Airstrikes Pound Middle East as War in Iran Rages On ⁠13%

By The New York Times⁠0%

2/28/2026, 4:56:58 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Unattributed Quote, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 38.8% saturation with 308 hits. Analysis detected 1,273 faulty-reasoning hits from 793 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠13% (19,240 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.90% of the article peer group.

Here are images from Iran, Israel, Lebanon and elsewhere. 
Strikes have pounded various sites around the Middle East as the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have prompted it to retaliate across the region. 
The war began on Feb. 28 with American and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 
The United States and Israel have hit thousands of targets in Iran. 
Israel has also struck Lebanon, home to the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah. 
Iran and its allies have attacked on Israel as well as Persian Gulf countries, including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 
American bases and other assets in the region have been hit, along with civilian buildings. 
The Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil travels, remained a choke point that threatened the world’s energy supply, sending oil prices sharply higher than before the war and roiling global markets. 
April 
Walking through a debris-filled street in the aftermath of a strike. 
(Beirut, Lebanon) 
Preparing matzo for Passover in a bakery. 
(Bnei Brak, Israel) 
Destruction in the Bachoura neighborhood after an Israeli strike. 
(Beirut, Lebanon) 
Recovering a body after an Iranian missile strike. 
(Beit Shemesh, Israel) 
At a mass funeral for victims of Israeli strikes. 
(Nabi Sheet, Lebanon) 
Seeking refuge at the waterfront after fleeing homes in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. 
(Beirut, Lebanon) 
Transporting a critically injured patient. 
(Tyre, Lebanon) 
Destroyed buildings seen from inside a damaged apartment. 
(Tehran) 
The funeral for Ali Larijani, Iran’s top national security official; Brig. 
Gen. 
Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of Basij forces; and sailors of the IRIS Dena, an Iranian ship that the U.S. torpedoed off the coast of Sri Lanka. 
(Tehran) 
A missile fragment at a school in an Israeli settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 
(Peduel, West Bank) 
Heading into an underground parking lot for shelter after an air-raid siren. 
(Tel Aviv) 
Waiting in a shelter during an air-raid alert. 
(Rishpon, Israel) 
Volunteers preparing meals for people forced from their homes. 
(Beirut, Lebanon) 
Trying to connect electricity wires to restore power to an apartment after Israeli airstrikes. 
(Tyre, Lebanon) 
At a vigil for Ayatollah Khamenei. 
(Tehran) 
Fuel storage and energy complexes under attack. 
(Tehran) 
A woman taking shelter with her children during an air-raid alert. 
(Holon, Israel) 
The site of an Iranian missile strike. 
(Holon, Israel) 
At a funeral for an Israeli soldier killed in combat in southern Lebanon. 
(Jerusalem) 
Gathering around a missile fragment that landed in an orchard near a Palestinian village. 
(Near Hares, West Bank) 
After a strike in the center of the city. 
(Beirut, Lebanon) 
A building damaged during overnight fighting in Bekaa Valley. 
(Nabi Sheet, Lebanon) 
Iranian Kurdish fighters at a secret base in the mountains. 
(Near Erbil, Iraq) 
Surveying damage after an Iranian bombardment. 
(Near Erbil, Iraq) 
Walking through smoke after a strike. 
(Tehran) 
A wounded man at the scene of a strike. 
(Tehran) 
Gathering at Enghelab Square to celebrate the announcement of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader. 
(Tehran) 
Relatives of the Lebanese journalist Mohammed Sherri, who was affiliated with Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s media arm, and his wife, Amaal Khalil Sherri, at their funeral. 
(Aamrousiyeh, Lebanon) 
Smoke rising from a warehouse near Dubai. 
(Sharjah City, United Arab Emirates) 
A picture released by the Iranian foreign media department of the grave digging for victims of a strike on an elementary school. 
(Minab, Iran) 
Children playing near tents inside a sports stadium being used to accommodate people fleeing the war. 
(Beirut, Lebanon) 
A funeral for a man wounded in an Iranian missile strike in central Israel who later died of his injuries. 
(Petah Tikva, Israel) 
A car damaged by shrapnel after an Iranian missile was intercepted. 
(Bnei Brak, Israel) 
A home that was damaged by a projectile during an Iranian missile barrage. 
(Rehovot, Israel) 
A woman watching smoke rise from an oil storage unit that was struck overnight. 
(Tehran) 
Smoke on the skyline after an explosion. 
(Tehran) 
People rushing home after several rounds of strikes in the city. 
(Tehran) 
Watching from a balcony after explosions were heard in Doha. 
(Doha, Qatar) 
A still from a social media video, verified by The New York Times, of extensive damage to a building described as an elementary school. 
(Minab, Iran) 
Transferring a hospital patient to an underground shelter. 
(Tel Aviv) 
Reading the news of the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. 
(Tehran) 
Emergency workers at the site of a missile impact. 
(Tel Aviv) 
A building on fire after a drone strike. 
(Manama, Bahrain) 
A pro-government protest against the U.S. and Israeli strikes. 
(Tehran) 
An earlier version of a photo caption with this article misstated the day when mourners were seen weeping at a burial in Tehran. 
It was on Monday, not Tuesday. 
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