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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T17:08:42.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIsrael and Iran exchanged fresh attacks Saturday as their war entered a second week, while Tehran issued an unusual apology to neighboring Gulf states after Iranian strikes hit civilian targets in the region.\n\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to countries affected by Iranian attacks and urged them not to join U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.\n\n“I personally apologize to neighboring countries that were affected by Iran’s actions,” Pezeshkian said.\n\nHe dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for Iran’s unconditional surrender as unrealistic but said Iran’s temporary leadership council had agreed to suspend attacks on nearby states unless attacks on Iran originated from their territory.\n\nTrump rejected the gesture, describing it as a sign of weakness and warning Iran it would be “hit very hard” on Saturday.\n\n### Iran says it targeted US bases\n\nIran’s Revolutionary Guard said its drones struck a U.S. air combat center at Al Dhafra Air Base near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Reuters could not independently verify the claim.\n\nIranian state media also reported strikes targeting U.S. forces stationed in Bahrain.\n\nBlasts were also heard in Doha, according to a Reuters witness.\n\nIran’s judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, said evidence suggested some regional territories were being used to launch attacks against Iran.\n\nHe warned that Iranian forces would continue striking those targets.\n\nThe conflict escalated sharply after Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike early in the war.\n\nGulf states hit by attacks\n\nThe conflict has spilled beyond Iran and Israel, with missile and drone attacks reported across several Gulf countries hosting U.S. military bases.\n\nOfficials in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq reported missile or drone incidents during the past week.\n\nSeveral Gulf governments condemned the attacks on civilian infrastructure, including hotels, ports, and oil facilities.\n\nAn Emirati official said the UAE wanted Iranian strikes against Gulf states to end immediately.\n\n“We don’t want the war to expand,” the official said, urging Iran to stop attacking neighboring countries.\n\n### Israel warns Lebanon\n\nAs the conflict widened, Israel warned Lebanon it would face a “very heavy price” if it failed to restrain the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.\n\nIsraeli airstrikes pounded Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut and eastern Lebanon.\n\nThe Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 294 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday.\n\nIran’s U.N. ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, said Israeli and U.S. attacks had killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands.\n\nIranian strikes have killed 10 people in Israel, while at least six U.S. service members have also died in the conflict.\n\n### Conflict rattles global markets\n\nThe expanding war has disrupted global markets and pushed oil prices to multi-year highs as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed sharply.\n\nAbout one-fifth of the world’s oil supply normally passes through the narrow waterway.\n\nIranian state media reported that Revolutionary Guard forces struck a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the strait.\n\nTrump said the U.S. Navy could escort commercial vessels in the Gulf, a proposal Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they would challenge.\n\nTehran also rejected Trump’s demand that Washington be given influence over the selection of Iran’s next supreme leader.\n\nIravani said the country’s future leadership would be chosen “without any foreign interference.”",
  "title": "Iran apologises to Gulf but war still rages across region"
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