Defiant Iran vows to keep fighting war with U.S. "as long as it takes"

Iran launched caller attacks Tuesday astatine Gulf Arab countries arsenic it keeps up unit connected the region.

Incoming rocket sirens sounded aboriginal successful the greeting successful Dubai successful the United Arab Emirates and successful Bahrain, portion Saudi Arabia said it had destroyed 2 drones implicit its oil-rich eastbound portion and Kuwait's National Guard said it had changeable down six drones.

One Iranian drone onslaught deed a residential gathering successful Bahrain's capital, Manama, overnight, sidesplitting a 29-year-old pistillate and wounding 8 others, the country's Interior Ministry said. 

The UAE ministry blamed the deaths connected "blatant Iranian aggression against a residential gathering successful Manama."

A gathering damaged successful a reported Iranian drone strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli struggle with Iran, successful Manama, Bahrain, March 10, 2026. Stringer/REUTERS

Iran has repeatedly deed Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. 5th Fleet.

Israeli strikes besides deed confederate and eastbound Lebanon overnight, authorities media reported Tuesday, arsenic Israel targets the Lebanese radical Hezbollah, a almighty Iran proxy.

In summation to firing missiles and drones astatine Israel and American bases successful the region, Iran has been targeting vigor infrastructure which, combined with its stranglehold connected the Strait of Hormuz, sent lipid prices soaring aboriginal this week.

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The United Arab Emirates said its consulate successful the bluish Iraqi metropolis of Erbil was targeted with drones connected Tuesday, aft Iran vowed to proceed its attacks against U.S. interests and allies successful the region. 

"The United Arab Emirates has powerfully condemned and denounced the unprovoked violent drone onslaught that targeted the UAE Consulate General successful the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which resulted successful worldly harm with nary injuries reported," the UAE Foreign Ministry said successful a statement, adding that "such acts correspond a unsafe escalation and a menace to determination information and stability."

The semi-autonomous Iraqi region's Kurdistan Regional Government besides issued a connection powerfully condemning what it called unlawful attacks targeting civilians, civilian institutions, and diplomatic missions, citing the overnight onslaught connected the UAE's mission.

The U.S. subject has a important fig of troops and hardware deployed to bases astatine Erbil's planetary airdrome and conscionable extracurricular the city, and determination is besides a U.S. consulate successful the city. The U.S. bases person been targeted by Iranian drones since the warfare began, but determination person been nary casualties.

"I don't deliberation talking with the Americans would beryllium connected our docket anymore," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told PBS News connected Monday, saying Tehran had a "very bitter experience" during erstwhile negotiations with the U.S.

Iran has responded to the U.S.-Israeli attacks with drone and rocket strikes targeting Israel and U.S. interests and Gulf Arab states crossed the region. Shipping postulation done the strategical Strait of Hormuz, done which astir 20% of the world's crude lipid usually transits, has crushed to a virtual halt.

Iranian forces person repeatedly targeted lipid tankers passing done the strategical waterway since the warfare began.

In the interrogation with PBS News, Araghchi insisted that Iran was acting successful "self-defense," and helium insisted that the Islamic Republic was "prepared to proceed attacking them with our missiles arsenic agelong arsenic needed and arsenic agelong arsenic it takes."

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Iran's almighty Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) mocked President Trump's evident bid to lessen the economical interaction of the war, warning: "The Iranian equipped forces ... volition not let the export of a azygous liter of lipid from the portion to the hostile broadside and its partners until further notice."

"It is we who volition find the extremity of the war," said the IRGC, which is seen arsenic adjacent to Iran's caller ultimate person Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, successful a connection carried by Iranian authorities media. "The equations and aboriginal presumption of the portion are present successful the hands of our equipped forces. American forces volition not extremity the war."

Mr. Trump indicated Monday that helium would determine erstwhile the warfare would extremity and threatened to onslaught Iran "TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they person been deed frankincense far" if it continues blocking the travel of crude lipid tankers done the Strait of Hormuz.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel's subject violative against Iran was "not done yet," saying the cognition was degrading Iran's clerical leadership.

"Our aspiration is to bring the Iranian radical to formed disconnected the yoke of tyranny; ultimately, it depends connected them. But determination is nary uncertainty that with the actions taken truthful far, we are breaking their bones - and we are not done yet," Netanyahu said during a sojourn to the National Health Command Center connected Monday night, according to a connection published Tuesday.

Netanyahu's rhetoric came aft somewhat mixed signals from the Trump administration. President Trump said Monday that the warfare was "going to beryllium ended soon" and that U.S. objectives were "pretty good complete." 

Asked astir the Pentagon posting connected X the aforesaid time that, "We person Only Just Begun to Fight," Mr. Trump said: "I deliberation you could accidental it both. The beginning, it's the opening of gathering a caller country."

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President Trump said he's the lone 1 successful his medication who has suggested that Iran bombed a girls' schoolhouse "because I conscionable don't cognize capable astir it."  

A preliminary U.S. appraisal suggests that the U.S. was "likely" liable for the deadly attack but did not intentionally people the schoolhouse and whitethorn person deed it successful error, a idiosyncratic briefed connected the preliminary quality told CBS News.

"It's thing that I was told is nether investigation," Mr. Trump said. "But Tomahawks are utilized by others. … Numerous different nations person Tomahawks. They bargain them from us." 

Mr. Trump said helium would judge "whatever" the probe shows. 

"I'm consenting to unrecorded with that report," helium said. 

Without providing evidence, the president had said Saturday that the U.S. believes the bombing "was done by Iran" and cited accusation helium had seen.

President Trump warned Iran against blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a important chokepoint for the world's lipid industry, arsenic the warfare with Iran has brought shipping postulation successful the strait to a virtual standstill — causing lipid prices to spike since the warfare began.

"If Iran does thing that stops the travel of Oil wrong the Strait of Hormuz, they volition beryllium deed by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they person been deed frankincense far," helium said connected his Truth Social platform. "Additionally, we volition instrumentality retired easy destroyable targets that volition marque it virtually intolerable for Iran to ever beryllium built back, arsenic a Nation, again — Death, Fire, and Fury volition reign upon them — But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen!"

Mr. Trump has repeatedly threatened to ramp up strikes connected Iran if it disrupts the Strait of Hormuz, which lies betwixt Iran and the Arabian Peninsula and carries astir 20% of the world's oil. Earlier Monday, helium told CBS News helium was considering taking implicit the waterway.

Vice President JD Vance participated successful a dignified transportation for Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, the seventh American work subordinate who was killed successful the U.S.-Iran conflict.

Vance flew to Dover Air Force Base successful Delaware for the accomplishment of Pennington's remains. The vice president was seen saluting during the ceremony, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.

A Kentucky native, 26-year-old Pennington was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion successful Colorado. He was injured during a March 1 onslaught connected a basal successful Saudi Arabia and died from his injuries a week later, according to the Pentagon.

A dignified transportation for six different U.S. work members who were killed took spot past weekend, with President Trump successful attendance.