Following the U.S.-Israel strikes, Iran has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to be held on Monday (2 March), and vowed strong retaliation to the attacks. Touraj Shiralilou sent this update from Tehran.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, announced that Tehran had demanded the meeting on Saturday (28 February), hours after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
The Supreme National Security Council also issued an advisory to people in Tehran to leave the capital city, if they have somewhere they can go to.
In the same statement, the Council announced that schools and universities would be closed until further notice, but banks would remain open.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who earlier this week held indirect nuclear talks with the U.S. in Geneva, held phone calls with his international counterparts on the ongoing developments in Iran and urged them to condemn the attacks.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) announced that it had targeted Israeli and U.S. bases in the region including in Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait. They said ballistic missiles and drones had been deployed in retaliation for the attacks on Iran.
Iran’s Red Crescent Society has confirmed that dozens of students were killed and injured at a girl’s school in Minab, in the southern Hormuzgan Province, during the early hours of the attacks.
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