In the past week, the governments of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE all reported what they said were Iranian missile and drone attacks.

Bahrain and Jordan also said they have intercepted missiles fired towards them since the war began on 28 February.

Cyprus, home to two RAF bases, has also faced hostile activity - although British military officials' best assessment is that a drone that hit RAF Akrotiri last Monday was launched in Lebanon by the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah.

And on Thursday, Azerbaijan accused Iran of launching drones that it said injured two people in the western territory of Nakhchivan on Thursday. Tehran denied being involved

A seventh US service member has died in the country's war with Iran, the US Defense Department says.

"Last night, a US service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East," US Central Command (Centcom) confirms in a statement on X.

"The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on US troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1."

The identity of the solider will be withheld until 24 hours after their family is notified, the post adds.

In its latest update, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says the headquarters of the IRGC Air Force - which served as the "main command-and-control" centre to direct Iran's air operations - has been struck.

The IDF adds that the centre played a central role in the planning of missile attacks against Israel and other countries in the region.

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian

While we have been monitoring reports in Iranian media to determine when, or if, the name of Iran’s next Supreme Leader will be announced, members of the Assembly of Experts (who are responsible for electing the successor) have issued conflicting statements.

Some clerics within the Assembly say a candidate has secured majority support and that an announcement is imminent, while others insist that rumours the vote has already concluded are “completely false”.

US President Donald Trump has rejected the prospect of working with Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the Islamic Republic’s former leader Ali Khamenei, while Israel has warned it will target anyone who succeeds or attempts to appoint a successor to Khamenei.

Late Supreme Leader Khamenei, who was killed in the initial US‑Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February, is yet to be buried.

There was supposed to be a funeral ceremony held for him in Tehran, but authorities postponed it due to what they said was “anticipation of unprecedented turnout”.

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

In central Beirut, Lebanese police were conducting investigations today inside the Ramada Hotel, which was hit by an Israeli drone strike overnight.

The Israeli military said the “precise strike" had targeted commanders of Iran’s elite Quds Force while they were meeting at the hotel. It named five men, including three “key" commanders killed in the strike, saying they had been responsible for intelligence gathering and transferring funds to Hezbollah.

The Lebanese health ministry earlier said four people had been killed and 10 injured.

It is the first Israeli strike to hit in the heart of Beirut since hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah resumed last Monday. Another hotel on the outskirts of the capital was targeted earlier in the week.

The streets outside the Ramada - which is located along the coast and is normally popular with business people and tourists but in recent days has been housing some people displaced from their homes - were bustling this afternoon.

People driving past looked out of their windows at the damage from the strike, which hit a corner room at the hotel, leaving the walls blackened and the windows smashed.

On the street outside, I spoke to 43-year-old Mohamed Abbas, who arrived in the Lebanese capital two days ago after being displaced from his home in the south of the country and has been working in a barbershop on the street below the room that was hit.

“This is the centre of Beirut. This is something new,” he said, adding that he believed it showed “Israel doesn’t have a red line”.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a direct message to the Iranian people urging them to stand up against the regime.

In a clip shared on X, accompanied by cinematic music and footage of crowds standing together waving the Lion and Sun flag of Iran and the flag of Israel, Netanyahu says his country aims to "liberate Iran... from the yoke of tyranny".

He adds that it's ultimately up to Iranians to "stand up" to end the regime. "I believe that if you stand up at the moment of truth, the day will not be far off when Israel and Iran return to being brave friends," he continues.

Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, have publicly said they hope the ongoing conflict could lead to regime change in Iran.

Lebanese media says an air raid has struck near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein El Hilweh, in the southern city of Sidon.

The country's National News Agency says one of its correspondents has reported two new strikes hit near the camp earlier this afternoon.

Daily newspaper L'Orient Today says two Israeli missiles landed outside Ein El Hilweh camp's northern entrance at approximately 16:30 local time (14:30 GMT). Citing an emergency respondent, the newspaper says there are "several wounded civilians and Lebanese Army Soldiers".

Independent Al Jadeed TV also cites a correspondent as it says one person is believed to have died and three injured in the air raids.

Ein El Hilweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. As of 2023, there were nearly 65,000 Palestinians living at the camp, according to the UN.

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Lebanon's Minister of Social Affairs Haneen Sayed says the number of displaced people in Lebanon has now exceeded half a million.

Sharing an update on X, she says 517,000 displaced people have been registered so far.

Of these, 117,228 are being held in 538 shelters.

"We call on everyone who has not yet registered - whether in shelters or outside them - to register," she adds.

Israel has been carrying out a heavy bombing campaign in Lebanon, targeting what it calls "Hezbollah terror infrastructure".

Earlier this afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had conducted more than 100 aerial strikes on the country over the past day.

Image source, EPA

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued an update on its operations, one week after launching joint strikes on Iran alongside the United States.

Spokesperson Effie Deffrin says Israeli forces have carried out "approximately 3,400 strikes" and "disabled more than 150 Iranian defence systems".

Deffrin also says Israel has so far dropped 7,500 munitions on Iran.

According to the spokesperson, Israel has now "moved to the next phase of the operation, expanding the attacks on the regime's key production sites".

On Lebanon, Deffrin says the IDF continues to target the Dahieh suburb of Beirut while "hunting down Hezbollah terrorists and destroying the terrorist headquarters they have established" in the area.

Iranian women's national football team goes from not singing anthem to salutingpublished at 17:43 GMT 8 March

17:43 GMT 8 March

Katy Watson
Australia correspondent, reporting from the Gold Coast

Image source, Getty Images

At the Women’s Asian Cup match between the Philippines and Iran on Sunday evening, there were hundreds of Iranian fans who had come to support their team.

Several people I spoke to said they were concerned about the women after they had decided not to join in and sing the national anthem ahead of their first game last week.

For the following two games - last week and tonight - they did sing and salute, adding to concerns they have been forced to do so by the Iranian regime.

There was not much interaction between the Iranian team and their fans during the match. At one point, a player who was receiving medical support on the sidelines turned to blow a kiss to the crowd and there were loud cheers - it felt like quite a statement.

At the end of the match, while the Filipina players lined up to acknowledge their fans, Iran’s team walked off the pitch promptly.

But when they left later in the bus, there were hundreds of Iranian Australians waiting for them, some trying to stop the bus from going forward.

Others had signs pleading with the players to stay in Australia and for Australian police to protect them.

All the while the players watched on in silence from inside the bus, some smiling and cautiously waving, others more solemn.

The BBC's Global News Podcast has released a special episode with the latest on the Iran story.

This follows news that Iranian clerics have reached consensus on who will replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. They have not yet named the successor and say some "obstacles" remain in the appointment.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Questions remain for Trump as he spends weekend in Miamipublished at 17:21 GMT 8 March

17:21 GMT 8 March

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Travelling with the President

Donald Trump is in the Miami suburb of Doral, where he’s spending the weekend.

As things stand, the president has no public events on his schedule, and the travelling White House press corps - including the BBC this weekend - isn’t expecting to see or hear from him directly.

There are still many questions for the president, who spoke to us yesterday on a flight from Delaware after overseeing the return of six US soldiers killed in an Iranian strike early in the war.

One key question is whether he thinks US ground troops will be necessary, possibly to seize Iranian nuclear materials.

It’s also unclear who the Trump administration thinks is running Iran now, or will in the future. Trump said the US should have a role in choosing Iran’s new supreme leader.

But on NBC’s Meet the Press earlier, Iran’s foreign minister said the country’s Assembly of Experts would do so "soon", though he didn’t name a potential leader.

Kris Bramwell
BBC News

"Leila" (not her real name) is in her 50s and lives in Birmingham, England. She's a British Iranian with family in Iran. She says getting in touch with them is difficult.

Her parents-in-law in Tehran manage to reach her "from time to time" with a calling card, but it doesn't always work. She's only managed to speak to them twice in the past eight days.

Yesterday, they told her there were "many attacks" around them.

“They're incredibly scared," Leila says.

Her sister-in-law is in Isfahan with a six-year-old daughter. "Experiencing war at such a young age is, of course, incredibly shocking," Leila says.

Katie Williams
Live reporter

Image source, Reuters

Iran's next supreme leader

A member of Iran's Assembly of Experts - a group of 88 senior clerics - says it has reached consensus on the country's next supreme leader. However, it hasn't yet named Khamenei's replacement, and one cleric reportedly says some "obstacles" still need to be resolved.

Trump weighs in

Donald Trump says Iran's new leader will "have to get approval from us", adding that whoever succeeds Khamenei is "not going to last long" otherwise.

Military action continues

Strikes on Iran and Lebanon have continued, with thick black smoke seen rising over Tehran after oil depots were hit in intense bombardment overnight.

Smoke was also seen above Tel Aviv earlier, after the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it detected missile strikes from Iran.

Elsewhere in southern Lebanon, two IDF soldiers have been killed, the IDF reports.

Gulf states under fire

Gulf states have also continued to be hit with aerial bombardment.

Saudi Arabia's authorities say two people have died after a projectile hit a residential area.

The UAE says it has detected 1,422 drones and 238 ballistic missiles since the start of the war.

Meanwhile, Kuwait has brought two fires under control in the past 24 hours, following drone strikes on a government agency building and the airport.

Saudi Civil Defense says two people have died after a projectile hit a residential area in Riyadh Province. Twelve others were injured.

The two who died - one Indian and one Bangladeshi national - were inside a compound belonging to a maintenance and cleaning company, according to a Civil Defense spokesperson.

New satellite images reveal damage in Iranian port city of Bushehrpublished at 16:35 GMT 8 March

16:35 GMT 8 March

By Emma Pengelly

Satellite images taken on Saturday show damage at a naval base and air base in the southern port city of Bushehr in Iran.

At the Bushehr naval base, a photo shows large holes in the roofs of a row of buildings labelled as "repair shop" on Google Maps.

Image source, Vantor

Another satellite photo taken on Saturday shows a capsized vessel at a jetty about 1.1km (0.7 miles) further south. A dark trail in the water flowing from the vessel suggests there has been some sort of spill.

A further 2km south, satellite images reveal damage at Bushehr air base.

The images show damage to aircraft, aircraft shelters and other buildings at the base. These include an ammunition storage area, according to analysts at satellite imaging company Vantor.

A photo taken on Saturday shows a large crater, measuring around 40m (131ft) wide, likely caused by a secondary explosion in a storage bunker that was struck.

Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry, says the strikes on oil depots "are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air", which are "endangering lives on a massive scale".

Overnight, several oil refineries in Iran were attacked.

One of those targeted was the Shahran oil depot in the north-west of the capital. You can see some of the latest pictures taken after the strike.

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US President Donald Trump is not ruling out sending American troops to Iran to seize the country's enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.

"Everything is on the table. Everything," he tells ABC News.

Trump also says Iran's new supreme leader will "have to get approval from us", adding that whoever succeeds Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is "not going to last long" otherwise.

"We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it," he says, adding he would be open to approving someone with ties to the old regime.

"I would, in order to choose a good leader, I would."

Image source, PA Media

Keir Starmer spoke with Donald Trump this afternoon, according to a Downing Street spokeswoman.

A statement from Number 10 says: "The leaders began by discussing the latest situation in the Middle East and the military co-operation between the UK and US through the use of RAF bases in support of the collective self-defence of partners in the region.

"The Prime Minister also shared his heartfelt condolences with President Trump and the American people following the deaths of six US soldiers."

This follows comments from Trump last night, when he hit out at Starmer, saying "we don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won", after the UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales was placed on advanced readiness.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has launched new "wide-scale strikes" on targets in Tehran and other parts of Iran.

These latest attacks come about an hour after the IDF said it had hit the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Space Force headquarters in Tehran, as well as 50 ammunition bunkers, in earlier strikes today.