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#BBCNews - Lyse Doucet: This is an extraordinary moment Iran has been preparing for
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98g91wgdd8o
an Iranian state TV presenter tearfully announced the passing of " the steadfast mountain of the Islamic guardianship" who "drank the sweet pure draught of martyrdom."

Lyse Doucet: This is an extraordinary moment Iran has been preparing for

The killing of the supreme leader will be a huge jolt to the Islamic Republic, which will try hard to show it has a plan in place.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

#BBCNews live page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t
Israel and Iran exchange fresh attacks after Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei killed

Trump says 'there will likely be more' US deaths as Iran strikes to continue until 'all' goals achieved

Three American service members have been killed and casualties are reported in the UAE, Israel and Kuwait as Israel and Iran continue to trade strikes.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

#BBCNews - UK bases in Middle East at risk of 'increasingly indiscriminate' attacks by Iran, Healey tells BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8g5mv5jzrt

UK bases in Middle East at risk of 'increasingly indiscriminate' attacks by Iran, Healey tells BBC

John Healey and the shadow defence secretary Priti Patel are on the show after Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during a US-Israeli attack.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

V BBC Middle East corr:
Israel’s Channel 12 says the country’s air force killed a total of 30 senior Iranian officials - including Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - “in just half a minute in the opening strike” against its longstanding enemy yesterday.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

Iran says its air force pilots successfully bombed US bases in the Gulf countries and the Kurdistan region of Iraq, according to the state news agency IRNA, adding that all "enemy military centres" in the region are within reach of the Air Force's fighter jets.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

Hundreds of pro-Iran protesters took to the streets in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad following US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

An official of the private rescue service Edhi Foundation also confirmed that they shifted nine dead bodies and dozens injured to hospital. Clashes started when police tried to stop demonstrators from entering the US consulate

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has named a new commander in chief, Ahmad Vahidi.

The previous commander. Gen Mohammad Pakpour, was killed in the joint Israeli US attacks on Iran on Saturday.

More on the IRGC from #TheGlobalJigsaw https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7yv8

BBC World Service - The Global Jigsaw, What’s Iran’s IRGC?

The engine powering Tehran’s “Axis of resistance”

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

Some of the senior Iranian figures killed yesterday:
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader (with his daughter, son-in-law and grandchild)

armed forces chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi

commander of the Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

#BBCNews - Iran's regime is still intact - the coming days will show if it can hold out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgvg5rl1o

Iran's regime is still intact - the coming days will show if it can hold out

Iran's surviving leaders are in crisis mode, battling to project security as US and Israel strikes continue.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

#BBCNews - Three ships attacked near Strait of Hormuz as fears grow of oil price rises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75evve6l63o

Three ships attacked near Strait of Hormuz as fears grow of oil price rises

International shipping is said to have come to a standstill at the strait's entrance, with fears of disruption already pushing up global oil prices.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

#BBCNews - At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says
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At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says

Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is "not aware" of operations in the area.

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

Centcom says three American service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in action

Iranian state media reports that the IRGC claims to have attacked the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier with four ballistic missiles, but Centcom says Tehran's missiles "did not even come close"

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

The IDF accuses Iran of "killing innocent civilians" after nine people died in a missile strike on the city of Beit Shemesh - our Middle East correspondent describes it as the deadliest attack in Israel so far in this conflict

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

A senior Bahraini official tonight tells BBC's Frank Gardner that the US Navy’s 5th fleet base in Bahrain was struck by an Iranian drone that caused a major fire.

The drone impacted right next to the UK naval facility that adjoins the US area but there were no casualties

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Kriszta Satori Mar 1

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz call on Tehran to end the strikes as they say they are prepared to take the necessary steps to defend their interests in the Middle East.

"We will take steps to defend our interests and those of our allies in the region, potentially through enabling necessary and proportionate defensive action to destroy Iran’s capability to fire missiles and drones at their source"