NOTE: Consortium News announces that * at 8 tonight EST * Scott Ritter “joins The World This Week to discuss the U.S. and Israel’s war of aggression to overthrow the Iranian government with no credible rationale or legal authority, unleashing a conflagration that could alter history.” He will talk with CN editor-in chief Joe Lauria and perhaps others. Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, author, and commentator. Click HERE shortly before that time for the program.
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For now, links to FORTEEN-plus reports: from the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Common Dreams, Middle East Eye, the Cradle, and Agence France-Presse, and to an article of commentary from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. NOTE: The NPR link links to eleven other reports from the service. L’Orient Today / L’Orient-Le Jour is another source of ongoing coverage in English and French. Le Devoir and Le Journal de Montréal carry mostly ongoing coverage from AFP. (Scroll down for IRAN 2-27-26.) — MCM
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NEWER Ali Khamenei assassinated in Iran, Israeli officials told. From the Jerusalem Post. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli strike on Tehran, with his body found under the rubble caused by an Israeli airstrike, senior Israeli officials were informed on Saturday evening. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for report from Haaretz and Al Jazeera.
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Iran launches heavy retaliation after Israel, U.S. attack. From the Jerusalem Post. Sirens sounded across central Israel on Saturday during an Iranian missile attack on the country, launched in response to the joint Israeli, US preemptive strike earlier that morning. READ MORE . . .
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U.S. and Israel launch a major attack on Iran and Trump urges Iranians to ‘take over your government,’ by Jon Gambrell, Konstantin Toropin, Josh Boak and Aamer Madhani | AP DUBAI — The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran today, and President Donald Trump called on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” by rising up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979. Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones toward Israel and U.S. military bases in the region. Click HERE for report including photos and video, and HERE for text of same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others. Click HERE for the first of twelve reports from NPR related to the war — links to several other reports are at NPR.
NOTE: AP’s “live updates” are HERE.
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Iran demands emergency United Nations action amid ‘criminal aggression’ by Iran, Israel, by Jake Johnson | Common Dreams / ScheerPost As U.S. and Israeli bombs fell on Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday vowed that the country would defend itself against “criminal aggression” and implored the United Nations Security Council to take emergency action. READ MORE . . .
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At least 85 killed, mostly girls, in strike on elementary school: Iranian judiciary. From Middle East Eye. TEHRAN — At least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.
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What to know about the strikes, by Brian Melley | AP The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran today in what President Donald Trump said was a massive operation to destroy the country’s military capabilities and eliminate the threat of it creating a nuclear weapon. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it would defend its homeland and its Revolutionary Guard said it launched counterattacks, firing . . . READ MORE . . .
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‘I just hope for a miracle,‘ by correspondent in Tehran and Alex MacDonald | Middle East Eye TEHRAN / LONDON — As attacks rained down on Tehran and cities across the country, Iran’s National Security Council urged the public to leave the capital and other major targets. Roads have been choked with vehicles trying to make their way out of Tehran, a city of 9.5 million people. READ MORE . . .
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FROM FEB. 27 Dozens of U.S. support aircraft spotted at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base amid Iran war preparations. From the Cradle. Satellite imagery shows an increase in U.S. military support aircraft, including refueling tankers and surveillance planes, at a Saudi airbase, Reuters reported on Friday, amid Washington’s threats to launch a new war on Iran. READ MORE . . .
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Israel engaged in ‘decisive, unprecedented’ operation in Iran: army chief. From AFP.
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Israel says intercepted multiple ‘hostile aircraft’ from Iran. From AFP.
HEADLINE ONLY. Click HERE for AFP report in French, and HERE for headlines of others.
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Trump-Netanyahu war aims to entrap Iranians into unconditional submission, by Hamid Dabashi | Middle East Eye Today, as President Donald Trump announced that the United States had launched a major attack on Iran, the Israeli military declared that the joint US-Israeli attack had targeted “dozens of military targets” in Iran. READ MORE . . .
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TO BE CONTINUED