On Saturday 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched a coordinated military attack on Iran, which led to a violent escalation of the conflict in the mediate East and opened a fresh chapter in a decade-long confrontation between Tehran and the West.
According to information Al Jazeery and the relations of American officials, both Israeli Air Force and United States Air Force participate in the activities, making the operation joint and planned. The attacks occurred in the morning erstwhile explosions and smoke columns were observed over Tehran and another regions of Iran, and Iraqi and Iranian media reported respective rocket strikes on the capital of the country.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz described the actions as a "preventive attack" aimed at removing, as noted, the threats to Israel's security, which coincided with the vast presence of the American armed forces in the region and was the consequence of months of expanding tensions around Iran's atomic and rocket program. According to reports, the first strikes besides included areas of the complex associated with Iran's highest leader ajatollah. Ali ChameneimAlthough his presence in this place has not been independently confirmed.
Iran's reaction was immediate. Iranian armed forces responded by a wave of rocket and drone attack towards Israel and US bases in the Gulf region. Reports from global media indicate that Iran's missiles hit, among others, the bases in Kuwait, the United arabian Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar, as confirmed by Iran's information agencies and Western media reporting the defence efforts of neighbouring countries.
President Donald Trump in an authoritative message announced the launch of a "serious combat operation", pointing to Iran's perennial hostility to the US and Israel and the request to neutralise possible threats, as well as calling on the Iranians to take control of their own government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that the aim of the joint operation is to destruct the alleged "existential threat" by the Iranian government and its arms programme.
The effects of the attacks besides affected civilians and infrastructure. Over Tehran, the floating dense smoke was visible on media coverage, and Iran's airspace was closed to air traffic. Airlines around the world, fearing further escalation of the conflict, cancelled or suspended flights over the mediate East region, causing disruption to global air traffic.
The escalation of the conflict besides sparked political responses. Ministry of abroad Affairs of many countries, including Poland, monitor the situation and call for caution, but at this phase no information about the injured citizens of the Polish Republic has been reported. At the same time India issued a informing to its citizens in the region, recommending peculiar caution and avoiding travel to Israel and the surrounding areas.
The events of 28 February 2026 are the most serious escalation of armed action between the West and Iran in many years and may have far-reaching geopolitical, economical and humanitarian consequences internationally.
American preparations for the attack on Iran continued for weeks, even before the coordinated strikes of Israel and the United States took place. In fresh months, Washington has successively built the largest military presence in the mediate East region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, shifting hundreds of fighters, air defence systems and powerful naval forces closer to Iran's borders. American media cited the crucial increase in air and naval forces around Iran, including the metastasis of subsequent units and equipment, and the fact that the option of utilizing force was already being considered viable in the last weeks before the attack.
Throughout February, a large American fleet was headed in the arabian Sea, the Gulf and the Persian Gulf, with the peculiar participation of 2 aircraft carriers, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) – along with teams of escort ships and destroyers. USS Abraham Lincoln was already in mid-January 2026 in the Arabian Sea, close Iran and within scope of possible operations, after redirecting from another theatres of action. The second aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, left the port on the island of Crete in the central Mediterranean basin and headed for the east waters of the Mediterranean and the mediate East, which meant a large increase in the offensive possible and air strike capability in the region.
Men on the roof of a home in Tehran are watching the attack on Iran's capital, Saturday, 28.02.2026, photograph / source: Associated Press (AP)The activity of both superlighters and their insurance teams, consisting of destroyers and logistical support, was observed in the waters Arab Sea and in the vicinity of strategical straits specified as the Strait of Ormuz and the Gulf of Oman, close the confederate coasts of Iran. Ormuz Strait, a key point of trade in energy natural materials, is 1 of the most crucial marine oil and gas transport arteries in the world, and that is where many units operating within the 5th US Fleet are concentrated.
The presence of specified large American forces and their gradual movement from January 2026 clearly indicated that Washington had been preparing the ground for a possible offensive before tensions had turned into actual warfare. Parallel reinforcement of rocket defence and the launch of fighters to bases in the region demonstrated that the planning of operations included both the anticipation of attacking and securing their own forces.
Today's attack was the consequence of these preparations and, according to analysts, was not a abrupt impulse, but the culmination of weeks of targeted military and logistical metastasis, which, in a situation of escalation of the conflict with Iran, enabled Israel and the US to decision rapidly from the presence of a deterrent to a coordinated offensive.
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• title photo: smoke after Tehran explosion, Iran, Saturday, 28.02.2026, photograph / source: Associated Press (AP)
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