{"id":343499,"date":"2026-03-15T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=343499"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:54:47","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-march-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-march-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 March 15, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporters of the NCRI as well as other political and ethnic groups held a major rally in Hamburg, Germany, on March 14, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h3>\n

UPDATE: 08:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s War Enters a New Domestic Phase as Strikes Hit Security Sites, Checkpoints and Cities Across the Country<\/h2>\n

Iran entered the sixteenth day of war with the battlefield pressing deeper into the country\u2019s urban core and coercive infrastructure. Overnight and into Sunday morning, explosions were reported in Tehran, Isfahan, Dezful, Hamedan, Shiraz, Tabriz, Garmsar, Qom and Sirjan, with repeated strikes reported on military, security and state-linked sites.<\/p>\n

In Tehran, residents described blasts across<\/a> the center, west and south of the capital; in Isfahan, repeated strikes were reported around army aviation facilities, the Jey industrial zone and other military-linked sites; in Dezful, the Fourth Tactical Air Base was reported hit again; and in western Tehran, images showed fire at the Tarasht Space Research Institute. In Hamedan, reports pointed to strikes near Eram, Qasemabad, Beheshti township and a judicial complex, while local reporting from Shiraz described renewed hits around the air base and airport zone.<\/p>\n

The attacks also kept zeroing in on the regime\u2019s internal security architecture. Drone strikes on Basij and IRGC-linked checkpoints continued to mount, with funerals and domestic reporting indicating rising losses among forces deployed to control movement in Tehran and other cities. Tasnim, Fars and other state media reports<\/a>, identified several of the dead, including Basij personnel buried after checkpoint strikes and a Tehran Basij commander reportedly killed in the latest wave. Fars had already acknowledged at least 10 deaths in the first wave of checkpoint attacks in Tehran, while Reuters separately reported that Israeli operations had increasingly focused on checkpoints, using informants and inside intelligence to hit coercive nodes used to police the capital.<\/p>\n

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Iran News Alert: Prisoners across Iran face bombardment with no shelters while authorities refuse to release them. <\/p>\n

Reports from Fashafouyeh, Ahar, and Gonbad-e Kavus prisons describe severe shortages of food, water, and medicine as NOPO forces suppress inmates trying to reach\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/EkXSDaVkV4<\/a><\/p>\n

— SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n