Sunday, March 1, 2026 – Iran
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Mar 1
- 3 min read
Updated: 7 hours ago
The U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, day two
Casualties
‣ Casualties in Iran
1. No official data on the number of casualties.
2. The number of casualties in yesterday’s attack on the girls’ school in Minab rose to 165 killed and 96 injured.
◦ UNESCO, responding to the bombing of the school in Minab: a grave violation of the protection afforded to schools under international law.
‣ Casualties in Israel
1. 10 killed, 9 of them in Bet Shemesh, including 4 children and one elderly man, 102, who fell and was injured on the way to a safe space.
2. Sirens across the country; impacts in Jerusalem (5 injured reported) and a direct hit on a synagogue in Bet Shemesh. Impact in Haifa (no location or damage reported) and shrapnel in Petah Tikva and Rosh HaAyin.
3. 2 injured from a drone strike on a building housing an Israeli representation in Abu Dhabi, both Israeli.
4. About 40 homes damaged by yesterday’s missile strike in Tel Aviv and about 500 families evacuated from their homes.
‣ Casualties in other countries
1. United Arab Emirates (3 killed and 58 injured), Pakistan (9 killed during a protest demonstration), United States (3 soldiers killed and 5 injured).
Iran
‣ Data
1. At least 72 incidents reported in 20 provinces in Iran. Tehran ranks first with 37 incidents. The composition of the attacks included:
◦ 39 missile strikes (54%);
◦ 32 incidents by unspecified methods (44%);
◦ one airstrike.
◦ Targets attacked in Tehran included the Red Crescent headquarters, Iranian state television headquarters, the courthouse, Gandhi Hospital, and the library building.
2. Among the incidents above, attacks on at least 30 sites or facilities were documented in 12 provinces, including:
◦ 15 military-security targets;
◦ 7 civilian infrastructure sites;
◦ 5 medical centers or emergency bases;◦ 2 residential buildings;
◦ one school.
3. The incidents were concentrated in two main time windows:
◦ 10:00-14:00: 36 events (about 50%);
◦ 21:00-22:00: 20 events (about 28%).
4. Nature of targets:
◦ unspecified targets: 34 cases (about 47%);
◦ military targets: 22 cases (about 31%);
◦ civilian objects: 9 cases (about 13%);
◦ dual-use objects: 7 cases (about 10%).
5. Damage assessment at the struck targets:
◦ severe: 41 cases (about 57%);
◦ undefined: 30 cases (about 42%);
◦ minor: one case.
‣ Events
1. Iranian television officially announces the death of Khamenei. Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Tehran protesting his death. Also reported dead: the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour; Mohammad Basri, senior official in the Ministry of Intelligence; Iranian army chief of staff, General Abdolrahim Mousavi; and the commander of Iranian police intelligence, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Rezaian.
2. Iran launches missile and drone attacks in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cyprus, and Israel. Targets include CIA headquarters, U.S. and British military bases (Cyprus), airports and seaports (Kuwait, Abu Dhabi), U.S. and Israeli diplomatic missions, warships, and oil tankers.
US military base in Iraq
3. An oil tanker flying the flag of Palau struck by the Iranian navy in the Strait of Hormuz, about 2 nautical miles north of Oman. More than 150 vessels halted in Gulf waters following the attack. A UAE oil platform also attacked.
4. Iran launched 4 ballistic missiles toward the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
‣ Protests across the Shiite world
1. Crowds gather around the U.S. embassy in Baghdad attempting to breach the compound; mass protests across Iraq. Mass protests in Kashmir (India). Break-in at the U.S. consulate building in Karachi, Pakistan, where 9 of the intruders were reported killed. Hundreds of thousands at a demonstration in Sana’a. Demonstration in Mauritania.
Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), HRANA-Human Rights Activists News Agency, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Jordan Valley Activists (Media groups), Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, OCHA OPT, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), Rosa News, Ta’ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, The Washington Post, WHO, yNet, Zirat War.
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