War in the Middle East: +++ Trump declares Iran war 'won' — and still wants to keep fighting +++ Live ticker

Israel and the United States have been attacking Iran for more than a week, and some details cannot be independently verified.

“'We have won,' says Donald Trump about the war with Iran”

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After the killing of the religious supreme leader Ajatollah Ali Chamenei, his son, Modschtaba Chamenei, was chosen as successor.

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Since the start of the war, Iran has been firing drones and rockets at Israel and the Gulf states.

A second front has opened between Israel and the Lebanon-based terrorist militia Hisbollah.

Fighting has included cross-border rocket barrages and heavy airstrikes: Hisbollah fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel and Israeli forces said they launched a 'large-scale wave of attacks' on Hisbollah infrastructure in the Dahiyeh suburb of southern Beirut.

Israeli eyewitnesses and residents reported at least six airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, loud explosions and trembling buildings and windows.

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Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said a woman and a man were slightly injured; Israeli Channel 12 and the Times of Israel reported Hisbollah fired around 150 rockets and called it the 'largest Hisbollah attack on Israel' since the start of the Iran war.

According to Israeli military sources, Hisbollah and Iran carried out a joint rocket attack on northern Israel for the first time since the start of the war.

The conflict has produced high-profile strikes with disputed responsibility and ongoing investigations: insiders told Reuters and US outlets that outdated target data may have led to the attack on a girls' school in Minab that Iranian officials say killed 150 schoolgirls on the first day of the US-Israeli offensive.

“'We have won,' says Donald Trump about the war with Iran”

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The New York Times reported a preliminary US military investigation found outdated DIA intelligence had been used and said the school was hit while a Tomahawk missile apparently struck a nearby naval base on February 28.

US President Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the attack, later said he was 'willing to live with' whatever the investigation produces, and US opposition figures demanded a 'full and impartial' Pentagon probe.

The war has produced political, economic and cyber fallout: the UN Security Council condemned Iranian attacks on Gulf states with 13 votes in favor and Russia and China abstaining, while Iran condemned new EU sanctions and called US and Israeli action 'brutal and unlawful aggression.'

The United States and other IEA members partly released strategic oil reserves, a move President Trump said would be 'reduced a bit, and that will lower prices,' but the release did not sustainably depress prices and Brent stood at $92.44 a barrel after recent volatility.

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Insiders reported US war costs for the first six days likely exceeded $11.3 billion and Congress may be asked for additional funds; Trump also said the US has struck '28 mine ships' though the US military had earlier said it destroyed 16 minelayers.

An Iran-linked hacker group, Handala, claimed a cyberattack on medical technology company Stryker in retaliation for the Minab school attack and said it disabled more than 200,000 systems and servers in 79 countries; Stryker confirmed disruptions.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said ships must obtain Tehran's permission to transit the Strait of Hormuz and reported attacking two commercial vessels, naming the Liberian-flagged Express Rome and Thailand's Mayuree Naree, while Oman's navy rescued 20 crew and three were reported missing.