Inside the Iran Vs US-Israel War: 10 Defining Images of the Escalating Crisis

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The sun sets behind a plume of smoke rising after a U.S.–Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran. 

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2/10: A man carries an Iranian flag to place on the rubble of a police facility struck during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran / Image: AP

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Clerics and other government supporters mourn in a gathering after state TV officially announced the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men celebrate the festival of Purim in Jerusalem, amid the war with Iran. Wednesday.

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5/10: A cleric leads a group of volunteers in prayer next to a police facility struck during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran / Image: AP

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Mourners take cover while air-raid sirens warn of incoming missiles launched by Iran toward Israel during the funeral of Sarah Elimelech, who was killed in an Iranian missile attack in Israel.

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Residents and officials attend the funeral of people killed in what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike Feb. 28 on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran.

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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburb, near Rafik Hariri International Airport, Lebanon.

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Firefighters try to extinguish flames in a building after a direct hit by an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Israeli tanks manoeuvre near the Israel-Lebanon border, in northern Israel.

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