Name: Explosions reported in cities across the Middle East after Israel and US attack Iran | ABC NEWS
Uploaded: 2026-02-28T12:08:52.000Z
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It's only a few hours old, but it's spreading quickly.

This was the reason some of the military brass in Washington did not want a war with Iran for fear that it would spread.

It's clear the Iranians are trying to target the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

It's clear the Iranians are trying to close down the Strait of Hormuz.

The two aircraft carriers, the Abraham Lincoln and the Gerald R. Ford, will try to stop that.

The Agence France press is reporting now loud explosions heard in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

As we know, Iran and Saudi have long been enemies.

Iran is the world leader, the spiritual leader, if you like, of Shia Islam.

Saudi Arabia is the leader of Sunni Islam.

Those two branches within Islam has always meant that these two countries have sometimes been close to war.

Ideologically, spiritually, they don't have much in common, although they're all Muslim.

But in Saudis, it's the Wahhabi tradition and others that they regard as important.

So the fact that there are explosions in Saudi Arabia suggests that Iran might be trying to broaden this into a Shia Sunni war.

A lot of these, we should stress, a lot of these loud bangs don't mean missiles are hitting.

It could mean air defence systems are working.

But really interesting, the key thing here is to watch as well as who the Israelis and the Americans are hitting and where who the Iranians are trying to hit.

Interesting to me what appears to be emerging now is that the Iranians do not appear to be trying hard to hit Israel.

I think they realize they can't penetrate Israeli airspace.

They appear to be trying to hit, if you like, from their military point of view, softer military targets in other parts of the world.

We know that we're hearing explosions in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq.

So it looks like that's what Iran's strategy is now.