Azerbaijan says Iran's drones hit school, airport as war spreads on day 6

Azerbaijan's overseas ministry said Iranian drones deed an airdrome terminal and a schoolhouse gathering connected Thursday, informing that it reserved "the close to instrumentality due retaliatory measures" against its confederate neighbor.

It was the archetypal interaction reported by Azerbaijan amid the widening warfare sparked by the associated U.S.-Israeli battle connected Iran connected Saturday.

"One drone crashed into the terminal gathering of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Airport, and different drone crashed adjacent a schoolhouse gathering successful the colony of Shekarabad," the overseas ministry said successful a statement.

"We powerfully condemn these drone attacks carried retired from the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted successful harm to the airdrome gathering and the wounded of 2 civilians," the ministry said, demanding that "Iran clarify the supra contented wrong a abbreviated play of time, supply an explanation, and instrumentality the indispensable and urgent measures to forestall specified incidents from recurring successful the future."

A drone explodes astatine the airdrome of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, successful a screengrab obtained from a societal media video posted connected March 5, 2026.  Social Media/via REUTERS

"The Azerbaijani broadside reserves the close to instrumentality due retaliatory measures," it said, adding that Iran's apical diplomat successful the state had been summoned.

Iran's authoritative authorities quality bureau Fars quoted a commandant of the country's Revolutionary Guard Corps arsenic saying Thursday that the coming days would bring "more aggravated and widespread" attacks by the Islamic Republic.

Iranian authorities tv aired a connection earlier successful the time from an ayatollah successful Iran calling for the "shedding" of humor from Israelis and President Trump.

The connection from Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli represented 1 of the fewer statements from Iran's almighty Islamic clerics since the warfare began.

"We are present connected the verge of a large trial and we indispensable beryllium cautious to afloat sphere this unity, to afloat sphere this alliance," Amoli said, adding a telephone for "the shedding of Zionist blood, the shedding of Trump's blood."

Israel's airspace reopened for constricted incoming flights Thursday aft being closed since the associated U.S.-Israeli warfare connected Iran began.

Under the phased plan, 1 rider formation per hr volition beryllium allowed successful the archetypal 24 hours, totaling astir 5,000 people, with much aboriginal depending connected security.

Outgoing commercialized flights are inactive prohibited.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed an onslaught Thursday connected an American lipid tanker successful the bluish reaches of the Persian Gulf, but it appears to person been a Bahamas-flagged vessel that reported a imaginable sea-drone strike.

Maritime information agencies including Vanguard said the onslaught claimed by Iran was apt against the Sonangol Namibe, which was tracked disconnected the seashore of Kuwait connected Thursday.

The institution that operates the lipid tanker, Sonangol Marine Services, told CBS News successful a connection connected Thursday that it was "approached by an chartless tiny vas portion anchored adjacent Khor Al Zubair, Iraq" aboriginal connected Thursday, "and a abbreviated clip aboriginal a large bang was heard."

"All 23 unit members are harmless and accounted for and person mustered wrong the ship. The unit reports that a larboard ballast vessel is losing h2o which suggests immoderate signifier of hull breach but the vessel remains unchangeable and safely afloat. The vessel was successful ballast with nary cargo connected committee and determination presently are nary reports of immoderate pollution," the institution said.

The British maritime information bureau UKMTO earlier reported an detonation disconnected the larboard broadside of the tanker, which lines up with accusation provided by the Namibe's operators. Public tracking information showed the tanker adjacent the Iraq-Kuwait borderline successful the acold bluish Persian Gulf. 

CBS News has obtained outer imagery showing the tract of a schoolhouse successful Minab, confederate Iran, wherever Iranian officials say a U.S. oregon Israeli onslaught killed arsenic galore arsenic 175 people implicit the weekend, galore of them schoolgirls. 

CBS News had antecedently confirmed that the gathering was located successful adjacent proximity to 2 sites controlled by the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the IRGC's Seyyed Al-Shohada Barracks.

Analysis of images shared by Planet Labs shows the schoolhouse was not the lone gathering damaged astatine the site. Imagery captured 4 days aft the purported Feb. 28 onslaught shows different collapsed gathering much intelligibly wrong the IRGC site, and a spread successful the extortion of different building, arsenic good arsenic rubble successful the area.

CBS News investigation of outer images provided by Planet Labs shows that a girls schoolhouse successful Minab, confederate Iran (circled successful yellow) was apt not the lone people deed successful a Feb. 28, 2026, U.S. oregon Israeli onslaught that Iran claims killed much than 170 children. The earlier (left) and aft (right) photos amusement a gathering (circled successful red) that appears to beryllium wrong the compound of a known Iranian subject base, that was destroyed, on with different gathering (blue circle) successful which a spread tin beryllium seen successful the extortion connected the aboriginal photo. Planet Labs PBC/CBS/Joanne Stocker

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has said it was down the strike. An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told CBS News earlier successful the week that the IDF had not "found immoderate transportation to our operations." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Pentagon was investigating.

"Mr. Trump! Was this the hymn you composed for state successful Iran?!," Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, raged successful a societal media post connected Thursday, condemning what helium called "the wide martyrdom of guiltless girls successful Minab astatine a schoolhouse by Israeli–American criminals."

The Israeli subject said it launched targeted attacks successful Lebanon astatine the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, on with a "large-scale question of strikes against infrastructure" successful Iran's capital, without elaborating. 

Explosions were heard successful aggregate locations successful Tehran a abbreviated clip later.

People tally arsenic fume rises pursuing an explosion, amid the U.S.-Israeli struggle with Iran, successful Tehran, Iran, March 5, 2026.  Majid Asgaripour/WANA/via REUTERS

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The Senate defeated a warfare powers solution that sought to artifact President Trump from utilizing further military unit against Iran, rejecting a Democratic propulsion to rebuke the president amid the administration's shifting justifications for the warfare and warnings astir much American casualties to come.

The measurement was voted down 47-53.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Wednesday that Israel and the U.S. did not person "much of a choice" but to "take action" and onslaught Iran. 

In an interrogation with "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil, Herzog said determination were concerns that Iran was going to grow its weapons arsenal, and that the U.S. and Israel believed Iran had "another caller concealed program to rush" to make a atomic weapon.

"When you cognize that they person invested each their nation's resources and wealth successful creating havoc successful the Middle East arsenic you effort to marque bid with Muslim countries," Herzog said. "When you cognize that they person different caller concealed program to unreserved to the bomb, you person to instrumentality action." 

The U.S. quality community assessed past year that Iran was not gathering a atomic weapon, and the U.S. and Israel haven't provided grounds of a caller program to make atomic bombs. Iran has agelong insisted its uranium enrichment programme is lone intended for peaceful purposes, though it enriches good beyond the level needed for non-weapons uses.

Herzog besides said that Israel is not calling for a crushed penetration of the country.

"Let maine beryllium clear, I'm not calling connected immoderate boots connected the ground. I'm not asking immoderate American oregon anyone else," Herzog said.

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