Trump calls Strait of Hormuz 'something that we don't need'

Trump told reporters that he is talking to countries about policing the Strait.

ByKevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, Jon Haworth, and Nadine El-Bawab
Last Updated: March 15, 2026, 9:09 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.

Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes. His son Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen on Sunday to succeed him.

Iran is responding to the operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

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Mar 10, 2026, 7:16 AM EDT

Iran's internet shutdown among 'most severe' ever recorded, NetBlocks says

Iran's near-total internet shutdown passed 240 hours on Tuesday, NetBlocks said in a social media post Tuesday morning

The shutdown "is now among the most severe government-imposed nationwide internet shutdowns on record globally, and the second longest registered in Iran after the January protests, with the country having spent a third of 2026 offline," the online monitoring and advocacy group said.

-ABC News’ Morgan Winsor

Mar 10, 2026, 7:09 AM EDT

IDF says it carried out wave of strikes on Tehran overnight

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Tuesday that it had carried out another wave of strikes against the Iranian regime in Tehran overnight, with targets including a weapons research and development complex used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Smoke plumes billow from the site of airstrikes near Azadi Tower in western Tehran on March 10, 2026.
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-ABC News' Morgan Winsor

Mar 10, 2026, 6:41 AM EDT

Hegseth, Caine to address reporters on Iran

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are scheduled to hold a press conference at 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday, according to the Department of Defense.

Mar 10, 2026, 6:25 AM EDT

Nearly 40 killed in strike on buildings in eastern Tehran, local authorities say

Nearly 40 people were killed in a strike on two buildings in eastern Tehran, according to local authorities, as the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported Monday evening.

Two buildings, each containing 20 residential flats, were destroyed by missiles, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported, quoting the head of the Tehran Fire Department.

“Tens of martyrs have been taken out. Many bodies are still under the rubble, and one body recovered from the building cannot be identified as a woman or a man because it is totally disintegrated,” the head of the Tehran Fire Department said, according to Mehr.

-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian

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