Tensions have risen across the Middle East in the past week since the US-Israeli attack on Iran. On Friday, Israel intensified airstrikes on Beirut, the southern Lebanese region, in addition to Tehran. The region is considered a base for the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. 

More than 1,200 people have been killed in the US-Israeli attack in Iran and more than 120 in Lebanon since the conflict began, according to state media in those countries. Other countries in the Middle East have been affected by Iran's retaliation.

Iran has not only attacked US military infrastructure in the Middle East, but also  oil refineries, residential buildings, hotels and government property.

Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia said on Friday morning that they had repelled Iran's missile and drone attacks  . Similarly, on Thursday, Azerbaijan accused Iran of carrying out a drone attack on its country. Iran has denied this.

US President Donald Trump said the US was launching drone and missile strikes on Iran every hour. He said that the missiles were being fired. He claimed that Iran's navy had been destroyed and the air force was very weak.

Similarly, US Defense Secretary

Pete Hegseth said that the US would dramatically increase its attack . Earlier, Adam Brad Cooper, head of the US Central Command (Centcom), had claimed that 17 ships of the Iranian navy had been destroyed in the US attack. 'The Iranian regime has disrupted international traffic for years. There are currently no Iranian ships in the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and we will continue to attack,' Cooper wrote on the social network X.

After the US dropped bombs on major Iranian naval bases, the ships there were damaged. 

Earlier, last Wednesday, an Iranian ship crashed near Sri Lankan waters, killing at least 87 people. Similarly, 32 people were injured. 

The US has taken responsibility for the attack on the ship. The US has said that the ship was torpedoed by its submarine. Another Iranian ship entered Sri Lankan waters on Friday.

Sri Lanka has kept this ship, which had one engine broken, in its port. Similarly, 208 members of the ship have been rescued. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumar Dissanayake said that about 208 people on the boat have been rescued. He said that Sri Lanka is always ready to protect humanity. 

Iran's Revolutionary Guards had previously threatened to destroy the USS Abraham Lincoln warship with drone and missile attacks. However, now 20 ships of the Iranian navy have sunk in the water.

Similarly, Gulf News has claimed that Iran's air force is also very weak. Iran has launched 735 ballistic missiles, 25 cruise missiles and 1,745 drone attacks during this period.

All of these attacks have targeted US military facilities in Israel, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman and across the Middle East. However, most of the missiles and drones have been shot down by Middle Eastern countries before they reach their targets. 

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said that many new weapons are being used in the war. As of Thursday, the US Central Command claims that Iran's ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90% and drone attacks by 83%.

  As the war has dragged on, France and Britain have also announced that they will allow the US to use their air bases for defensive support. While both of them condemned the US attack when the war began a week ago. 

  Since February 28,  more than 11,000 flights have been canceled in 10 countries in the Middle East, according to Flight Radar 24 data. Dubai International Airport, one of the world's busiest transit airports, connecting 291 destinations, has seen 87 percent of flights cut since the conflict began.

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman have also suspended a large number of flights. Only a limited number of rescue flights have been operated so far. 

Leaderless Iran, Trump's interest in choosing a new leader  

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Revolutionary Guards Chief Mohammad Pakpour were killed on the first day of the Israel-US attack. The US-Israeli bombed the Supreme Leader's residence while a meeting was underway.

They had received information about the meeting through the CIA. After this incident, Iran has still not been able to choose a supreme leader. The government is being run by a three-member interim leadership formed by President Masoud Pezizkian, the Chief Justice and a representative of the Guardian Council.

Earlier, the 88-member Assembly of Experts, which is supposed to elect the Supreme Leader, held a virtual meeting after Israel attacked the building. However, they have not yet been able to select a new leader.

Trump has said that he wants to be involved in selecting the new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US attack, is being discussed as a contender for the new Supreme Leader. But Trump has said that Mojtaba cannot be accepted as the new leader.

‘They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is weak. I should be involved in the appointment myself,’ Trump said in an interview with Axios.

In Venezuela, the US supported the court’s decision to make Vice President Delcy Rodriguez interim president after the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro last January. He has been saying that the US needs a similar leader in Iran.

‘We attacked there and activated the government there. Now we have Delcy. "She's very good," Trump told reporters last week. 

Trump has said he cannot set a time limit for a war with Iran. He had previously said the war would last for four weeks at most. But he now says he cannot set a time limit.

He said there was no need to deploy troops in the Middle East because air strikes in Iran could achieve their goals. He said he had a plan to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and to end its missile program.