{"id":48919,"date":"2026-03-06T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=48919"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:14","slug":"israel-bombs-tehran-and-beirut-as-trump-says-no-deal-with-iran-except-unconditional-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2026\/03\/06\/israel-bombs-tehran-and-beirut-as-trump-says-no-deal-with-iran-except-unconditional-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel bombs Tehran and Beirut as Trump says no deal with Iran \u2018except unconditional surrender\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Nawaf Salam, said his country was drawn into a war \u201cit did not seek or choose\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong>In a speech during a meeting with Arab and foreign ambassadors, he warned that\u00a0<strong>\u201ca humanitarian disaster is looming\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Donald Trump posted on social media that<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>there would be no deal with Iran except \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong>The US president said following \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d, there would be \u201cthe selection of a GREAT &amp; ACCEPTABLE Leader(s)\u201d \u2013 earlier, Trump had said he must \u201cbe involved in the appointment\u201d of Iran\u2019s next leader as he was in\u00a0<strong>Venezuela<\/strong>, and dismissed the idea of the assassinated ayatollah\u2019s son,\u00a0<strong>Mojtaba Khamenei<\/strong>, succeeding his father as supreme leader as \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>US investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls\u2019 school<\/strong>\u00a0that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion, according to a Reuters report citing two unnamed US officials.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Iranian forces fired seven attack drones at residential neighbourhoods in Bahrain overnight<\/strong>, said US Central Command (Centcom), which accused the Iranian government of attacking 12 different countries and \u201cdeliberately\u201d targeting civilians.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Israeli military announced a \u201cnew stage\u201d in its campaign against Iran, with US and Israeli officials hinting at escalating strikes.\u00a0<\/strong>The IDF said it has \u201cadditional surprising moves\u201d as part of this new phase, without elaborating, while US defence secretary Pete Hegseth announced that strikes on Iran will\u00a0<strong>\u201csurge dramatically\u201d<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The IDF claimed to have destroyed<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the underground bunker of the slain Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which it claims is still used by senior Iranian officials.\u00a0<\/strong>The Israeli military said approximately 50 fighter jets dropped about 100 bombs at the site in Tehran, which it claimed spread across multiple streets and included \u201cmany entry points\u201d. There was no immediate comment from Iran.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The UN said nearly 100,000 people have been displaced within\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lebanon\">Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0and tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in the country have fled back over the border.\u00a0<\/strong>It follows a mass evacuation order by the IDF for people to flee a vast swathe of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs as it bombs what it says are Hezbollah targets in the area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, raised concerns that<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the Israeli military causing the mass displacement of people in Lebanon<\/strong>\u00a0may be violating international law, the AFP reports. \u201cLebanon is becoming a key flashpoint,\u201d Turk said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Officials in Azerbaijan said they are withdrawing diplomatic staff from Iran for their own safety.<\/strong>\u00a0It comes a day after Azerbaijan said four Iranian drones had crossed its border and injured four people in the Nakhchivan exclave.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Four people in the UK have been arrested by counter terror police on suspicion of spying on the Jewish community for Iran, the Metropolitan police said.\u00a0<\/strong>The men, one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals, were arrested this morning shortly after 1am in Barnet and Watford.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11261,11746,5569,6975,10410,5304,12793,7681,11250,9204,5268,6056,10387,287,6848,12246,5846,7445,9478,9203,2264,10754,10840,12957,11111,10954,1759,3095,9463,9515,10342,9667,9833,12309,4317,5572,12976,12083,421,3805,3174,1511,5524,5462,6736,5349,10041,11279,5818,12794,5377,7444,11089,12605,5465,9262,184,6348,11331,5510,5251,1312],"class_list":["post-48919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-appointment","tag-arab","tag-arrest","tag-assassinated","tag-attack","tag-ayatollah","tag-barnet","tag-bombs","tag-border","tag-british","tag-bunker","tag-campaign","tag-children","tag-civilians","tag-diplomatic","tag-displaced","tag-drones","tag-dropped","tag-evacuation","tag-government","tag-hezbollah","tag-human-rights","tag-idf","tag-injured","tag-international","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jets","tag-killed","tag-law","tag-lebanon","tag-meeting","tag-men","tag-metropolitan","tag-military","tag-nawaf-salam","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-police","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-prime-minister-israeli-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-refugees","tag-residential","tag-school","tag-social-media","tag-speech","tag-spying","tag-strike","tag-supreme-leader","tag-surrender","tag-tehran","tag-terror","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-venezuela","tag-war","tag-watford"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48921,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48919\/revisions\/48921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}