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Countries successful the Middle East and astir the satellite were watching with bated enactment aft the United States and Israel carried retired long-feared strikes connected Iran connected Saturday (February 28, 2026).
Read the latest updates connected the U.S., Israel’s onslaught connected Iran
Trump: ‘annihilate’
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed that the strikes would cripple Iran’s subject and urged Iranians to emergence up against the Islamic republic.
“We are going to destruct their missiles and raze their rocket manufacture to the ground. It volition beryllium wholly – again – obliterated. We’re going – to annihilate their navy,” Mr. Trump said successful the code from his Florida location posted to his Truth Social platform.
Calling connected Iranians to basal up to their government, Mr. Trump added, “The hr of your state is astatine hand.”
But helium besides warned that “the lives of courageous American heroes whitethorn beryllium mislaid and we whitethorn person casualties”.
Netanyahu: ‘cast disconnected the yoke’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cognition aimed to “remove the existential menace posed by the violent authorities successful Iran”, and urged Iranians to overthrow the Islamic republic’s clerical leadership.
“Our associated enactment volition make the conditions for the brave Iranian radical to instrumentality their destiny into their ain hands,” Netanyahu added. “The clip has travel for each the radical of Iran... to formed disconnected the yoke of tyranny and bring astir a escaped and peace-seeking Iran.”
Russia: Talks a ‘cover’
Russia called connected its citizens to permission Iran, with erstwhile president Dmitry Medvedev saying that talks with the United States had conscionable been a “cover”.
“The peacekeeper is astatine it again,” Medvedev, present the seat of Russia’s information council, said successful a station connected X.
“The talks with Iran were conscionable a cover. Everyone knew that. So who has much patience to hold for the enemy’s atrocious extremity now?” helium added.
Qatar: ‘secure’
Qatar, which hosts a U.S. subject base, initially said it was unafraid aft the U.S. and Israeli attacks connected neighbouring Iran but was monitoring developments closely.
“The concern wrong the State of Qatar is unchangeable and secure,” an interior ministry connection said.
An authoritative aboriginal told AFP that Qatari defence systems had intercepted an Iranian missile, and the defence ministry said it had repelled “a fig of attacks.”
Shah’s son: ‘final victory’ near
Reza Pahlavi, the lad of Iran’s past shah and a starring professional of Tehran, said that “we are precise adjacent to last victory” pursuing the strikes.
“I privation to beryllium by your broadside arsenic soon arsenic imaginable truthful that unneurotic we tin instrumentality backmost and rebuild Iran,” said Mr. Pahlavi, who lives successful exile successful the Washington country and had repeatedly urged Mr. Trump to intervene.
Jordan: support skies
Jordan’s subject said its aerial unit was astatine enactment connected Saturday (February 28) to support the kingdom and its radical portion the strikes were ongoing.
“These sorties are portion of aerial reconnaissance and inspection operations aimed astatine maintaining the information of Jordanian airspace and ensuring that it is escaped from immoderate attempts astatine infiltration oregon amerciable activities,” a subject root said, aft sirens were reported successful Amman.
France: information a priority
France, which has respective subject bases successful the Middle East, notably successful Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, said that Paris’s precedence was the information of its citizens.
“Obviously our precedence successful these benignant of cases is the extortion of our nationals, the extortion of our forces successful the portion and the monitoring of the concern successful existent time, which we are doing,” Alice Rufo, minister-delegate to the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Affairs Ministry, told France 2 television.
African Union: stableness astatine risk
The African Union called “for restraint, urgent de-escalation and sustained dialogue” aft the strikes, informing that struggle could hazard harming radical connected the continent.
“Further escalation risks worsening planetary instability, with superior implications for vigor markets, nutrient security, and economical resilience – peculiarly successful Africa, wherever struggle and economical pressures stay acute,” said the pan-African body’s head, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf.
Poland ‘prepared’
Polish unit astatine its embassy successful Tehran were “safe” but the state is “prepared for assorted scenarios,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote connected X.
Netherlands: ‘restraint’
In a station connected X, Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen said, “The Netherlands calls connected each parties to workout restraint and forestall further escalation. Stability successful the portion is essential.”
