France 24 · Feb 28, 2026 · Collected from RSS
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At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported strike.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Washington had begun "major combat operations" in Iran after Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on the Islamic Republic Saturday. In retaliation, Iran attacked Israel as well as several US military bases across the region, notably in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Reza Sayah is live from Tehran.
As the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran early on Saturday, FRANCE 24 spoke to Middle East expert Hussein Ibish about the risk of Iranian allies – notably Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – launching their own retaliatory attacks against US forces, igniting a wider regional war.