Lebanese Prime Minister says Lebanon will "implement a ban on Hezbollah’s military activities."

BREAKING: A Saudi Defense Ministry spokesperson said five hostile drones were intercepted near Prince Sultan Air Base.

Source: Al Arabiya

Senior Iranian official to Al Jazeera:

Our operations toward the occupied territories will increase in depth and intensity.

Senior Iranian official to Al Jazeera:

In the future, we will work to stop ships linked to the Zionist entity.

General Majid ibn al-Reza has been appointed Acting Defense Minister of Iran, the Presidential Office said.

Jeremy Corbyn:

Allowing British bases to be used in an illegal war of aggression is a catastrophic and historic mistake.

Britain has been dragged into another war because our Prime Minister would rather appease Donald Trump than stand up for international law.

War is not a game. This shameful decision makes Britain complicit in the devastating consequences ahead - and jeopardises the safety of us all.

Israel is bombing Tehran.

Putin held a phone call with UAE President MBZ to discuss the escalation in the Middle East.

WATCH: Non-stop U.S.–Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran.

Greece says it will send two frigates, 2 fighter jets to protect Cyprus after Iranian drone strikes.

NEW: Trump told The Telegraph he was “very disappointed” with Keir Starmer for initially blocking U.S. use of the Diego Garcia air base for strikes on Iran, saying the Prime Minister “took far too long” to approve access.

Trump on Iran:

[There are] people without arms and legs and faces that have been blown up. Iran is 95 per cent of those.

Those horrible events were caused by Iran.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal:

It was a very woke thing.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Iran:

We anticipated two to three weeks to take out some of the leadership, but we’ve taken out all of it in one day.

So that was well ahead of schedule. We always viewed it as a four-week operation.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Iran:

They want to make a deal badly. I said you should have made it a week ago.

Source: The Telegraph

Mike Pompeo to Iranians:

Don’t pick the Chinese. Don’t pick the Russians. Don’t pick the Ayatollah.

Stand with Western civilization. Be decent. Be a normal nation.

Iran hit the US-flagged tanker Stena Imperative while it was in the Port of Bahrain, setting the vessel on fire.

The Stena Imperative is a US-flagged medium-range product tanker enrolled in the US Maritime Administration’s Tanker Security Program.

Reza Pahlavi:

I am ready to go to Iran as soon as possible.

I would like to be there whether it is before the regime collapses or right after it collapses.

Cyprus: Smoke rises from area of British air base following alerts of Iranian drones.

Türkiye’s Transport Minister says flights to Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon have been canceled through March 6.

All planned flights to Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE are canceled until March 3.

BREAKING: QatarEnergy says it halted LNG production after military attacks on its facilities in Ras Laffan and Mesaieed.