Tehran says no talks, Trump sees more deaths, Israel hits Beirut

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Al Jazeera Live

By Virginia Pietromarchi

Published On 2 Mar 20262 Mar 2026

• Iran continues to strike US assets across the Gulf after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and up to 40 top Iranian officials. The attacks have killed one person in Bahrain, with Iraq and Kuwait reporting more Iranian raids.
• Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, has refuted US media claims that he had made a fresh push to resume nuclear talks with Washington.
• Israel says it is striking at the “heart of Tehran” and is launching attacks on Lebanon after Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at northern Israel. Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 30 killed in the Israeli attacks.
• Iranian state media says Israeli attacks have killed at least 20 people in Tehran’s Niloofar Square and caused damage to the Gandhi Hospital and a police building.
• Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel have hit the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and killed at least nine people in the central city of Beit Shemesh.
• US President Donald Trump has warned that attacks on Iran will continue until all of Washington’s objectives are achieved, and has promised to avenge the deaths of three US soldiers.

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  Israel announces ‘offensive campaign against Hezbollah’

  The Israeli army’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, made the announcement in a meeting after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel, according to the country’s military.

  “We have launched an offensive campaign against Hezbollah,” he was quoted as saying.

  This comes as Lebanese authorities said that Israeli air attacks on the country have so far killed at least 31 people and wounded 149 others.
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  More on Lebanon casualties

  According to a report by Lebanon’s National News Agency, the Israeli air attacks hit the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon.

  • 20 people were killed and 91 wounded in the capital’s suburbs;
  • 11 were killed and 58 wounded in the country’s south.

  Israel launched attacks in Lebanon after Hezbollah claimed a rocket attack on northern Israel ,widening the ongoing war in the region which started with joint US-Israel attacks on Iran.

  Israel also issued forced displacement threats, causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in the south.
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  Two killed in US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s Sanandaj

  The Iranian Fars news agency says at least two people have been killed in an “enemy attack” on the central city of Sanandaj.

  It said the city was targeted by enemy missiles and that several residential buildings next to the city’s police station were destroyed.

  The Tasnim news agency said US and Israeli forces dropped six missiles on different parts of the city, including densely populated neighbourhoods.

  Footage posted online and verified by Al Jazeera shows the moment  of one attack, with fire and huge clouds of smoke in the sky.