{"id":133351,"date":"2026-03-07T05:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/huge-explosions-rock-major-tehran-airport-as-israel-strikes-regime-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:02:45","slug":"huge-explosions-rock-major-tehran-airport-as-israel-strikes-regime-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/huge-explosions-rock-major-tehran-airport-as-israel-strikes-regime-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge explosions rock major Tehran airport as Israel strikes \u2018regime infrastructure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Mar 7 \u2013 Explosions have rocked one of Tehran\u2019s main commercial airports, with eyewitnesses reporting a burning plane on the tarmac. Israel earlier said it was launching a new wave of strikes on Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Trump has said there will be \u201cno deal\u201d with Iran except \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He says following any capitulation, Iran should choose a new leader acceptable to his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to reports that Russia has aided Iran, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth tells CBS News that Trump is \u201cwell aware of who\u2019s talking to who\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US Secretary of War says the US is \u201ctracking everything\u201d and incorporating it all into its battle plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people can rest assured their commander-in-chief is well aware of who\u2019s talking to who,\u201d Hegseth told CBS. \u201cAnd anything that shouldn\u2019t be happening, whether it\u2019s in public or back-channeled, is being confronted and confronted strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth added: \u201cWe\u2019re putting the other guys in danger, and that\u2019s our job. So we\u2019re not concerned about that. \u2026 But the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they\u2019re gonna live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, a senior US official told CBS News, the BBC\u2019s US partner, that Russia has been providing intelligence to Iran on US positions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin spoke with Iran\u2019s President to offer condolences and voice Russia\u2019s stance that hostilities need to end. Both parties agreed to continue their communications, according to a statement from Putin\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran residents told BBC Persian \u201clast night was the worst night\u201d so far and describe strikes \u201cevery few hours\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s health ministry says there have been 217 deaths since Israeli strikes began, as large explosions are seen in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Foreign Office says that a second chartered flight carrying stranded British nationals back from Oman has taken off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Mar 7 \u2013 Explosions have rocked one of Tehran\u2019s main commercial airports, with eyewitnesses reporting a burning plane on the tarmac. Israel earlier said it was launching a new wave of strikes on Iran. President Trump has said there will be \u201cno deal\u201d with Iran except \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d. He says following any capitulation, Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}