Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday apologized to neighboring countries that have been attacked by Iran, adding that future attacks will only take place in response to an attack.
“I should apologize to the neighboring countries that were attacked by Iran, on my own behalf,” he said, according to The Associated Press. “From now on, they should not attack neighboring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked by those countries. I think we should solve this through diplomacy.”
Pezeshkian made the apology during a prerecorded televised speech on Saturday after Iran launched repeated strikes on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The decision came after Iran's temporary leadership council talked with the country's armed forces amid alleged miscommunication in the ranks following the deaths of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other leaders.
Pezeshkian also stated during the speech that the United States' demand for an unconditional surrender is a "dream that they should take to their grave." The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Huckabee says embassy working ‘24/7’ to evacuate Americans amid Iran war
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee marked one week of war with Iran on Saturday, saying the embassy is working around the clock to evacuate Americans.
Huckabee said in a lengthy post on X that the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is operating on a 24-hour schedule to help Americans return home.
“We have now successfully evacuated thousands of people using every means possible,” he said.
Huckabee strongly pushed back on media reports claiming “nothing was being done” to help Americans.
“Total lie,” he said. “In the early hours and first days of war, the safest decision and what we urged our own embassy personnel to do was stay close to shelter.”
The ambassador praised President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran, saying military action was necessary to stop the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“Had the fanatical religious zealots obtained a nuclear warhead … they would have used it on America,” he said.
Huckabee also addressed rumors that he had left Israel.
“The ambassador is the last one to leave. It’s how it works,” he said. “First duty is to American citizens. They are our real bosses.”
OPINION: Here come the big bombs as US escalates strikes on Iran's huge military arsenal
A general view of Tehran with smoke visible in the distance after
explosions were reported in the city on March 6, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was confirmed killed
after the US and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on Saturday,
Feb. 28. (Contributor/Getty Images)This post is an excerpt from an opinion article by Dr. Rebecca Grant. Grant is vice president of the Lexington Institute.
"Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to," Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at U.S. Central Command headquarters on Thursday.
From a tactical perspective, the scale of the airstrikes unleashed in Operation Epic Fury indicates that the U.S. almost waited too long. Starting the campaign to take out Iran’s ballistic missiles and drones required strikes on almost 2,000 aimpoints in just the first few days. That’s one munition per aimpoint, and there could be thousands more to go.
It was now or never. Iran planned to stockpile missiles and drones and build a handful of nuclear weapons that no military force could reach. "Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs," U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said Tuesday.
The terrifying scale of Iran’s target set went unnoticed by most of the world until last Saturday.
Imagine how difficult this job would have been in a few years — especially with Russia and China helping Iran restock.
"This operation needed to happen because Iran, in about a year or a year and a half, would cross the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many short-range missiles, so many drones that no one could do anything about it because they could hold the whole world hostage," Rubio said on Capitol Hill on Monday. "Look at the damage they’re doing now. And this is a weakened Iran … imagine a year from now," he added.
With Iran’s command and control degraded and air defenses flattened, the southern air ingress approaches to the country are wide open. "And now, with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound GPS--and laser-guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile," Hegseth said at the Pentagon on Wednesday.
Here come the big bombs to take on hundreds of targets. Those targets include factories, weapons storage sites and every IRGC facility U.S. forces can find. And it’s all happening while a 2,000-mile arc of aerial defense continues.
Israel strikes key Iranian military targets in Tehran, IDF says
Israel said Saturday that its air force struck “key Iranian regime military infrastructure” in Iran.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces, more than 80 jets struck targets in Tehran and central Iran.
“These strikes degrade the Iranian regime’s ability to fire at Israeli civilians,” the IDF said.
The IDF said it struck Imam Hossein Military University, which it described as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps training and assembly compound.
The military also said it targeted ballistic missile storage facilities, underground missile command infrastructure and launch sites aimed at Israel.
Trump says US 'doing very well' in Iran nearly 1 week into joint action against Tehran
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President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. is "doing very well" in Iran, nearly a week after the military coordinated with Israel on airstrikes in Tehran that left its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dead.
"Somebody said, ‘How would you score it from zero to 10?’ I said, ‘I'd give it a 12 to a 15.’ Their army is gone. Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone," Trump said. "Two sets of their leaders."
The president made the remarks after Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked at the end of a White House college sports roundtable what was motivating Trump to hold the roundtable "because there is a lot of other stuff going on in the world."
"That’s right," Trump agreed, adding that Iran’s air force has been "wiped out entirely. Think of it. They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean. Other than that, they're doing very well."
"Our military is doing phenomenally," he said. "The situation with a very bad and very sick group of leaders who were killing a lot of people. A lot of our people were being killed or were being maimed. … And we had a choice. We could take it and go on like that for years or do something about it. And we did something about it."
Trump added that "people are very impressed with our military, and they admire our military with what happened in Venezuela, what's happening now, what's happened with the B-2 bombers before this, where they took out the nuclear capability or potential of Iran.
"I think we're, right now, we're a country that's more respected than we've ever been respected before."
This post is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson
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