Here are some satellite images taken today showing significant damage at Iranian government and military buildings, as well as a hospital.

Iran war live updates: Trump says US may escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz; IDF launches strikes on Iran

US president orders Washington to provide insurance for commercial shipping in the crucial strait; Israeli military says it has launched a ‘broad wave’ of strikes

Tue 3 Mar 2026 18.46 EST

First published on Mon 2 Mar 2026 23.52 EST- UAE says it was exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran - Fire near US embassy in Dubai - Trump says US Navy to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz 'if necessary' - France sending only aircraft carrier to Mediterranean and further defences to Cyprus, Macron says - British F-35 jets shoot down drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar - Israeli military says it struck a compound in Iran operated to develop capabilities for nuclear weapons - US military says it has hit more than 1,700 targets since beginning of operation against Iran - Israel says it killed commander of Iran's Quds Force in Lebanon - The day so far - Trump says he is 'not happy' with UK and 'cuts off' all trade with Spain over Iran - Trump insists Israel did not force US hand and repeats claim Iran was going to attack first - IDF claims to have struck building housing Iran's Assembly of Experts - report - IDF announces more strikes on Tehran - Tens of thousands of people left stranded in the Middle East as conflict complicates routes home - UK considering sending warship to Cyprus to defend RAF airbase - Interim summary - UAE air defences tallied 186 missiles, 812 drones launched toward country since start of conflict - Drone crashes near Salalah port in Oman - Amid soaring energy prices, QatarEnergy to halt production of some downstream products - Iran’s women’s team decline to sing national anthem before Asian Cup tie - At least 30,000 displaced in Lebanon, UN says - IAEA confirms damage to Iran's Natanz nuclear site - Iranian Red Crescent updates death toll to 787 - Albanese working with UAE over Australians stranded because of flight disruptions - State media: Oman port targeted in suspected drone strike - Israel accuses Spanish prime minister of being on wrong side of history - Trump criticises Starmer, laments US-UK relationship in interview with The Sun - IDF positions soldiers in southern Lebanon - Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege that threatens hunger crisis - Interim summary - US orders 'non-emergency’ staff to leave Qatar and Kuwait - US orders 'non-emergency’ staff to leave Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq - Iran claims attack on US air base in Bahrain - US claims to have destroyed Iranian Revolutionary Guards' command facilities - Opening summary

• UAE says it was exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran
• Fire near US embassy in Dubai
• Trump says US Navy to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz 'if necessary'
• France sending only aircraft carrier to Mediterranean and further defences to Cyprus, Macron says
• British F-35 jets shoot down drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar
• Israeli military says it struck a compound in Iran operated to develop capabilities for nuclear weapons
• US military says it has hit more than 1,700 targets since beginning of operation against Iran
• Israel says it killed commander of Iran's Quds Force in Lebanon
• The day so far
• Trump says he is 'not happy' with UK and 'cuts off' all trade with Spain over Iran
• Trump insists Israel did not force US hand and repeats claim Iran was going to attack first
• IDF claims to have struck building housing Iran's Assembly of Experts - report
• IDF announces more strikes on Tehran
• Tens of thousands of people left stranded in the Middle East as conflict complicates routes home
• UK considering sending warship to Cyprus to defend RAF airbase
• Interim summary
• UAE air defences tallied 186 missiles, 812 drones launched toward country since start of conflict
• Drone crashes near Salalah port in Oman
• Amid soaring energy prices, QatarEnergy to halt production of some downstream products
• Iran’s women’s team decline to sing national anthem before Asian Cup tie
• At least 30,000 displaced in Lebanon, UN says
• IAEA confirms damage to Iran's Natanz nuclear site
• Iranian Red Crescent updates death toll to 787
• Albanese working with UAE over Australians stranded because of flight disruptions
• State media: Oman port targeted in suspected drone strike
• Israel accuses Spanish prime minister of being on wrong side of history
• Trump criticises Starmer, laments US-UK relationship in interview with The Sun
• IDF positions soldiers in southern Lebanon
• Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege that threatens hunger crisis
• Interim summary
• US orders 'non-emergency’ staff to leave Qatar and Kuwait
• US orders 'non-emergency’ staff to leave Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq
• Iran claims attack on US air base in Bahrain
• US claims to have destroyed Iranian Revolutionary Guards' command facilities
• Opening summary

The Israel Defence Forces said it has destroyed approximately 300 missile launchers in Iran and struck several targets in Lebanon.

The IDF said in a statement: “In the past 24 hours, hundreds of fighter jets and aircraft have been striking hundreds of targets simultaneously in Iran and Lebanon,”, adding that 4,000 munitions have been deployed in Iran since the start of the operation over the weekend.

“As part of the defensive effort, the Israeli Air Force continues to conduct successive waves of strikes against the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile arrays and air defence systems,” the IDF said.

Thousands of mourners filled the streets of Minab, southern Iran, today during the mass funeral of victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school – the worst mass casualty event since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran.

The attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people, dozens of them children attending class on Saturday morning.

Three paramedics have been killed and six were wounded in Lebanon’s Tyre district as they were recovering victims after an airstrike, according to the World Health Organisation’s office in Lebanon.

The WHO said health workers “must never be targeted”.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has given more details on a drone striking a car park adjacent to the U.S. consulate in Dubai.

He said: “As I came in, I also saw the media reports about Dubai’s consulate. The last update I had with seconds before getting before these cameras was that a drone unfortunately struck a parking lot adjacent to the to the Chancery building, and then set off a fire in that place.”

“All personnel are accounted for. As you’re aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this,” Rubio added.

He said: “But our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime”.

UAE says it was exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran

The UAE’s foreign ministry said it has been exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran since it launched retaliatory strikes in the region in response to US-Israeli strikes.

It added it did not allow its territory to be used in any attack on Iran and it has not taken any decision to change its defensive stance towards the attacks, Reuters reports.

Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon told reporters the Lebanese government should act now against Hezbollah to prevent further escalation.

Danon added more than a year since the UN security council reaffirmed that Hezbollah must disarm and withdraw from south Lebanon, “it has done the exact opposite.”

He added: “We expect the Lebanese Government to restrain Hezbollah. Take control, act now to prevent further escalation.”

Fire near US embassy in Dubai

Authorities have put out a limited fire in the vicinity of the US consulate in Dubai due to a drone strike and no injuries were reported, Dubai’s media office said.

Smoke was seen rising from an area near the consulate, two witnesses told Reuters.

Trump says US Navy to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz 'if necessary'

Donald Trump has said the US Navy will begin escorting tankers through the strait of Hormuz as soon as possible “if necessary”.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president also said he had ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation to provide insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, including oil tankers, traveling through the Gulf region.

Iran closed the strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical shipping routes, last night, and threatened to attack any ship that tries to pass through, causing oil prices to soar.

Sustained disruption of shipping traffic in the strait, through which roughly 15% of the world’s oil and 20% of its liquefied natural gas passes, poses significant risk to the global economy.

France sending only aircraft carrier to Mediterranean and further defences to Cyprus, Macron says

in Paris

The French president Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation that he has ordered the French aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, its air assets and its frigate escort to set sail for the Mediterranean.

He said France has defence agreements with Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE and must show solidarity, but he said any action by France was “strictly defensive”.

France must support its allies in the region and show it was a partner to be trusted, Macron said, adding that French anti-air systems and air radars had been deployed and would continue to be so.

France would also send defence systems to Cyprus and a frigate which would arrive off the coast of Cyprus tonight, the president said.