IRAN has branded the US as “Great Satan” as it “acts, targets, and kills like the devil” after five people, including a four-year-old child, were killed in an airstrike.
The Iranian Red Crescent said another 50 people were injured by shrapnel from a US missile attack on a home, where a wedding was taking place, in the southern city of Sirik.
People survey damage at the site in the aftermath of a reported attack in Sirik, Iran, September 1, 2026 Credit: Reuters
At least 50 people were injured in Sirik, Iran, September 1, 2026 Credit: Reuters
Altogether 18 people have been killed across the country after US forces resumed strikes late last night – with Donald Trump threatening that the “biggest one” is yet to come.
Reacting to the escalation, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf said: “All of America’s actions are an imitation of the devil, and America itself is the great devil.
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” If a power acts like the devil, chooses its targets like the devil, and kills like the devil, that power is the devil.
“If that same power supports and shields a smaller devil that does exactly the same things, then it itself is the ‘Great Satan’.”
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Rubble lies around damaged houses following a reported attack near a wedding gathering in Sirik, Iran, September 2, 2026 Credit: Reuters
A US military aircraft preparing to take off ahead of the attacks Credit: Reuters
The US deployed over a dozen ballistic missiles on Iran, targeting its radar systems and military assets along the coastline.
In a post on Truth Social, the US President said he was battering Iran in a “very justified attack” with strikes that were “large and powerful”.
Trump vowed that any retaliatory strikes from Iran will result in being “hit again at a much harder and higher level”.
His warning came as Iran unleashed missiles and drones at US targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain.
US Central Command conducting strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran Credit: U.S. Central Command
Another overnight US strike in Iran Credit: U.S. Central Command
Iranian air force fighter jets carried out the “heavy” attack on hangars housing drones at the Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan overnight, the IRNA news agency said.
“A number of pilots and flight maintenance crew members were killed,” the statement claimed.
It added multiple facilities at the base caught fire following the attack.
But two US sources have denied any American casualties in the Iranian aggression.
Pledging to respond to “savage crimes with firmness,” the Iranian foreign ministry said: “Those governments and international institutions that remain silent in the face of such barbarism, or seek to justify such acts, must understand that their silence is not neutrality.
“Those who remain silent today will not be immune to its consequences tomorrow.”
The tit-for-tat strikes end a months-long stalemate since July in which both sides have mostly held fire – but showed no appetite for ceasefire talks.
Iran’s war-battered economy and degraded conventional forces have left it stretched thin, while the US Army is believed to have burned through much of its global stockpile of precision long-range missiles.
A child is among the victims in Kuhistik, Sirik, Iran, September 1, 2026 Credit: Reuters
A damaged structure at the site in Kuhistik, Sirik, Iran, September 1, 2026 Credit: Reuters
But Trump said he would not force Iran back to the bargaining table.
“I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement,” he wrote on social media.
“I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.
“They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?”
A US-Iran agreement, known as the Memorandum of Understanding, to extend an April ceasefire between the two countries was signed in June.
But that agreement has expired, leading to a resumption of hostilities.
Pakistan confirmed it remains engaged in diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis that has now engulfed most of the Middle East.
Foreign ministry spokesperson, Tahir Andrabi, said during a press briefing: “Pakistan remains engaged, alongside our brotherly countries, in sincere efforts to resolve the crisis with respects to the standoff between Iran and the US.”
Andrabi said the Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, met with the president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, where he “reiterated Pakistan’s sincere commitment to peace through dialogue and diplomacy”.
