UK joins Wanks and Shailoks in the latest war against Iran

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BREAKING NEWS: THE UK ROYAL AIR FORCE and other British military elements are active on the US-Israel side of the current brutal attack on Iran, the British Prime Minister revealed earlier today.

“Our forces are active and British planes are the sky today,” Sir Keir Starmer said in a speech a few hours ago.

The RAF has fighter jets in the air around the region to prevent Iranians taking out US military bases around the region, as the Islamic nation tries to slow the Trump-led attacks.

** Is that the RAF's frigging job?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed the UK forces were acting “defensively”, but international law says that armed forces taking action on one side of a conflict are active participants.
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CONDEMNS ONE SIDE ONLY

Bizarrely, Starmer made a speech that pointedly did not condemn the unprovoked US-Israel attack but instead harshly criticized Iranians for defending themselves. “I condemn Iran’s attacks today,” he said.
There is no question that yesterday’s aggressive wave of attacks came from the US and Israel, but the British Prime Minister called for Iran’s defence forces – not the jet-fighters from the US and Israel—to stand down.

“Iran can end this now,” Starmer said. “They should refrain from further strikes.”
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WHAT THIS MEANS

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's speech a few hours ago left not the slightest doubt that the UK is continuing to actively work with the US and Israel in the unprovoked attack on Iran, illegal under international law.

Iran is one of the more sophisticated and advanced Muslim countries, with high rates of education, strong progress in scientific research, and a reputation for hospitality in a tourism industry that has extraordinary number of historic areas, reaching back more than 4,000 years.

Israel’s attacks on Iran in recent months have caused the Iranian government to become more popular in the country, as even some western media admitted. The government is popular and crime rates are low.
But Starmer, in his speech, painted Iran as a giant prison of repressed people longing for a new leader—an image that is patently biased, but perfectly echoes the US-Israel line.

- The UK armed forces provided intelligence to the IDF throughout the globally condemned attacks on Gaza.
- The RAF joined in with the illegal bombing of Yemen, when the Houthis tried to stop ship-borne weapons deliveries and other supplies to Israel.
- Survey after survey has shown that the British people are overwhelmingly opposed to war, but the two main political parties, Labor and the Conservatives, have a long history of being enthusiastic backers of US and Israeli attacks.

Netanyahu’s war? Analysts say Trump’s Iran strikes benefit Israel, not US

Netanyahu’s war? Analysts say Trump’s Iran strikes benefit Israel, not US

War with Iran contradicts the US president’s own criticism of regime change policies in the Middle East, analysts say

A F/A‑18 Super Hornet takes off from an aircraft carrier as part of the mission against Iran [US CENTCOM on X via Reuters]

By Ali Harb
Published On 1 Mar 2026

President Donald Trump stood in front of regional leaders during a visit to the Middle East in May and declared a new era of US foreign policy in the region, one that is not guided by trying to reshape it or change its governing systems.

“In the end, the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves,” the US president said in rebuke of his hawkish predecessors.

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Less than a year later, Trump ordered an all-out assault on Iran with the stated goal of bringing “freedom” to the country, borrowing language from the playbook of interventionist neoconservatives, like former President George W Bush, whom he spent his political career criticising.

Analysts say the war with Iran does not fit with Trump’s stated political ideology, policy goals or campaign promises.

Instead, several Iran experts told Al Jazeera that Trump is waging a war, together with Israel, that only benefits Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“This is, once again, a war of choice launched by the US with [a] push from Israel,” said Negar Mortazavi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC.

“This is another Israeli war that the US is launching. Israel has pushed the US to attack Iran for two decades, and they finally got it.”

Mortazavi highlighted Trump’s criticism of his predecessors, who had waged regime-change wars in the region.

“It is ironic, because this is a president who called himself the ‘president of peace‘,” she told Al Jazeera.



‘Diplomacy was betrayed by the Americans’: Iranian FM spokesman


History of warnings of the Iranian ‘threat’

Netanyahu, who promoted the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, has been warning for more than two decades that Iran is on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iran denies seeking a nuclear bomb, and even Trump administration officials have acknowledged that Washington has no evidence that Tehran is weaponising its uranium enrichment programme.

After the US bombed Iran’s main enrichment facilities in the 12-day war in June last year – an attack that Trump says “obliterated” the country’s nuclear programme – Netanyahu pivoted to a new supposed Iranian threat: Tehran’s ballistic missiles.

“Iran can blackmail any American city,” Netanyahu told pro-Israel podcaster Ben Shapiro in October.

“People don’t believe it. Iran is developing intercontinental missiles with a range of 8,000km [5,000 miles], add another 3,000 [1,800 miles], and they can get to the East Coast of the US.”

Trump repeated that claim, which Tehran has vehemently denied and has not been backed by any public evidence or testing, in his State of the Union address earlier this week.

“They’ve already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they’re working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America,” he said of the Iranians.

Trump has been building the case for a wider war with Iran since the June conflict, repeatedly threatening to bomb the country again.

But the US president’s own National Security Strategy last year called for de-prioritising the Middle East in Washington’s foreign policy and focusing on the Western Hemisphere.

Meanwhile, the US public, wary of global conflict after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has also been largely opposed to new strikes against Iran, public opinion polls show.

Only 21 percent of respondents in a recent University of Maryland survey said they favoured a war with Iran.



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The first day of the war saw Iran fire missiles against bases and cities that host US troops and assets across the Middle East in retaliation for the joint US-Israeli strikes, plunging the region into chaos.

Trump acknowledged that US troops may suffer casualties in the conflict. “That often happens in war,” he said on Saturday. “But we’re doing this not for now. We’re doing this for the future. And it is a noble mission.”

‘Ignoring the vast majority of Americans’

The Trump administration had appeared to step back from the brink of conflict earlier this month by engaging in diplomacy with Tehran.

US and Iranian negotiators held three rounds of talks over the past week, with Tehran stressing that it is willing to agree to rigorous inspections of its nuclear programme.

Omani mediators and Iranian officials had described the last round of negotiations, which took place on Thursday, as positive, saying that it yielded significant progress.

The June 2025 war, initiated by Israel without provocation, also came in the middle of US-Iran talks.

“Netanyahu’s agenda has always been to prevent a diplomatic solution, and he feared Trump was actually serious about getting a deal, so the start of this war in the middle of negotiations is a success for him, just like it was last June,” Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), told Al Jazeera.

“Trump’s embrace of regime change rhetoric is a further victory for Netanyahu, and loss for the American people, as it suggests the US may be committed to a long and unpredictable military boondoggle.”

While announcing the strikes on Saturday, Trump said his aim is to prevent Iran from “threatening America and our core national security interests”.

But US critics, including some proponents of Trump’s “America first” movement, have argued that Iran – more than 10,000km (6,000 miles) away – does not pose a threat to the US.

Earlier this month, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that “if it were not for Iran, there wouldn’t be Hezbollah; we wouldn’t have the problem on the border with Lebanon”.

Carlson said, “What problem on the border with Lebanon? I’m an American. I’m not having any problems on the border with Lebanon right now. I live in Maine.”

On Saturday, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib stressed that the US public does not want war with Iran.

“Trump is acting on the violent fantasies of the American political elite and the Israeli apartheid government, ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say loud and clear: No More Wars,” Tlaib said in a statement.

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Netyanyahu's great achievement

 

Netyanyahu (grins): We did it!

Q: Kill Khamenei?

Netyanyahu (grins again): No No, we manipulated that idiotic wankee goy

US-Israel attacks on Iran, day 2: Khamenei is killed, Iran retaliates

Iran carries out retaliatory attacks as supreme leader is killed in US-Israeli attacks pushing the region to the edge.

By Yashraj Sharma

Published On 1 Mar 20261 Mar 2026

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in the attacks by the United States and Israel, alongside his top security officials, as Tehran pledges to take “revenge” for the killing of the supreme leader.

Khamenei’s killing is a serious setback for Iran, where more than 200 people have been killed in the attacks across 24 out of 31 provinces since Saturday. Iran’s retaliatory attacks have targeted Israel and neighbouring Gulf countries hosting US military assets.

Khamenei, 86, was killed in the strike at his office in Tehran. The supreme leader’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed in the attack.

People mourn the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on March 1, 2026 [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Here is everything that happened so far on Day 2

Inside Iran

• The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had begun striking targets deep inside Tehran, a day after a joint US-Israeli attack killed Khamenei.
• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the sixth wave of “extensive missile and drone” attacks targeting Israeli military assets and 27 US bases in the Middle East in retaliation.
• Iran’s state media confirmed the killing of Khamenei, as well as security adviser Ali Shamkhani and IRGC Commander-in-Chief Mohammad Pakpour. According to the Hamshahri newspaper, Ahmad Vahidi has been named the IRGC’s new commander-in-chief. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the news.
• Iranian armed forces’ chief of staff, Abdul Rahim Mousavi, and Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh were also killed in the attacks.
• A three-person council – consisting of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, head of the judiciary, and one of the jurists of the Guardian Council – will temporarily assume all leadership duties in the country, Iran’s state TV reported.
• Iran’s top security official, Ali Larijani, said plans are in place to form a temporary governing body to carry out Khamenei’s duties.
• The death toll in the attack on an elementary girls’ school in southern Iran’s Minab city climbed to 148 people, and 95 others were injured.
• Khamenei’s supporters have taken to the streets in the main Iranian cities, including Tehran and Isfahan, to mourn the killing of the supreme leader.
• Iran’s highest-ranking official to appear on camera since Khamenei’s killing, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the parliament speaker, called the US and Israeli leaders “filthy criminals” who will face “devastating blows that you yourselves will be driven to beg”.
• “Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever been hit before,” US President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post late at night. “They better not do that, however, because if they do, we will hit them with a force that has never been seen before!” he added.
• In an interview with CBS News, Trump said he believes the US is better positioned to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran. “Much easier now than it was a day ago, obviously”, Trump said, adding, “because they are getting beat up bad”.

Israeli attacks and Iranian retaliation

• The Israeli ambulance service says one Israeli woman has been killed, and 121 others wounded, mostly with minor injuries, in waves of Iranian missile attacks.
• Air raid sirens continue to blare in and around the city of Tel Aviv.
• The Israeli military said the majority of these missiles and drones were intercepted or downed, but some managed to get through in Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh, a city west of Jerusalem.
• Israel’s military said it struck more than 30 targets in attacks on western and central Iran in another wave of strikes “to target the ballistic missile array and air defence systems of the Iranian terror regime”.
• Attacks will continue on air defence installations, missile sites, military headquarters, and other “regime targets” in Iran, the statement from Israel’s military added.



Israeli police and emergency teams respond at the scene after a missile hit buildings in Tel Aviv’s Gush Dan area, March 1, 2026 [Nir Keidar/Anadolu]

Iran continues to target the Gulf region

• At least 11 explosions were heard above Qatar on Sunday morning. The Qatari Ministry of Interior says a total of 16 injuries have been recorded following the Iranian attacks.
• Oman’s Duqm commercial port was hit by two drones, injuring one person, the state news agency said on Sunday. Oman was mediating between the US and Iran.
• Oman’s Maritime Security Centre said on Sunday the Palau-flagged oil tanker Skylight was targeted about 5 nautical miles (9km) off Musandam. “A twenty-person crew were evacuated, initial information shows four people were injured,” it said.
• Jordanian defence systems intercepted missiles that entered the airspace of the capital, Amman, as well as northern areas.
• The US embassy in Jordan issued a security alert early on Sunday morning, urging people to shelter in place.
• Sirens have also been reported in Kuwait as Iran continues its retaliatory attacks against the US allies in the Gulf.
• More explosions were heard in Dubai as well, a day after a fire broke out in the city’s Palm ⁠Islands tourist attraction. Debris from a drone intercepted by Dubai’s military led to a fire at Jebel Ali port, a frequent stop for US Navy ships in the Gulf.
• Iraq’s Muqtada al-Sadr expressed “sadness and sorrow” over Khamenei’s killing as protesters in Baghdad confronted security forces in areas that host the country’s government, parliament, and foreign embassies.
• Protests have erupted in neighbouring Iraq as well as in Indian-administered Kashmir and Pakistan. At least six people were killed and several injured in riots that broke out near the US consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi.
• Iraq has announced three days of public mourning across the country in the wake of Khamenei’s killing.



A person sits in front of a store damaged in a reported overnight Iranian strike in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2026 [Ilia Yefimovich/AFP]

At the United Nations Security Council



• US Ambassador Mike Waltz said the strikes on Iran were directed towards dismantling its ballistic missile capabilities, degrading naval assets, and ensuring that “the Iranian regime can never, ever threaten the world with a nuclear weapon”.
• Russia’s UN envoy strongly condemned the latest military attacks on Iran, calling them “another unprovoked act of armed aggression”. Vassily Nebenzia said, “The US and Israeli military operation has been a betrayal of diplomacy.”
• China’s Ambassador Fu Cong called the US-Israeli strikes “brazen”, condemning the threat of force and calling for respect for Iran’s “sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity”. He said it was “shocking” that the US and Israeli attacks came in the middle of diplomatic negotiations between the US and Iran.
• The UN Chief said the military action carries the risk of “igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world,” and added that “everything must be done” to prevent wider escalation of war across the Middle East.



A yacht sails past a plume of smoke rising from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026 [Fadel Senna/AFP]

What’s the latest situation at the Strait of Hormuz?

• Iran moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, while ships in the Gulf reported receiving warnings from the IRGC that vessels would not be permitted to pass through the strategic waterway.
• Reuters news agency reported that the IRGC mandated that “no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz”.
• Nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil consumption passes through the strait, making it one of the world’s most vital oil export routes.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry defends retaliatory strikes, slams US betrayal

Iran’s Foreign Ministry defends retaliatory strikes, slams US betrayal

Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says Iran’s attacks on US targets across the region are legitimate defensive actions

Protesters gather with Iranian flags in support of the government, against US and Israeli strikes, outside a mosque in Tehran, on February 28, 2026 [AFP]

Published On 28 Feb 2026


Iran is entitled to defend itself from Israeli and US attacks, the spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stressed.

“We have every right in accordance with international law, with the UN Charter, to defend ourselves with all might”, Esmaeil Baghaei said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday.

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The US and Israel launched a wave of attacks across multiple Iranian cities, including Tehran, on Saturday, in what US President Donald Trump described as “major combat operations”.

At least 201 people have been killed, according to Iranian media, citing the Red Crescent.

A plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on February 28, 2026 [AFP]


Iran responded by firing missiles towards Israel and US military targets in multiple countries, including Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Baghaei said the country’s armed forces “are defending national sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Iran against these barbaric acts of aggression”.

The US-Israeli attacks came after a third round of indirect negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme between the US and Iran ended on Friday.

“We were supposed to meet on Monday to talk about technical aspects of any possible deal on [the] nuclear issue,” Baghaei said. “And the Americans themselves acknowledged that these negotiations went quite well. The mediator, [the] foreign minister of Oman, qualified this round of negotiations as being of significant progress.”

It was the second time in less than a year that diplomacy had been scuttled by an attack on Iran, Baghaei noted. Iran and the US had engaged in several rounds of negotiations last year, when Israel launched a 12-day war on Iran in June, which the US briefly joined, despite Trump saying he was committed to a diplomatic resolution.

Baghaei said the US “launching an act of aggression against another member of the United Nations” also threatened the international body, as its main pillar, “the UN Charter, is the provision of the use of force.”

“So, I think what is at stake is not only the security and peace of the region and that of Iran, but also the whole fabric of international law. And the normative system that has been created by the United Nations Charter,” he added.

Friends in the region

Baghaei defended Iran’s retaliatory attacks in several countries across the region.

“Under international law, any place, any location, any logistical support that are given to the aggressor [is a] legitimate target for the victim state,” he said. “So, we are not attacking any country in the region. We are friendly with all countries of the region. What we are doing is just taking defensive actions.”

“We have proven that we trust our friends in the region,” Baghaei said. “That’s why we try to get together with the countries of the region in furtherance of this diplomatic process. The problem is that the United States is conducting this war of aggression at the cost of everyone, including the countries of the region.”

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So long as the Shailok wants war, its wankee Ma Cai will kuai kuai obey and attack any target as demanded by Satanyahu.

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 80 people

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 80 people

State media says Israeli attack on girls’ school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens

This image grab taken from Iranian state television broadcasted on February 28, 2026, show what it says is the site of deadly US and Israeli strikes that hit a girls' elementary school in Minab, in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan near the strategic sea route of the Strait of Hormuz. [Screengrab/IRIB TV via AFP]

By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 28 Feb 2026

An Israeli strike has hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing dozens of people, according to state media, as the immediate civilian cost from Israel and the United States’s huge bombardment of Iran comes into sharper focus.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency cited the Judiciary of Minab as saying that the death toll had risen to 85 after Saturday’s strike on the school.

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Workers are continuing to clear wreckage from the site, where 63 others were injured on Saturday, said Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. The strike is part of a wave of joint US-Israeli military attacks across Iran that has triggered an outbreak of regional violence.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shared a photo of the attack, which he said destroyed the girls’ school and killed “innocent children”.

“These crimes against the Iranian People will not go unanswered,” Araghchi wrote in a post on X.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei also slammed the “blatant crime” and urged action from the United Nations Security Council.

Separately, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that at least two students were killed by another Israeli attack that hit a school east of the capital, Tehran.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Vall said the attacks call into question US and Israeli claims that “they are targeting only military targets and they are trying to punish the regime, not the people of Iran.”

“President Trump has promised the Iranian people that aid or help is coming their way, but now we are seeing civilian casualties; that’s something that the Iranian government will stress as a case of violation of international law and an aggression against the Iranian people,” said Vall.

There was no immediate reaction from the US or Israel on Iran’s claims about the school strikes.

The last time the US and Iran waged attacks on Iran in June 2025, sparking the 12-day war, the civilian toll in Iran was also heavy.

According to Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, thousands of civilians were killed or injured, and public infrastructure was damaged, during that conflict.

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Lord Moloch continues to be pleased with his shailok children for their votive offerings of child sacrifices.

Multiple Gulf Arab states that host US assets targeted in Iran retaliation

Multiple Gulf Arab states that host US assets targeted in Iran retaliation

Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.

Smoke rises in the sky after blasts were heard in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday, February 28, 2026 [Reuters]

By Al Jazeera Staff, AP and Reuters
Published On 28 Feb 2026

Iran has targeted United States assets across the Gulf Arab states in retaliation for a huge joint attack on Iran by the US and Israel, as the region’s worst fears of being ignited in the flames of a sustained war loom.

The Iranian government on Saturday confirmed its attacks on several targets, according to the Fars news agency, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, where US airbases are hosted.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed all Israeli and US military targets in the Middle East have been struck “by the powerful blows of Iranian missiles”.

“This operation will continue relentlessly until the enemy is decisively defeated,” it said. All US assets throughout the region are considered legitimate targets for Iran’s army, it added.

At least one person has been killed in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, after several missiles launched from Iran were intercepted, according to the country’s state news agency.

Bahrain says a missile attack targeted the headquarters of the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, which it hosts.

The government called it a “treacherous attack” and “a blatant violation of the kingdom’s sovereignty and security”.

Al Jazeera Arabic has meanwhile confirmed the sound of explosions in Kuwait, home to the US military’s Central Command headquarters.

In Qatar, the Defense Ministry says it “thwarted” several attacks on the country.

“The Ministry of Defense confirms that the threat was dealt with immediately upon detection, in accordance with the pre-approved security plan, and that all missiles were intercepted before reaching Qatari territory,” it said.

Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE have all closed their airspaces.



Moment of Iran strike on US military base in Bahrain


Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi, reporting from Doha, said the only country in the Gulf Cooperation Council that Iran has not struck today thus far is Oman.

Oman has for years served as a liaison between Iran and other nations in the region and beyond. It has played a central role in recent indirect talks between Iran and the US in Oman and Geneva.

Oman’s foreign minister on Friday had voiced optimism that peace was “within reach” as Iran had agreed during the talks never to stockpile enriched uranium. Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi described the development as a major breakthrough. Hours later, Israel and the US attacked, and those talks are now dead and buried.

The GCC is an alliance of six countries in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, established in 1981 to promote economic, security, cultural and social cooperation.

“Here in Doha, in the last few hours, we’ve heard at least a dozen explosions. The majority of them sound like they were Patriot defence missiles intercepting incoming Iran missiles,” Basravi said.

“As far as Iran is concerned, with the US and Israel firing the first shot in this latest go-round, everything is now probably fair game,” he added.

Moronic Mafulat-ish Ma Cai follows her Lord and Master into attacking Iran

Trump talks of ‘annihilation’, ‘elimination’ as US, Israel attack Iran

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Trump says “major combat operations” in Iran have begun, [so the USN can frigg their overflowing potties 😁😁😁]

By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 28 Feb 2026


United States President Donald Trump has said the joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran are aimed at “eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime”.

“Short time ago, US military began major combat operation in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime 😹😹😹,”  he said on Saturday.

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Trump made a number of other claims and predictions without any concrete evidence, as Iran promised a “crushing” retaliation of its own. 

Iran is preparing to “take revenge” on Israel and deliver “strong response”, State TV reported.

• “We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground.”
• “We are going to annihilate their navy. We are going to ensure that the region’s ‘terrorist’ proxies can no longer destabilise the region or the world.”
• “We will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It is a very simple message.”
• “They will never have a nuclear weapon. This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces.”

Iran has repeatedly said it would never build a nuclear weapon and that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes only. Neither US intelligence, nor the UN nuclear watchdog have found any evidence that Iran was pursuing an atomic weapon, a narrative Israel and some in the Trump administration have nevertheless pushed.

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington, said sources told him that “US involvement in this attack is aimed at “decapitating the Iranian regime”.

“They say that from what they can understand, the attacks were concentrated on areas where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be sheltering, so the intention was to try and take out the head of the regime and then see what would happen afterwards,” he added.

One of the areas targeted in Iran’s capital was near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, The Associated Press reported. Khamenei is not in Tehran and has been transferred to a secure location, according to an official quoted by Reuters.

“There are countries that have been cautioning the US against this attack and wanted to know what the plan for the day after would be, simply because you can’t guarantee that by removing the supreme leader you would necessarily form a pro-US government,” Fisher said.

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Idiotic Trump just did what Satanyahu had wanted all along.

America joins her Lord & Master Israel in attacking Iran

America joins Israel in attacking Iran as multiple US officials confirm joint operation



A plume of smoke rises into the sky as fire burns at an industrial complex in Abadan, Iran on February 26, 2026. — Reuters pic

Saturday, 28 Feb 2026 3:50 PM MYT


WASHINGTON, Feb 28 — The United States has started carrying out strikes on Iran, US media reported Saturday, after Israel said it had attacked its long-standing regional adversary.

Multiple US media outlets, citing American officials, reported that Washington had begun strikes on Iran in a joint operation with Israel, which said it had also carried out strikes and closed its airspace.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment. — AFP

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Ma Cai heareth, obeyeth, attacketh Iran as her shailok Lord and Master instructeth.

World No 1 Trouble-Maker strikes Iranian regime and military sites including ballistic missile facilities

Israel strikes Iranian regime and military sites including ballistic missile facilities, official confirms



A plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on February 28, 2026. — AFP pic

Saturday, 28 Feb 2026 3:37 PM MYT


JERUSALEM, Feb 28 — Israeli strikes on Iran were targeting “regime and military sites including ballistic missiles”, the Kan public broadcaster reported, citing an Israeli official.

“Israeli official: Regime targets and military sites are being attacked – including ballistic missiles,” appeared on the ticker of the Kan 11 television channel. — AFP

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The shailok strikes in a war it wanted, to destroy as many of Iranian missiles (that it dreaded) as possible.

Susan Sarandon says was fired by her agency, blacklisted by Hollywood over Gaza ceasefire call

Susan Sarandon says was fired by her agency, blacklisted by Hollywood over Gaza ceasefire call



American actress Susan Sarandon speaks during a press conference on the eve of the 40th Goya Awards ceremony at the Auditori Forum CCIB in Barcelona on February 27, 2025. — AFP pic

Saturday, 28 Feb 2026 9:13 AM MYT


BARCELONA, Feb 28 — Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon has opened up about the professional fallout she faced after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, revealing that her activism has effectively shut her out of the US film industry.

Speaking ahead of the Goya Awards in Barcelona, the Thelma & Louise star disclosed that her outspoken stance led to her being dropped by her talent agency and deemed “impossible” to cast in major Hollywood productions.


“I was fired by my agency, specifically for marching and speaking out about Gaza, for asking for a ceasefire,” Sarandon said.

“It became impossible for me to even be on television. I don’t know if it’s changed lately, but I couldn’t do any major film or anything connected with Hollywood.


The 77-year-old actress was dropped by United Talent Agency (UTA) in late 2023 following her appearance at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City. Since then, Sarandon said she has had to look toward Europe to sustain her career.


“I found agents ultimately in England and in Italy, and I work there,” she explained, noting that she recently completed a film in Italy and a stage production at London’s Old Vic. Even in Europe, however, she faced resistance.

“I know the Italian director that just hired me was told not to hire me... He didn’t listen, but they had that conversation. Right now, I kind of specialise in tiny films with first-time directors and independent projects.”


Sarandon contrasted the “repression” she feels in the US with the political climate in Spain, praising the country’s leadership and its creative community for their vocal support of Gaza.

“In a place where you feel repression and censorship, to see Spain — to see the president and what he says and the support he’s giving... and to have actors like Javier Bardem come forward with such a strong voice — is so important to us in the United States,” she said.

Sarandon’s comments were made on February 27 during a press discussion before she received the International Goya Award, the Spanish Film Academy’s highest honour, recognising a storied career that includes Dead Man Walking and Atlantic City.

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The Bible-inspired powers of Shailoks over moronic gullible Christian Zionists

Businessman insists he gave bag with RM1mil cash to Guan Eng

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Businessman insists he gave bag with RM1mil cash to Guan Eng

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Ho Kit Yen

Lawyer disputes G Gnanaraja's testimony, saying it defies logic for the former chief minister to be carrying a bag filled with cash in broad daylight

Lim Guan Eng was charged with using his position as then Penang chief minister to ask a businessman for a 10% cut of the profits from an undersea tunnel project, and accepting RM3.3 million in kickbacks. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: A businessman told Lim Guan Eng’s undersea tunnel project trial today a bag filled with RM1 million in cash was handed to the then Penang chief minister during a meeting nine years ago.

G Gnanaraja said he met Lim for the first time on Aug 20, 2017, inside a car driven by another businessman, Zarul Ahmad Zulkifli, another key prosecution witness in the trial.

Gnanaraja insisted that a bag with RM1 million was handed to Lim under Zarul’s instruction.

He said that after the bag was given to Lim, Zarul dropped the DAP leader off at Publika.

Lim’s lawyer, Ramkarpal Singh, disputed Gnanaraja’s testimony, saying it defied logic and was “highly impossible” that Lim would carry a bag filled with cash in broad daylight.

“You said he wore a state government uniform when you saw him, and then (Lim) headed to a crowded shopping mall,” Ramkarkal said.

Gnanaraja replied: “Some things did not make sense but it did happen.”

The businessman also said he did not know where Lim went after he was dropped off at Publika.

He also told the court Zarul had sent him a letter of demand in 2018, asking him to return a sum of RM19 million.

“I don’t agree with the contents of the letter, in which (Zarul) said I cheated him. My lawyers asked him to show proof,” he said, insisting that the RM19 million was a “friendly loan” from Zarul to him.

Lim is accused of using his position as then Penang chief minister to solicit a 10% share of profits from the undersea tunnel project and receiving RM3.3 million in bribes from Zarul.

He also faces two charges of dishonestly misappropriating RM208.7 million worth of state land.

The hearing before judge Azura Alwi continues on March 3.

Bill Clinton says he was unaware of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes

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Bill Clinton says he was unaware of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes

The former US president features prominently throughout released investigation files, but he insists that he broke ties well before the disgraced billionaire's 2008 conviction for sex offenses

Former US president Bill Clinton has acknowledged extensive interactions but said he never visited the financier’s infamous private Caribbean island. (EPA Images pic)

CHAPPAQUA: Former US president Bill Clinton denied wrongdoing Friday to a congressional panel probing his links to Jeffrey Epstein, as Democrats seek to shift focus onto Donald Trump’s own ties to the notorious sex offender.

Clinton features prominently throughout the Epstein files, but he insists that he broke ties well before the disgraced billionaire’s 2008 conviction for sex offenses.

“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton said in his opening statement, shared on social media.

The Republican chair of the House committee probing Epstein, James Comer, said ahead of Clinton’s deposition that he would be “asking lots of questions.” His Republican colleague Anna Paulina Luna said the former president was cooperative.

But Democrats on the committee reiterated their call for Trump, who also has well-documented links to Epstein, to be quizzed.

“Let’s be real, we are talking to the wrong president,” said Democrat committee member Suhas Subramanyam, who also emphasized that Clinton had not dodged any questions.

In his statement, Clinton did not name Trump directly but said “no person is above the law, even presidents — especially presidents.”

As for Trump, he repeated his skepticism over the whole process, telling reporters he likes Clinton “and I don’t like seeing him deposed.”

Being mentioned in the files released by the US Department of Justice does not imply wrongdoing and Clinton — like Trump — has not been accused of a crime or formally investigated.

Clinton follows his wife, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who testified Thursday and defiantly called for Trump to appear before the panel.

The lawmakers should ask Trump “directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files,” she said.

The depositions are being held behind closed doors, with Bill Clinton likening the proceedings to a “kangaroo court.” The couple has called for them to be open and televised.

Hillary Clinton said she had never known Epstein or visited the properties where he hosted world celebrities and powerful business and political figures — as well as allegedly trafficking young women and girls.

Bill Clinton has acknowledged extensive interactions with Epstein but said he never visited the financier’s infamous private Caribbean island.

Epstein was convicted in 2008 for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14, but died in a New York jail cell in 2019 before he could be tried on sex trafficking charges.

The Clintons had initially rejected subpoenas ordering them to testify, but the Democratic power couple agreed to do so after House Republicans threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress.


‘Turned him in’

Democrats say the investigation is being weaponised to attack Trump’s political opponents rather than to conduct legitimate oversight.

Previously unseen photographs from the files include one showing Bill Clinton reclining in a hot tub, part of the image obscured by a stark black rectangle.

In another, Clinton is pictured swimming alongside a dark-haired woman who appears to be Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Bill Clinton has acknowledged flying on Epstein’s private plane several times in the early 2000s for Clinton Foundation-related humanitarian work.

“Jeffrey Epstein was in the White House 17 times while Bill Clinton was President. We know that Bill Clinton flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane at least 27 times. So those are questions that we’re going to ask,” said Comer.

Clinton said in his opening statement “not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in.”

The depositions are being held in Chappaqua, New York, home to the Clintons, where dozens of journalists and Secret Service officers have converged.

Police complete probe in alleged Quran-stomping case

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Police complete probe in alleged Quran-stomping case

The investigation paper has been submitted to the deputy public prosecutor for further action

Pahang police chief Yahaya Othman said police have received 28 reports nationwide regarding the case as of tonight. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: Police have completed their investigation paper in the case involving a Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah student who allegedly stepped on a copy of the Quran.

Pahang police chief Yahaya Othman said the investigation paper has been submitted to the deputy public prosecutor for further action. “The suspect is still under remand. We are awaiting further instructions,” he was quoted as saying by Bernama at the Kuantan police headquarters today.

Yahaya said police have received 28 reports regarding the case so far. “I ask the public to wait for further action. The police will take appropriate measures regarding this case,” he said, adding that the suspect cooperated well throughout the process.

The student was arrested on Wednesday after a photograph allegedly showing his foot stepping on a Quran went viral on social media the day before.

The case is being investigated for defiling a sacred object with the intent to insult religion, while the university said it was conducting its own internal investigation into the student for sharing content on sensitive issues on social media.