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Iran attacks more regional targets
Bangkok Post
|March 16, 2026
Washington embassy in Iraq hit by drone
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Khamenei: New supreme leader
TEHRAN: Military strikes were reported by local media in several Iranian provinces yesterday, including one on an industrial site in Isfahan that killed 15 people, according to the Fars news agency. AFP could not verify the toll.
The US military has lost 13 personnel. They include six aboard a refuelling aircraft that crashed in Iraq, an incident US officials said was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
In Iran, leaders appeared intent on projecting stability despite the killing of supreme leader Ali Khameneion the war's opening day.
His son Mojtaba Khamenei was named the new supreme leader but has not appeared in public and is reportedly wounded. Iran said Saturday that “there is no problem with the new supreme leader”
Tehran has also shown a capacity to strike at Israel and across the region, firing missiles and dispatching drones ina string of attacks over the weekend.
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