Iranian media reported on Saturday that US-Israeli strikes impacted multiple residential and civilian areas throughout Iran, leading to over a dozen fatalities overnight. These recent attacks are part of a broader conflict that erupted on February 28 following earlier strikes on Iran, which killed the Islamic republic's supreme leader and escalated tensions across West Asia.

In Borujerd, a city in Iran’s western Lorestan province, residential areas were hit, resulting in seven deaths and 36 injuries, according to a provincial official. Similar attacks in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Saturday reportedly killed at least five people and wounded seven others, a local political deputy governor confirmed. Rescuers from the Iranian Red Crescent were observed extracting bodies from damaged residential buildings in Kermanshah, where local media indicated at least 13 people died in separate attacks the previous day. Additionally, blasts struck Iran’s University of Science and Technology in Tehran, causing structural damage but no reported casualties.

The conflict has generated wider regional effects. The Israeli military stated it had identified and intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory a few hours earlier, with no reported casualties or damage in Israel. In the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the Houthis, a Yemeni group, have conducted attacks on shipping, expressing solidarity with Palestinians. This has led Saudi Arabia to divert a significant portion of its oil exports to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, avoiding the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has warned it could close to hostile vessels. On Saturday, the Iranian military claimed to have targeted a US logistics vessel near the Omani port of Salalah; Oman reported a drone attack on the port had injured a foreign worker.

Reports also indicated damage to airport facilities in Kuwait and Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, from recent strikes. In the United Arab Emirates, an industrial zone was struck by Iranian missiles and drones, injuring five people. Within Iran, the Khuzestan Steel Company announced a production shutdown at a major steel plant in the southwest, attributing it to US-Israeli strikes. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned of retaliation for economic damage by targeting industrial sites across the region, having previously issued similar warnings regarding US military bases and hotels hosting American troops. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian urged regional countries against allowing adversaries to conduct the war from their territories.

Diplomatic efforts are underway to ease tensions. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government has emerged as a key intermediary between Iran and the United States. Pakistan is scheduled to host foreign ministers from Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia on Sunday and Monday for discussions aimed at de-escalating regional hostilities. Meanwhile, a US special envoy expressed on Friday Washington’s hope for Iran’s response to a proposed 15-point peace plan.

Since the conflict began on February 28, the overall death toll across West Asia has surpassed 6,000. Iran has experienced significant casualties, with its health ministry reporting over 1,200 deaths as of March 8, a figure that could not be independently verified. Other reports indicate up to 3,389 deaths in Iran, including 1,527 civilians and 228 children, while Red Cross figures cite at least 1,900 killed and 20,000 injured in the country. Elsewhere, casualties include 1,142 in Lebanon, over 400 Hezbollah fighters, 95 in Iraq, 24 in Israel, and 13 US service members.