US-Israel strikes kill Iran’s Khamenei, chaos continues across Middle East: Live Updates (VIDEOS)

US President Donald Trump says he has agreed to resume negotiations with Iran.

“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” he told The Atlantic. “They should have done it sooner.”

The Israeli and US attack on Iran after the third round of Omani-mediated talks in Geneva, in which Trump pressured Tehran to abandon its missile and nuclear programs.

“A deal was at our reach… We were able to address serious questions related to Iran’s nuclear program,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with NBC News on Saturday, adding that he is not sure why “they decided to attack us.”

The IDF has announced that it has mobilized an extra 100,000 reservists amid the conflict with Iran.

Ground troops have been reinforced on the borders with Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and along the line of contact in Gaza, the Israeli military said in a press release.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the IDF will intensify its strikes on Iran.

“Our forces are now striking the heart of Tehran with increasing intensity, and this will only intensify further over the coming days,” he said in a statement.

Two Iranian drones struck the United Arab Emirates’ Al Salam naval base in Abu Dhabi, the Defense Ministry has announced.

“Specialized teams today responded to an incident resulting from the targeting of a warehouse… by two Iranian drones, leading to a fire in two containers storing general materials,” it said in a statement, adding that there were no casualties.

“The UAE reserves its full right to respond to this escalation.”

US Central Command has denied that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was struck.

“The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close,” it said.

Iran’s missile strike on Beit Shemesh was “most likely a direct impact” on a bomb shelter, Jerusalem District police chief Avshalom Peled has told Israeli media.

“Most, if not all, of those killed were in there,” he said.

The death toll from the strike has risen to nine, Israel’s medical emergency and disaster service Magen David Adom has announced. At least 28 people wounded in the attack have been hospitalized, two of them with serious injuries, it said.

Israeli emergency and rescue personnel recover a dead body from a missile strike site, Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1, 2026. © Getty Images / Amir Levy

Israeli emergency and rescue personnel at the site of an Iranian missile strike, Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1, 2026. © Getty Images / Amir Levy

The Israeli Air Force has launched another wave of airstrikes on Tehran, the IDF has announced.

“Interception efforts continue at all times,” it said in a brief statement.

Iran currently has no plans to close off the Hormuz Strait, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told Al Jazeera.

Commenting on Iran’s retaliatory strikes in the region, he stressed that Tehran is not attacking Gulf states, but US bases on their territories.

“Our neighbors cannot expect us to watch attacks against us originate from their countries and remain silent,” he said.

Washington and West Jerusalem have allowed their ideology overshadow their common sense and rationality, Finn Andreen, an economic and political contributor at the Mises Institute, has told RT, adding that the strikes on Iran would disrupt the global oil trade and eventually hit Western economies.

The situation could become “particularly difficult” for the US' Western allies, he said, adding that “this must not come as a surprise for the aggressors, namely the United States and Israel.”

At least three American soldiers have so far been killed in action and five seriously wounded in the military operation against Iran, US Central Command has announced.

“Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions – and are in the process of being returned to duty,” it added. “Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing.”