Following US and Israeli attacks, Iran launched retaliatory strikes, leading to attacks on Oman's Duqm port, protests at the US Consulate in Karachi resulting in casualties, and drone incidents in Kuwait and Dubai. US government personnel movement restricted in Karachi due to escalating regional tensions.
US President Donald Trump called for regime change following the massive American and Israeli attack, which prompted unprecedented waves of retaliatory strikes by Iran.Oman’s Duqm commercial port was targeted by two drones, injuring one worker, the country’s state news agency reported Sunday morning.
“One of them struck a mobile workers’ accommodation unit, injuring an expatriate worker, while debris from the other fell in an area near the fuel tanks without causing any human casualties or material damage,” Oman News Agency reported, citing a security source.Six protesters have been killed and 20 others injured after they stormed the heavily fortified US Consulate in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, according to local emergency workers. “Hundreds of people suddenly appeared near the American consulate” and police arrived quickly, said Karachi Police spokesman Rehan Ali. Yelling heard on some videos posted to social media suggests the protest was motivated by the US-Israel attacks on neighboring Iran. Videos geolocated by CNN show dozens of protesters breaking through the security barricades and beating the consulate’s windows with sticks, before flames can be seen in the windows. Shots can be heard in at least one video.It is unclear how the six protesters died but images emerged of bloodiedThe movement of US government personnel had already been restricted in Karachi, with the consulate releasing a statement Saturday citing the “current regional tensions.”Video geolocated by CNN appears to show a Shahed drone crashing into the ground in Bnaider, on the Kuwaiti coastline. In the video, the fiery silhouette of the drone can be seen falling out of the sky trailed by a thick black smoke trail.Two people were injured in Dubai after debris from drones intercepted by air defenses fell into the courtyards of two homes, authorities said. Officials also confirmed that the explosions heard across the emirate Sunday were the result of “successful interception operations.” CNN reporters in Dubai have been hearing a series of blasts throughout the day, starting around 8 a.m. local time.No US warships would be allowed to enter the Persian Gulf Moshen Rezaei, a former top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and senior Iranian official, said Sunday.The US Navy amassed what President Donald Trump has called an “armada” of ships in the region before Saturday’s attack on Iran. In the days leading up to the strikes, at least a few of those US ships were in the Gulf while others were in the Arabian Sea. The exact location of US ships in the region was unknown on Sunday. Video released by US Central Command since the strikes began showed US warships launching Tomahawk missiles as part of the strikes on Iran as well as fighter jets taking off from an aircraft carrier.Protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, where the US embassy is located, in response to the killing of Iran’s supreme leader. Video obtained by CNN shows protesters and Iraqi security forces clashing Sunday morning on the 14th of July Bridge, which crosses the Tigris River into the Green Zone.Baghdad’s Green Zone houses Iraqi government offices and several embassies, including the US. Security forces attempt to disperse a protest against US and Israeli attacks on Iran, at a bridge leading to the fortified Green Zone where the US embassy is located in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday.Elsewhere in Iraq, large crowds marched in the southern provinces of Dhi Qar and Basra, condemning Khamenei’s killing. Videos obtained by CNN show crowds marching through the streets, chanting and waving flags. The Iraqi government has declared three days of mourning and sent condolences to Iran following Khamenei’s death. Government spokesperson Bassem Al-Awadi said the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran was a “blatant act of aggression and a condemnable deed that violates all humanitarian and moral norms.”CNN’s Matt Egan explains how conflict in the Middle East could disrupt global oil markets, particularly through the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil flows daily.CNN's Matt Egan explains how a war in the Middle East could disrupt global oil markets, particularly through the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil flows daily. A shutdown or attacks on key oil facilities, especially in Saudi Arabia, could cause oil prices to surge, driving up gasoline costs and adding pressure to economies already facing high living expenses.The US State Department is warning Americans to reconsider travel to Bahrain and has allowed non-emergency US government personnel and their family members to depart the country “due to safety risks.” The increase in the travel advisory level, issued Saturday, comes after the US and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, with Tehran retaliating with military strikes across the region. “Following the onset of hostilities between the United States and Iran on February 28, there has been an ongoing threat of drone and missile attacks from Iran and significant disruptions to commercial flights,” the updated travel advisoryThe authorized departure is the first since the start of the military action. On Friday, the State Department authorized non-emergency personnel to leave Israel and last Monday it ordered non-emergency personnel to depart from Lebanon.Iran’s defense minister and the chief of staff for its armed forces were both killed in the US and Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday, Iranian state media has confirmed., who has led the armed force since his predecesor was killed during the 12-day conflict last June, died in Saturday’s strikes, the semi-official Tasnim news agency confirmed.Qatar’s Civil Defence has been dispatched to deal with a minor fire on the outskirts of the capital Doha, the country’s Ministry of Interior said on X. The fire in the city’s Industrial Area was caused by “falling shrapnel” after a missile interception, authorities said. No injuries were reported.Iran has started trading fire after the US and Israel launched strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports on what big questions remain in the Middle East.Motorists drive past a plume of smoke rising from a reported Iranian strike in the industrial district of Doha on Sunday.Despite deep cuts inflicted by the United States and Israel on the Iranian regime, Tehran continues to launch waves of attacks across the region.The death of Iran’s supreme leader in US and Israeli airstrikes is a clear victory for the two allies, but much uncertainty lies ahead. While the US and Israel claim highly successful strikes at a range of Iranian targets, including eliminating other key leaders, analysts note only a few independent satellite images of damage in Iran have been seen so far, including those that show the destruction of the supreme leader’s compound and others that show a cloud of black smoke rising over a docked Iranian warship. Some suggest it will take at least 48 hours to get solid information – and more satellite photo evidence – on how successful the first day of US-Israeli strikes were. The lack of independent evidence of the destruction of Iran’s missile forces leaves open to question how much firepower Tehran still has in its arsenal. While it has struck back against a range of targets across the Middle East since the conflict began – hundreds of ballistic missiles and more than a thousand drones by some accounts – analysts note that in last summer’s 12-day war with Israel, Iran held off using much of its inventory of missiles and drones until later in the conflict.: There was a hint of this early Sunday as Iran said it was launching a fresh wave attacks across the region, with Dubai,Video of Iranian counterattacks since the combat began shows a large volume of missile interceptors being used in targeted countries like Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.: The US and Israel in particular used huge quantities of their limited and hard-to-replace air defense interceptors in the 12-day war last summer, there are doubts about how long current stocks will last if Iran still has ballistic missiles and drones in reserve for an extended conflict.A yacht sails past a plume of smoke rising from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on Sunday.Iran launched a fresh wave of strikes across the Middle East Sunday morning, with explosions heard by CNN teams in several capitals and major cities. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it launched a “sixth wave” of missile and drone attacks on Israel and US bases in the region, according to Iranian’s semi official Tasnim news agencyA CNN team on the ground in Dubai heard multiple blasts throughout the morning, and smoke in the sky. Debris from an aerial interception over Dubai’s Business Bay caused a fire theLink Copied! Iran could launch terrorist attacks on US soil in retaliation for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing, a CNN intelligence analyst has warned, citing previous thwarted plots by Tehran to assassinate prominent figures in the US, including President Donald Trump. The Iranian regime had tried to target individuals in the US but had always refrained from planning broader attacks, said John Miller, CNN’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.US authorities had foiled Tehran-driven plots to assassinate Iran critic Masih Alinejad, Trump’s former security adviser John Bolton and the US president himself before he was reelected, Miller said. “What we did not see, and this could come into play now, is the kind of plot which would involve attacking a location with the intent of multiple casualties,” he said, adding “desperate times call for desperate measures.” “The analogy is the most dangerous kind of animal in attack mode is a wounded animal and here you have a regime… very little to lose,” he said.Bahrain’s air defenses responded overnight to “hostile Iranian missile attacks” and intercepted at least 45 missiles and nine drones, state media reported Sunday. “Limited debris resulting from the interceptions has been identified falling across a number of areas,” the country’s National Communication Center confirmed, according to the Bahrain News Agency. Bahrain’s interior ministry said three buildings in the cities of Manama and Muharraq had sustained damage “as a result of drone attacks and falling debris from an intercepted missile.” Hours later, smoke could be seen rising from the vicinity of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Manama in video geolocated by CNN. A drone strike on Bahrain International Airport resulted in “minor material losses,” according to a senior Civil Aviation Affairs official. “Specialist teams have been immediately deployed to the affected sites to assess conditions, ensure public safety, and address any resulting impact,” the National Communication Center said, according to Bahrain News Agency.Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the “opening blow” of the military operation against Iran. “The tyrant Khamenei was eliminated in the opening blow of Operation “Roar of the Lion” and with him other senior figures in the Iranian terrorist stronghold,” KatzMultiple Iranian state media outlets had confirmed Khamenei’s death earlier, hours after US and Israeli officials declared he had been killed in their joint strikes targeting his regime.for several days of strikes and “even more if needed,” and in a Saturday Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump wrote that “heavy and pinpoint bombing” will continue “uninterrupted throughout the week.”Reza Pahlavi, son of Iate Iranian Shah Mohamad-Reza Pahlavi, attends a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on February 17, 2025.Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last shah of Iran, called the death of the country’s supreme leader a “balm,” adding that Ayatollah Khamenei was “the bloodthirsty despot of our time.” “With his death, the Islamic Republic has in effect reached its end and will very soon be consigned to the dustbin of history,” Pahlavi wrote in a“This may be the beginning of our great national celebration, but it is not the end of the round,” Pahlavi said, addressing the people of Iran. While Pahlavi has managed to galvanize hundreds and thousands of opposition protesters across the world, critics say he is a divisive figure rather than a unifying one. Support for the deposed monarchy is taboo in Iran – a criminal offense, and a sentiment long frowned upon by a society that staged a popular uprising to overthrow the Shah’s dictatorship.People walk near a mural featuring images of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on a street in Tehran, Iran on Thursday.Undermining this moment of relief for many repressed Iranians is that killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a perilously simple fix to a very complex problem. Khamanei’s rule was marked by mismanagement, and ultimately ended with one of the more brutal episodes of his trademark repression – the violence his regime meted out to keep power., as well as 40 days’ official mourning and huge pro-regime crowds – but also a struggle for what remains of the regime to work out Israeli officials have hinted the strike was expedited to exploit a daylight window of opportunity when senior Iranian leaders met. And US President Donald Trump appears to have reached again for the Venezuela playbook, suggesting he had a successor in mind – as he did after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, anointing deputy leader Delcy Rodriguez as his preferred interlocutor. When asked late Saturday, Trump notably declined to say who he thought would play that role in this case. Soon, though, Tehran will have to announce a succession plan.For 47 years, a theocracy has turned into an autocracy and kleptocracy. A large proportion of the country’s more than 90 million people rely on the regime for their livelihood, and a minority have blood on their hands from helping it repress dissent. The US and Israel seem united in their assessment that removing the top layer of Iran’s regime will leave them in a better place. But history lacks good examples of air campaigns that have easily toppled regimes and led to replacements that the attackers preferred.A sign with a depiction of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is reflected in a shop window in Tehran, Iran, on February 19, 2026.In the final hours of his life, the regime that Iran’s supreme leader spent decades constructing stood largely alone. At its zenith a decade ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran boasted a network of allied Islamist militias in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza, as well as close partnership with the ruthless dictatorship government in Syria. But the joint US and Israeli surprise attack on Saturday revealed how few friends were willing to stand beside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah has yet to join in this weekend’s conflict. Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024 and decimated much of its leadership. Israel’s military continues to bomb suspected Hezbollah targets across Lebanon on an almost daily basis. Several months later, rebels toppled the Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad. For more than a decade, the Iranian military fought in Syria to prop up Assad’s regime throughout a devastating civil war. Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have threatened to attack critical Red Sea shipping routes but have yet to do so. Months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv started to report the appearance of killer Shahed drones, manufactured in Iran, striking Ukrainian cities and towns. Despite substantial evidence of Russian-Iranian military cooperation, the Kremlin was nowhere to be seen throughout the first 24 hours of US-Israeli bombardment of Iran. Throughout its 47-year history, the Islamic Republic of Iran has demonstrated an ability to endure huge pain. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in the eight year Iran-Iraq war throughout the 1980s. In the decades since, Iran’s economy suffered – but endured – beneath multiple layers of US-led economic sanctions. Year after year, the Iranian security forces also demonstrated a ruthless willingness to crush popular uprisings on the streets of Iranian cities. Often using deadly force, with widespread allegations of torture and other mistreatment, Basij militia-men and police deployed to beat protesters into submission in 1999, 2003, 2009, 2022, and whe recent economic protests that began in December 2025. Similar deadly tactics were used against periodic uprisings in ethnic Kurdish regions of the country. While the regime always emerged intact from these periods of unrest, the repeated killing and brutalization of fellow citizens eroded the legitimacy of the Khamenei’s theocracy. Against this backdrop, the Iranian regime made occasional high-profile mistakes that were deeply embarrassing, while also revealing incompetence at the highest levels of government. In 2020, Iranian air defense shot down Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 shortly after take off from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran. All 176 people on board were killed. A court in Tehran later acknowledged it had been a mistake at a time of increased tension with the US. In May 2024, then-president Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash over northwestern Iran. Tehran had to rely on a reconnaissance drone from neighboring Turkey to find Raisi. This mix of brutality and ineptitude led long-time Iran watched Karim Sadjadpour to declare the Islamic Republic a “zombie regime.” Iranian officials are vowing revenge. Tehran has also declared 40 days of mourning after the assassination of its supreme leader. But there have also been scenes of spontaneous celebration in Syria and Iran as well as among the vast Iranian diaspora around the world.One of Iran’s most powerful figures has vowed to “stab” America in the heart, following the attacks that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “The Americans have stabbed the Iranian people in the heart and we will stab them in their heart,” said Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.” He promised further retaliation against the US and Israel, saying the “reaction from our armed forces will be much stronger.”Larijani is a top decision maker in Iran and was a key adviser to Khamenei. He said a temporary leadership structure comprising of the president, the head of the judiciary would soon be in place. Larijani said Iran had assured leaders in the region that it was not after war with them, but would continue to targeted American bases in Middle Eastern countries.
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