Trump warns Iran will be ‘hit very hard’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><strong>US president Donald Trump has warned that more Iranian officials would become targets in the war in the Middle East&comma; writing in a social media post&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Today Iran will be hit very hard&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump made the comments on his Truth Social website&comma; noting an apology by Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian earlier in the day to neighbouring nations over Tehran’s attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death&comma; because of Iran’s bad behavior&comma; are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time&comma;” Mr Trump wrote&comma; without elaborating&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Iranian president had earlier said that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dream that they should to take to their grave”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Pezeshkian made the statement in a pre-recorded address aired by Iranian state television&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187829" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187829" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;1082&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187829" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187829" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">A vigil was held in honour of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in New York<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>He also apologised for Iran’s attacks on regional countries&comma; insisting that Tehran would halt them and suggesting they were caused by miscommunication in the ranks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states on Saturday morning as Israel and the United States kept up their air strikes targeting the Islamic Republic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There were repeated attacks on Saturday morning on Bahrain&comma; Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Dubai&comma; several blasts were heard on Saturday morning and the government said it had activated air defences&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Passengers waiting for flights out at Dubai International Airport&comma; the world’s busiest for international travel&comma; found themselves ushered down into train tunnels at the sprawling airfield after the alert sounded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later that morning&comma; long-haul carrier Emirates resumed operations&comma; after briefly suspending all flights to and from Dubai&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities have not explained if there was an interception or damage at the airport&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump’s administration has approved a new 151 million dollar &lpar;£112 million&rpar; arms sale to Israel after the US president said he would not negotiate with Iran without its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unconditional surrender”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>US officials also warned of a forthcoming bombing campaign they said would be the most intense yet in the week-long conflict&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier&comma; Iran’s UN ambassador said the country would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;take all necessary measures” to defend itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Footage showed explosions and smoke rising over western Tehran as Israel said it had begun a broad wave of strikes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also early on Saturday&comma; loud booms sounded in Jerusalem and incoming missiles from Iran had people heading to bomb shelters across Israel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There were no immediate reports of casualties by Israel’s emergency services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Israeli warplanes have also hammered Beirut and Tehran&period; Death tolls continued to rise on Saturday with at least 1&comma;230 people killed in Iran&comma; more than 200 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel&comma; according to officials&period; Six US troops were reported killed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US and Israel have battered Iran with strikes&comma; targeting its military capabilities&comma; leadership and nuclear programme&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187833" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187833" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;1084&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187833" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187833" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Displaced people are fleeing Israeli air strikes in Dahiyeh&comma;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>The stated goals and timelines for the war have repeatedly shifted&comma; as the US has at times suggested it seeks to topple Iran’s government or elevate new leadership from within&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a sign of the widening nature of the conflict&comma; sirens sounded early on Saturday in Bahrain as Iranian attacks targeted the island kingdom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Saudi Arabia said it had destroyed drones heading for its vast Shaybah oil field and shot down a ballistic missile launched toward Prince Sultan Air Base&comma; which hosts US forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bahrain’s military intercepted two missiles and a drone on Saturday&comma; the defence ministry said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That brought to 86 missiles and 148 drones that have been intercepted over Bahrain since the US and Israel launched war against Iran last weekend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Qatar’s energy minister&comma; Saad al-Kaabi&comma; warned in an interview with the Financial Times that the war could &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bring down the economies of the world”&comma; predicting a widespread shutdown of Gulf energy exports that could send oil to 150 dollars a barrel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The price for a barrel of benchmark US crude rose above 90 dollars on Friday for the first time in more than two years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Writing for the Qatar-funded satellite news network Al Jazeera&comma; a regional analyst warned Iran was making &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a strategic miscalculation of historic proportions”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sultan al-Khulaifi&comma; a senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies&comma; wrote&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By spreading the conflict to the Gulf&comma; Tehran is doing precisely what Israel could not do alone&colon; steering the war away from the Israeli-Iranian axis and transforming it into a confrontation between Iran and its Arab neighbours&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187835" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187835" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;1085&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187835" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187835" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">A symbolic funeral was held for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Baghdad&comma; Iraq<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>On Saturday&comma; the defence minister of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s army chief met to discuss ways to stop the attacks coming from Iran&comma; the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman&comma; a son of King Salman&comma; spoke to Field Marshal Asim Munir in Riyadh about the Iranian attacks&period; Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defence pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships&comma; aircraft and other assets in the region&comma; according to officials&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They cautioned that the US intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran on what to do with the information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This marks the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Israel has said that over the past week it has heavily bombed an extensive underground bunker that Iranian leaders had planned to use during the hostilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>New information has surfaced suggesting that a deadly explosion at a school in the Iranian city of Minab&comma; some 680 miles south-east of Tehran&comma; was likely caused by US air strikes&period; The information includes satellite images&comma; expert analysis&comma; and public information released by US and Israeli military forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iranian state media has said more than 165 people were killed in the blast&comma; most of them of children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iran has blamed Israel and the US for the explosion&period; Neither country has accepted responsibility&comma; though American defence secretary Pete Hegseth said the US is investigating&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; India’s foreign minister said on Saturday that an Iranian naval vessel has docked in India&comma; after a US submarine sank an Iranian warship and another vessel sought assistance from Sri Lanka&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the IRIS Lavan is docked in southern Kochi city&comma; after India granted permission when the vessel reported &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;having problems” on March 1&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think it was the humane thing to do&comma;” Mr Jaishankar said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A US submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday&period; Another vessel&comma; the IRIS Bushehr&comma; requested assistance from Sri Lanka and more than 200 sailors were brought ashore&period; Both ships had previously taken part in naval exercises hosted by India&comma; 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