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The #US & #Israel launched a major attack on targets across #Iran Saturday.

#Trump urged Iranians to take cover during the strikes, but then said “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.” It was an extraordinary appeal that suggested the allies could be seeking to end of the country’s theocracy after decades of tensions.

#US #Iran #war #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://apnews.com/live/live-updates-israel-iran-february-28-2026?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-28-Breaking+News

AP News

Live updates: Tehran launches retaliatory strikes as Trump calls for regime change

The U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Saturday. President Donald Trump said the Iranian public should “take over" their government. The first strikes appeared to target Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

#Israel PM Benjamin #Netanyahu echoed that sweeping goal. “Our joint operation will create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their fate into their own hands,” he said.

In a video posted on social media, #Trump claimed #Iran has continued to develop its #nuclear program & plans to develop missiles to reach the #US.

#RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

The first strikes of the attack appeared to target the compound home to Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei in downtown Tehran. It wasn’t immediately clear if he was there at the time. Smoke could be seen rising from the Iranian capital.

#US #Iran #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

#Iran responded as it had been threatening to do for months — first launching a wave of missiles & drones targeting #Israel. It followed with strikes targeting #US #military installations in #Bahrain, #Kuwait & #Qatar. The #UAE & #Iraq shut down their airspace.

#war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

#Trump indicated the #US was striking for reasons far beyond the #nuclear program, listing grievances stretching back to the beginning of the Islamic Republic following a revolution in 1979 that turned #Iran from one of America’s closest allies in the #MiddleEast into a fierce foe.

Read Trump’s address in full∶
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-trump-address-f662a4f3378535d81197be699fb35a3e

#war #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics

AP News

Read President Trump’s statement on Iran in full

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an 8-minute video posted on his Truth Social that the U.S. has begun “major combat operations in Iran.”

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

#Iran on Saturday said the #US - #Israel airstrikes in southern Iran killed students at a #girls’ #school, the first confirmed fatalities in the operation.

The death toll at the girls’ school has risen to at least 40 people killed, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

At least 45 others had been wounded in the attack in Minab in Iran’s Hormozgan province.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard [ #IRGC] has a base in the city.

#war #Trump #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

#Israel said the attack against #Iran was a “broad, coordinated, & joint operation against the regime” that had been planned for months between the Israeli & #US #military.

PM #Netanyahu said in a recorded message released Saturday morning that Israel plans the current operation to be “much more powerful” than the bruising 12-day war Israel launched against Iran in June.

#war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

Two officials with different #Iran backed #militias in #Iraq told The Associated Press that a meeting took place two months ago between Iranian officials & allied Iraqi militias to make plans for a response in case Iran was attacked, including distributing tasks among the Iraqi armed groups.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

#US #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

One of the officials said it was decided that the response would target #US forces & interests in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region & in neighboring #Jordan.

US troops have vacated bases where they were previously stationed in #Iraq in areas under the control of the central government in Baghdad as a result of an agreement to end the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, but they remain in the Kurdish region.

#Iran #war #Trump #law

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