did it earlier now because they expected Iran to attack Israel before. But how? With drones and rockets like they obviously do now as well or with aircrafts (which nobody will believe because it's just stupid).

So which attack of Iran much worse as what Iran does now did they stop?

Or are they seriously telling us that Iran would have build and used nuclear bombs in the next few months?

PBS translated what he told the Israelis

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/read-netanyahus-full-statement-on-iran-attacks

It's all propaganda, but yes he cites nukes and missiles as the imminent threat.

He ends with this:

My brothers and sisters, in two days we will celebrate the holiday of Purim. 2,500 years ago, in ancient Persia, an enemy rose against us with the exact same goal of completely destroying our people. But Mordechai the Jew and Queen Esther, with their courage and resourcefulness, saved our people. In those days of Purim, the lot was cast, and the wicked Haman fell along with it. Even today on the holiday of Purim, the lot was cast, and the end of the evil regime will also come. The prophet Amos says, "The lion has roared, who will not fear?" In Operation Lion's Roar, we roar, Do not fear Israel, for are you not a young lion? We will stand as one person with one heart, and with God's help, we will ensure the eternity of Israel.

This is who you are dying for USA, both literally and figuratively.

The new era of disinformation has officially arrived:

So many people in society never needed any evidence in the first place to believe ridiculous lies but I do wonder how much worse things will get in the AI era. People already constantly have to wonder "Is this AI?" so maybe the end result will be people becoming more skeptical of everything but when you don't know what's real any more that still robs the truth of its power... 

I'm glad MAGA is on its last leg but I do shudder to think how this tech will be weaponized at scale by others and what the next big lie will end up being. 

Iran’s retaliation forces US to shut operations in Kuwait; warship ‘flees’

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Thursday claimed it had targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf. The Islamic Republic said the warship had fled after the strikes. This came amidst the news of the US State Department announcing suspension of its operations in Kuwait in the wake of the barrage of missiles from Iran. Rifat Jawaid analyses the day's developments along with the news of Iran using Khorramshahr-4 to target the Ben Gurion airport.

‘IRAN WAR IS LOST!’: Geopolitical Expert Says Trump CAUGHT in ‘ESCALATION TRAP’

"Hey Grandpa, how did ww3 start?"
"You see, there was this guy called Jeffrey Epstein"