Trump says there will be no deal with Iran "except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"

The U.S. military shared a video late Thursday that it says shows an Iranian drone carrier being struck in the Iran conflict.

"U.S. forces aren't holding back on the mission to sink the entire Iranian Navy," U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. "Today, an Iranian drone carrier, roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier, was struck and is now on fire."

President Trump has said one of the objectives of the campaign against Iran is to annihilate Iran's navy. U.S. officials said earlier this week that the operation has destroyed more than 20 Iranian naval vessels and a submarine. An American submarine also sank an Iranian warship.

Four men were arrested in London on Friday on suspicion of spying for Iran, according to the Metropolitan Police.

Counterterrorism police with the force apprehended the men in the early hours of Friday morning at addresses in Barnet and Watford, on London's northern outskirts, the Metropolitan Police, or Met, said.

The investigation centered on "suspected surveillance of locations and individuals linked to the Jewish community" in London, according to a statement from the police.

"Today's arrests are part of a long-running investigation and part of our ongoing work to disrupt malign activity where we suspect it," said Commander Helen Flanagan, the Met's counter-terror chief.

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An airplane emblazoned with the New England Patriots' logo has been used to bring stranded Americans home from the Middle East.

Dylan Johnson, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, shared a photo on X of Americans boarding the Patriots plane, at least the second such flight that landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Friday.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft is a friend and supporter of President Trump, but his football franchise did not arrange or pay for the flight.

"One of the companies the State Department contracted for charter flights also manages the New England Patriots team plane. This flight was entirely paid for by the State Department. The New England Patriots organization was not involved in this flight," the State Department said.

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Israeli airstrikes pounded the capitals of Iran and Lebanon on Friday, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic. The U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea.

Iran launched new retaliatory attacks against neighboring countries that host U.S. forces. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The latest strikes mark a full week of attacks affecting countries across the Middle East.

This map shows the latest documented strikes by the U.S., Israel and Iran.

UNICEF said Friday that it is deeply concerned about the impact of the ongoing military escalation in Iran on children.

It said about 180 children have been killed and many more injured so far, which is a "stark reminder of the brutality of war and violence on children."

"Children and schools are protected under International Humanitarian Law and must be places of safety," UNICEF said in a statement. "As military strikes continue across the region, children are increasingly exposed to violence and the impact on essential civilian infrastructure poses a direct threat to their wellbeing."

The organization called on all parties to uphold their obligations under international and ensure the protection of civilians. It said that it is closely monitoring the situation and stands ready to support humanitarian efforts.

President Trump said Friday that there would be no deal with Iran except if there is "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"

"After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. "IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!)'"

Mr. Trump has said multiple times that whoever takes over leadership of Iran must be to the U.S.'s liking.

Thousands of men and women took part in a demonstration in the streets of Tehran on Friday, in a show of defiance against the U.S. and Israel.

Waving clenched fists and Iranian flags and holding images of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the marchers chanted, "We'll fight, we'll die, we won't accept humiliation" and "No compromise, no surrender, destruction of Israel."

Iranians hold images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they take part in a demonstration against the U.S. and Israel following Friday prayers on March 6, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. Majid Saeedi / Getty Images

Hassan Fathollahi, 54, told the Associated Press that he had brought his children to "make our enemies understand that we and our children will sacrifice our lives for the (Islamic) revolution."

"We will not give up the blood of our leader. Every single son of Iran is ready to fight America and Israel until victory, God willing," he said.

Iranians take part in a demonstration against the U.S. and Israel following Friday prayers on March 6, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.  Majid Saeedi / Getty Images

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Russia's government is in a dialogue with Iran's leadership and will continue that dialogue, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday during a regular briefing.

"We are in dialogue with representatives of the Iranian leadership, and we will certainly continue this dialogue," Peskov told reporters, responding to a question about how Russia is assisting its ally Iran. 

He spoke after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Russia and China were assisting Iran politically and "in other ways."

Peskov said Moscow was seeing "a significant increase in demand for Russian energy resources" due to the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Those were the only comments Peskov made in relation to Iran at his Friday briefing. 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed in a brief post on social media earlier Friday that some countries had "begun mediation efforts" as the war against his nation continued, but he provided no further information about those efforts or which nations were involved.

The national average gas price in the U.S. is continuing to rise, hitting $3.32 on Friday, according to AAA. That's up from $3.25 on Thursday.

The national average was $2.90 a month ago and $3.11 a year ago.

Before the uptick, gas prices had been sliding for months and dipped below $3 in December. They started rising before last weekend, on the possibility of the U.S. launching attacks on Iran.

"The actual attacks themselves, obviously, are a major escalation," said Patrick De Haan, a petroleum expert at GasBuddy.

De Haan told CBS News he expected the price of gas to keep rising over the next week before the pace of price hikes starts to moderate.

Despite ongoing U.S.-Israeli strikes against its launch capabilities and claims from Washington and Tel Aviv that its offensive capacity is being rapidly reduced, Iran was still firing missiles and dozens of drones at U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf on Friday. 

Sirens reportedly sounded in Kuwait City hours after the Iranian Army claimed to be unleashing "a large volume of Army attack drones" against "U.S. positions" in Kuwait.

The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, said it had "detected and intercepted 9 ballistic missiles. Additionally, 112 drones were detected, of which 109 were intercepted, while 3 fell within UAE territory."

"Since the start of the Iranian attacks, 205 ballistic missiles have been tracked, with 190 destroyed, 13 falling into the sea, and 2 impacting within UAE territory. Meanwhile, 1,184 Iranian drones were detected, 1,110 intercepted, and 74 fell on UAE soil. Eight cruise missiles were also detected and destroyed," the UAE's Ministry of Defense said in its statement, shared on social media.

The UAE said earlier this week that Iranian strikes had killed three people in the country, Pakistani, Nepali, and Bangladeshi nationals, and left at least 112 people with minor injuries as of Friday.

The Ministry of Defense "emphasized that it remains fully prepared and ready to respond to any threats, protect national security and sovereignty, and ensure the safety and stability of the country." 

Two regional officials told CBS News' Margaret Brennan on Thursday that America's Persian Gulf allies were running dangerously low on interceptors to take down Iranian weapons.

Israeli military said Friday that it had destroyed the military bunker of Iran's supreme leader in the heart of Tehran, with strikes involving dozens of Israeli fighter jets. 

Longtime Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the initial wave of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, "before he could use the bunker," the statement from the Israel Defense Forces said, but it added that the underground compound remained "one of the Iranian leadership's most important military command centers."

"Targeting the bunker further degrades the regime's command and control capabilities," the IDF said, adding that "approximately 50 Israeli Air Force fighter jets guided by precise IDF intelligence" carried out the early morning mission to destroy the compound.

"It spanned multiple streets in the heart of Tehran and contained numerous entrances and meeting rooms for senior members of the Iranian terrorist regime," the IDF said, sharing video it said showed the operation from several angles.

An image taken from video shared by the Israel Defense Forces on March 6, 2026, shows two different views of strikes the IDF said had "dismantled" an underground bunker in the heart of Tehran, Iran, used by the country's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Handout/Israel Defense Forces

The United Nations on Friday demanded swift investigations into fatal Israeli strikes across Lebanon to determine whether they violate international law.

"The devastating impact of this renewed conflict is already before our eyes, with civilians paying a painfully heavy price," U.N. rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. "We urge the parties to step back from the brink of a major escalation of this conflict in Lebanon."

Her comments came as fresh Israeli strikes battered Lebanon, where Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned "a humanitarian disaster is looming" due to mass displacement.

Shamdasani warned that "Israel's military ground incursions into southern Lebanon, blanket displacement orders for the population in Beirut's southern suburbs, the Bekaa region and the full area to the south of the Litani river, and its continued air strikes on different parts of the country, are bringing more misery and suffering to an already weary civilian population."

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, March 6, 2026. Ibrahim AMRO/AFP/Getty

"These warnings and displacement orders issued for the south of Lebanon reportedly affected more than 100 towns and villages — home to tens of thousands of people, and risk affecting many more," she said.

"In addition, on Thursday, the Israeli army urged the complete evacuation of almost the entire southern suburb of Beirut, creating fear and panic among residents, as well as the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon."

Shamdasani warned that in all, "hundreds of thousands have now been affected by these Israeli displacement orders," cautioning that they risked amounting to "prohibited forced displacement" under international law.

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Iran fired another salvo of missiles at Israel on Friday, the Israeli military said, after it announced a fresh wave of strikes targeting the Iranian regime in Tehran.

The Israel Defense Forces said in its latest alert — of which there have been many thousands during the nearly-week-long war — that it had detected missiles "recently launched from Iran towards the territory of the State of Israel," adding that defense systems were "working to intercept the threat."

It urged people to heed warnings sent from the Israeli Home Front Command directly to people's cell phones "in the relevant areas."

The vast majority of Iran's missiles and drones targeting Israel are intercepted, but at least 10 people have been killed by weapons that have slipped through the country's air defenses so far, and three others have died in related incidents, according to data compiled by the independent Israeli Institute for National Security Studies think tank.

The ongoing U.S.-Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,200 people in Iran over the last seven days, according to the Islamic Republic's health ministry.

Israeli officials told reporters on Friday that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have been speaking with each other daily during the war.

The officials said the joint operations against Iran have thus far gone as planned, with cracks appearing in the Iranian regime, but they added that "it may take time" to achieve objectives.

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Qatar's foreign ministry on Friday condemned "in the strongest terms" an Iranian strike that it said hit buildings in the tiny neighboring kingdom of Bahrain that were housing Qatari naval forces.

The statement said the Qatari troops were taking part in the Unified Military Command of the regional Gulf Cooperation Council, calling the Iranian strike a "dangerous escalation" and "a blatant act of aggression and a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Bahrain and a direct threat to its security and stability and the security of the region."

The Qatari ministry said all of its personnel at the scene of the strike were safe and there were no injuries. 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed in a brief post on social media Friday that some, unidentified countries had "begun mediation efforts" as the U.S.-Israeli war against his nation continued apace. 

"Let's be clear: we are committed to lasting peace in the region yet we have no hesitation in defending our nation's dignity & sovereignty. Mediation should address those who underestimated the Iranian people and ignited this conflict," Pezeshkian said.

Pezeshkian, long considered a relatively moderate member of Iran's government, did not provide any further detail, and the country's military commanders have issued statements in recent days suggesting no interest in a negotiated end to the war. 

President Trump told NBC News on Thursday that the objective of the joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran was to "go in and clean out" the country's theocratic leadership. He added, however, that he had some ideas about who within Iran might make a "good leader," and that the U.S. was taking unspecified measures to keep those individuals alive during the war.

Several Gulf nations were directly involved in brokering indirect negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, which were abruptly cut off when the U.S. and Israel launched their attack on Feb. 28. 

CBS News has sought comment from officials in Doha, Qatar, which was a key broker in those talks, along with contacts in Tehran and Oman's capital Muscat, about Pezeshkian's claim of new "mediation efforts."

The Iranian Army claimed Friday to be unleashing "a large volume of Army attack drones" that it said were "hitting U.S. positions" in Kuwait.

"Over the past hours, various types of attack drones from the Ground Forces carried out concentrated strikes on U.S. bases in Kuwait," the army said in a post on social media, adding that the "attacks will continue in the coming hours."

There were no immediate reports of incoming drones in Kuwait, but the small U.S. Gulf ally has been struck repeatedly by Iranian drones and missiles since the war began almost a week ago — including the drone strike on the first day of the conflict that killed six U.S. troops at a military installation. 

Four men were arrested in the U.K. capital Friday on suspicion of spying for Iran, according to the London Metropolitan Police. Counterterror officers apprehended the men — one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals — in the early hours of Friday morning in the northern suburbs of Barnet and Watford, the force said.

The investigation centred on "suspected surveillance of locations and individuals linked to the Jewish community" in London, according to a press release.

"Today's arrests are part of a long-running investigation and part of our ongoing work to disrupt malign activity where we suspect it," said Commander Helen Flanagan, the Met's counterterror chief.

The men were 55, 52, 40 and 22, according to the police statement. Six others were arrested on suspicion of assisting the alleged offenders, and another was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

Sam Vinograd, a former DHS assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat protection, told CBS News this week that Iran represents a "multi-dimensional threat" to the U.S. homeland, with a "deep bench of players they tap into to inflict damage," including proxies — regional, like-minded terrorist organizations — along with state agents. 

Iran has developed what she called "surrogate networks here in the United States — regular criminals that they actually hire and pay money to do things like murders and assassinations."

Explosions were reported in Tehran and Beirut on Friday after Israel's military announced a new "wave of strikes" in both cities, stepping up its war against both the Iranian regime and Hezbollah, one of its most powerful regional proxy groups, in Lebanon.

Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes in a central area of the Iranian capital Tehran, March 6, 2026. ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty

An Israeli military official said strikes were targeting "the terrorist regime's infrastructure" in Tehran, while in Lebanon's capital, they said there were "several waves of strikes" in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut against Hezbollah targets, following "extensive calls on the civilian population in the area to evacuate in order to reduce civilian casualties."

The military official said more than 500 targets were hit in Lebanon, "including senior Hezbollah terrorists," rocket launchers, and command and weapons storage facilities.

Israel claims to have achieved "near-complete air superiority" over Iran, as the ongoing joint strikes with the U.S. entered their seventh day. Israel says those strikes have destroyed more than 80% of Iran's air defense systems.

"We're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour," President Trump said Thursday, calling Iranian forces "tough" but badly weakened.

Still, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi says the fight is far from over, and insists Tehran is "not asking for a ceasefire."

As Iranian drones and missiles continue to target U.S. allies across the Gulf, sirens blared again Friday across Kuwait City, where operations at the U.S. Embassy were suspended the previous day.

President Trump has said the objective of the war against Iran is to "go in and clean out" the country's theocratic leadership. In a phone interview with NBC News, Mr. Trump also said he has some ideas about who would be a "good leader" there.

"We want to go in and clean out everything," he said. "We don't want someone who would rebuild over a 10-year period."

The president added that the U.S. was taking measures to try to assure that the people he has in mind survive the war, without offering any details.

Mr. Trump said earlier that he'd "have to be involved" in the appointment of Iran's next leader, calling the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been mentioned as a possible successor, an "unacceptable" option and a "lightweight." 

Speaking Monday at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the U.S. operation was "laser-focused: destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have nuclear weapons."

He rejected criticism of the operation as the beginning of another "endless war" in the Middle East and insisted it was "not a so-called regime-change war."

"But the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it today," Hegseth said.

NATO has "increased its alliance-wide ballistic missile defense posture" in the wake of the interception of a missile that was launched toward Turkey on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the alliance said.

"This immediate action was taken by the commander of NATO's Air Command, who further recommended NATO's ballistic missile defense posture remain at this heightened level until the threat from Iran's continued indiscriminate attacks across the region subsides," the spokesperson said, adding that "the adjustment gives the Supreme Allied Commander Europe exactly what he needs to defend the alliance based upon the current threat and defend it he will!"

"As the world witnessed yesterday, NATO perfectly executed its ballistic missile defense procedures. In less than 10 minutes, NATO service members identified a threat to allies, a ballistic missile, confirmed its trajectory, alerted land- and sea-based missile defense systems, and launched an interceptor to defeat the threat and protect our territory and its people," the statement continued. "That is real strength!"

Turkey is a NATO ally, and the missile attack raised questions about whether the alliance would invoke Article V of the NATO charter, which states that a strike against one member should be considered an attack against all.

Saudi Arabia's defense ministry reported early Friday that it intercepted three Iranian drones east of its capital, Riyadh.

On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was targeted by an Iranian drone attack which caused a small fire and minor damage, the defense ministry said. There were no reported injuries. 

According to Israel's private Institute for National Security Studies, Saudi Arabia has been targeted by 14 missiles and five drones since the war began. 

Qatari officials announced early Friday morning local time that their military stopped an Iranian drone targeting the Al Udeid airbase in Doha.

The Qatari Ministry of Defense said in a statement that its defense forces "successfully intercepted a drone attack" targeting Al Udeid, which is the largest U.S. base in the Middle East with about 8,000 to 10,000 U.S. troops. 

Qatari's defense ministry had reported Thursday that the country was targeted by 14 ballistic missiles and four drones from Iran. All but one of the missiles were intercepted, with the remaining missile landing in ocean waters.

The U.S. Embassy in Qatar on Wednesday announced that the State Department had ordered all non-emergency government employees and their families to leave Qatar. The embassy said it was under a shelter-in-place order for all remaining emergency personnel.

"To the extent possible, remain inside your residence, hotel, or another structure, and stay away from windows," the embassy said.