The Israeli regime has claimed that it intercepted all of around 35 drones Iran fired earlier today in retaliation for this morning’s unprovoked US/Israel air and cyber attacks. Israeli station KAN, however, reported a strike in northern Israel, while so far unconfirmed reports suggest damage in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.

However, Israel responded to June 2025’s highly successful Iranian missile attacks by banning media from reporting on massive damage inflicted by Iran’s bombardment, so Israel’s claims should be treated sceptically. Even more so given its ability today to hit heavily-defended US air and naval bases.

Indian news media do appear to be reporting major hits on Israeli cities. However, some appear to be re-using 2025 footage mixed with new — perhaps because of news restrictions in Israel. NDTV’s live feed appears to be among the more measured:

Some latest social media reports claim widespread impacts, but so far most of these are unverified. A member of Global Fact-Checking Network — a Russia-based network unsurprisingly attacked by western media — has published footage he says is on Israel’s attempted defence and successful strikes:

A series of Iranian missile attacks hit Israel, with big explosions in Tel Aviv and sirens plus blasts in Haifa. These strikes came after the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites, and Iran responded by firing missiles at multiple Israeli cities. There are injuries and damage in both… pic.twitter.com/ZA0lGxOHhX

— Alexander Joseph S Babao🇵🇭 (@Josef_Alexandr) February 28, 2026

Overwhelming Israel’s air defences

It also appears that Iran’s focus today has been on hitting US air and radar facilities in the region, while doing little more than making Israel deplete its air defence resources. So far, reports indicate Iran has only used its cheap ‘Shahed‘ drones and other basic munitions against Israel, and only a few dozen. In the June 2025 12-day war, its tactics were to flood Israel’s defences with such weapons, then use its hypersonic missiles to inflict major damage. That is likely to escalate tonight.

Given the upgrades provided by China and Russia to Iran’s surveillance and targeting systems, there is no reason to expect such tactics to be anything but even more effective in 2026.

However, western readers should not expect to see proper reporting in the ‘mainstream’ media. Western authorities also appear to be moving to block access to Iranian and other media sites that are likely to report more frankly, in an attempt to keep western populations in the dark.

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Zionist terrorists have already committed two brutal massacres of children in Iran, only hours into their colonial assault on the country. An “Israeli strike” slaughtered 85 people in a horrifying attack on an “elementary girls’ school in Minab“. Zionists murdered a further two students at a school in Tehran.

Speaking on Al Jazeera, Professor of North American Studies at Tehran University Foad Izadi said:

[Iranians] understand they are fighting the Epstein class that either rape little girls or bomb little girls.

He elaborated on how the brutality of the US/Zionist assault will show younger Iranians the reality of American lawlessness:

I think what will happen is that, even if the United States is able to kill illegally Iranian leaders, the next generation of Iranians, the Iranians that did not see American atrocities in Iran before 1979…that did not understand why their parents and grandparents were anti-American, those Iranians will take over.

Now they understand why American government is an imperialist, vicious government, and a government that attacks other countries and kills little children.

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Trump the alleged child abuser now bombing more kids in Iran

There is undoubted overlap between those who feature prominently in the Epstein files and those now committing atrocities in Iran. US war-criminal-in-chief Donald Trump is accused of:

…orally raping a girl of 13–14 years old — then beating her after she bit him during the ordeal.

Trump’s abuse of children may go far beyond that. As reported recently by The Canary:

Dozens of FBI files that mention US President Donald Trump are missing from the vast Epstein releases.

The files also suggest that the thug squatting in the White House is “compromised by Israel“. This may partly explain his willingness to go along with fellow war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s desire to try and force regime change in Iran. Or it may simply be the case that Mafia Don wants to behave in the mode typical of US gangsterism, and punish Iran for disobedience.

The Zionist entity is a convenient tool for US empire, essentially operating as the main war crimes division of the US army. This allows US imperial aims to be facilitated with a brutality that might raise excessive opposition at home, but can be passed off as the West Asian settler-colony going rogue.

Other prominent Zionists featured heavily in the files include the Clintons, Alan Dershowitz, Elon Musk and former ‘Israeli’ prime minister Ehud Barak. It is likely Barak is the individual responsible for allegedly raping Virginia Giuffre “more savagely than anyone had before”.

Zionism, racism and cruelty to children are synonymous

Epstein himself was, of course, an ardent Zionist. He was pictured wearing an Israeli Genocide Forces sweatshirt, gave money to the genocidaires and was likely a Mossad agent, or at least an asset. The paedophile was, like Barak, a vile racist who believed Black people are less intelligent, and who wanted to carry out “Nazi-like” eugenicist programs to spread his own DNA, based on the deranged idea it was superior. He was a serial child rapist who groomed young girls, then allowed other powerful and sadistic Zionists to rape them.

The Zionist land theft project is a hub of child abuse. Israeli Occupation Forces routinely abduct, then molest, Palestinian children. The terror regime gives sanctuary to paedophiles, aided by senior government officials.

Epstein was able to operate with impunity. He had disdain for Black and Brown people, and his main pastime was destroying children’s lives. It is this same combination — impunity, racism and serial abuse of children — that the Zionist entity embraces when it carries out its atrocities in Palestine, and now Iran.

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Foreign affairs committee chair Emily Thornberry has celebrated the lack of UK involvement in US strikes on Iran. But there’s a couple of issues, not just with this claim, but the entire track record of the person making it…

Speaking about the latest developments in Iran, the one-time Corbyn backer posted on X:

I am pleased to see the UK is not involved in these strikes on Iran. They are ill-advised and illegal.
We will be hit by the consequences though & need to prepare for chaos in the region, with shipping lanes, oil facilities & military bases (including our own) being attacked.

— Emily Thornberry (@EmilyThornberry) February 28, 2026

Strikes on Iran are “ill-advised”

She’s not entirely wrong. The strikes are illegal and ill-advised. Their consequences are likely to be severe not just for the wider region, but also for the global economy.

But still, there are a couple of thorny issues we must first address.

Thornberry has herself previously defended Israel’s genocidal misconduct in Gaza. In 2024, when asked on BBC if Israel cutting off food and electricity in Gaza was “within international law”:

Thornberry, with a straight-face, said:

I think Israel has an absolute right to defend itself against terrorism…

You can listen to her remarks for yourself:

Instead of her engaging in self-pity, I’d like to ask my local MP @EmilyThornberry about:

a) Her failure to condemn Israel’s stated intent to commit war crimes from the start

b) Why she didn’t realise this would inevitably mean lots of dead babiespic.twitter.com/9NYs3hdPl8 https://t.co/6Zxm2C3fhw

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) March 19, 2024

It’s great news that Thornberry has the foresight to recognise the illegal war on Iran for what it is… only, it’s a little late to merit an applause and hardly serves as penance for her past support of Israel.

The UK is involved

Another glaring issue with Thornberry’s comments is that the UK is involved in the attack on Iran. On 28 February, when UK PM Keir Starmer FINALLY got round to making a public statement, he admitted that:

British planes “are in the sky today” in the Middle East “as part of co-ordinated regional defensive operations to protect our people, our interests and our allies”.

Oh, and there’s more…

On 24 February the Royal Navy massively contradicted itself. It refused to confirm the presence of UK sailors aboard a US warship involved in the attack – despite saying on its own website this was the case.

As the Canary wrote:

Either UK personnel are aboard the US warships being positioned to threaten – and possibly attack – Iran or they are not. Self-evidently, there is a public interest in knowing it this is the case. And Carns’ claim that the MoD does not comment on “specific roles, locations, or units in which UK personnel may be embedded” is clearly inaccurate.

We also noted that:

Carn’s own boss, John Healy, and the Navy’s own website have both publicly commented on the presence of British personnel on US warships.

The MOD is contradicting itself again.

Then add to that the UK’s longstanding agreement with Israel to attack and undermine Iran. As Declassified UK reported in 2024:

According to leaked documents, the British project was codenamed HEZUK and designed to counter the “destabilising regional activity of Iran and Hizballah”.

This would be done by strengthening UK-Israel intelligence collaboration and increasing military cooperation, with the effect of deepening bilateral security integration.

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Keir Starmer is a willing lackey to US power. But he doesn’t even have the moral courage to say so out loud – nor Thornberry for that matter.

It’s true that UK military forces may not be bombing targets inside Iran. True. But our sailors and airmen are supporting and propping up US interests as we speak. Britain needs leadership that will divest fully from American empire. And that is never going to come from the likes of Starmer.

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