10 Mar, 2026 07:09
Iran reveals civilian death toll and warns Trump of ‘elimination’ (VIDEOS)
Iran’s top security official has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threats after he vowed to strike Iran “twenty times harder” if it continues to threaten the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the US-Israeli attacks.
The strikes have killed at least 1,332 civilians across Iran since Washington and West Jerusalem began their attack more than a week ago, the Iranian Red Crescent has reported.
Iranian National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani branded Trump’s threats “empty,” writing on Telegram: “Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Be careful not to be eliminated!”
A new wave of US-Israeli strikes has killed at least 40 people in Tehran, bringing the number of Iranian civilians killed by the US-Israeli war to over 1,300.
Trump has also strongly criticized Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was elected as Iran’s supreme leader following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has threatened to assassinate anyone who takes the post.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held a phone call with Trump on Monday, said the escalating conflict risks entirely choking off the region’s oil exports through the now “de-facto closed” Strait of Hormuz. RT has assessed the impact of $100 oil, and the subsequent rise in Urals oil, for Russia.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has reportedly promised full freedom of passage to ships from any Arab or European country that expels US and Israeli ambassadors.
• The price of Russian Urals oil has surged to a premium over Brent, which which peaked at over $120 on Monday. Trump has dismissed the spike as “a very small price to pay” for the war against Iran.
• As of Tuesday, the US-Israeli attacks have killed over 1,300 Iranian civilians, according to official data from Iran.
• The deadliest attack yet was a strike on a girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran that killed 168 children. Multiple media outlets have concluded from available footage that the school was hit by a US Tomahawk missile. Trump has dismissed the reports, insisting that Tehran is to blame.
• The US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities near Tehran have produced a “black rain” of toxic oil and soot, with residents reporting breathing difficulties. Online images and footage show thick smog over the capital, as Iran’s Red Crescent Society warns that the rain could be “highly dangerous and acidic.”
• At least 13 Israelis have been killed in the crossfire so far. Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases in the region have killed at least four in the UAE, one in Bahrain, six in Kuwait, and two in Saudi Arabia.Follow our live coverage below for continuous updates.
10 March 2026
17:36 GMTIsrael has taken out most of the central assets of Iran’s internal security forces and the IRGC’s Basij paramilitary militia in Ilam Province, the IDF has claimed.
The targets included the regional headquarters of the Islamic Republic’s internal security forces and its central intelligence unit, as well as several senior military officials, the IDF said in a statement.
- 17:24 GMT
No vessels associated with the US or Israel have “the right to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” the commander of the IRGC Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, has warned.
“If you have any doubt, come closer and test it,” he posted on X.
- 17:17 GMT
Iran’s Press TV broadcaster has published footage of an unexploded 2,000 pound bomb being removed from a residential building in Koohdasht, Iran.
- 17:13 GMT
No power in history has succeeded in destroying the 6,000-year-old civilization that Iran is heir to, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said.
“Anyone who entertains the illusion of destroying Iran knows nothing of history,” he wrote on X.
“Aggressors have come and gone; Iran has endured.”
- 17:04 GMT
Trump does not have an exit strategy for the Iran conflict, Democratic Senator Mark Kelly told reporters at the US Capitol, according to AP.
“Clearly they do not have a strategic goal,” he reportedly said. “They didn’t have a plan. They have no timeline. And because of that they have no exit strategy.”
- 16:56 GMT
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf has warned the US and Israel against attacking civilian infrastructure, threatening retaliation.
“No evil goes unanswered, we today decree the rule of ‘an eye for an eye’, without exception,” he wrote on X.
“If they start a war on infrastructure, we will undoubtedly target infrastructure.”
- 16:30 GMT
The US had spent $5.6 billion in munitions in the first two days of its attacks on Iran, the Pentagon has estimated in a report to Congress, according to CNN.
However, the enormous figure does not include other war-related expenses, AP has reported, citing an anonymous source familiar with the assessment.
- 16:22 GMT
The IRGC has claimed to have struck US and Israeli facilities across the Middle East in its latest drone and missile salvo.
The US naval base in Bahrain and an air base in the UAE were struck by a combined drone and missile attack, the corps said in a statement cited by the Fars news agency.
Israel’s Ramat David air base and “hidden missile launchers” east of Tel Aviv were also hit by missiles, the statement added.
- 16:19 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian about the US-Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic in the second phone call this week, the Kremlin has announced.
“The Russian President reaffirmed his principled position in favor of a swift de-escalation of the conflict and its resolution through political means,” the Kremlin said. Pezeshkian thanked Moscow for its support, especially regarding deliveries of humanitarian aid to Iran, the statement said.
- 15:44 GMT
Medical personnel have been dispatched to Beit Shemesh following reports of an Iranian ballistic missile strike, Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom has said.
