BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 29. Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are scheduled to hold talks in Islamabad aimed at ending the US-Israel war on Iran, which has entered its 30th day TurkicWorld reports via aljazeera.
The diplomatic efforts come as the conflict has escalated across the Middle East, with Yemen’s Houthis joining the war by firing missiles at Israel on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Tehran has threatened retaliatory attacks on Israeli and US universities in the region after the United States and Israel bombed Iranian universities.
As tensions continue to escalate and the global energy crisis worsens, here’s what we know on day 30 of the war:
In Iran
US-Israeli strikes: Powerful explosions rocked Tehran on Sunday morning. Two people were killed and five wounded in the attack on a residential area in a village near Shaft city, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported. The Iranian Fars news agency reported that US-Israeli attacks also hit the Saadat Abad neighbourhood of northern Tehran and another residential area in the west of the capital. It said three people were wounded in Saadat Abad and nine in western Tehran.
Attack on civilian infrastructure: There were attacks on Saturday that killed a family of four in Bushehr province and hit a water facility in Khuzestan province.
Attack on Kurdish region leader: Iran accused the US and Israel of attacking the residence of the president of the Iraqi Kurdish region and said it follows the pattern of “cowardly assassinations” of senior Iranian officials by the two countries.
Press TV lists IRGC targets: The broadcaster reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps “used long-range and medium-range solid and liquid-fuelled systems and attack drones to target several industries belonging to the Israeli-American enemy” in Israel and other locations on Saturday. It claimed that the IRGC shot down a US MQ9 drone and hit an F-16 jet.
Iranian attacks: The Iranian army said it targeted an electronic warfare and radar centre, operated by Israeli defence technology company Elta, at the military aerospace complex in the port city of Haifa, as well as a fuel storage centre at Ben Gurion airport on Saturday.
Iran’s power underestimated: Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, reporting from Tehran, said one month into the war, Iran has proved that its power was underestimated by the enemy, who thought that the war would be a short excursion and that the country would capitulate after just a few days of bombardment and the decapitation of the head of the system.
Nuclear exit treaty: Al Jazeera’s Maziar Motamedi, reporting from Tehran, said Iranian politicians are pushing for the country’s exit from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as the US and Israel ramp up their attacks on civilian nuclear sites, factories and universities.
