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  1. A group of around 15 people, some seated, some standing, at the airport. Some with the Lion and Sun flag, which served as the official state flag before the Islamic revolution in Iran

  2. Pete Hegseth stands at a podium wearing a blue suit and a blue striped tie while point his right hand towrads reporters

  3. The BBC's Emily Wither speaks to a man who was injured by an exploding bomb

  4. Splitscreen. Left, a woman speaks to camera. Right, a man with shades and a hat.

  5. Mark Zuckerberg walking down the grey stone steps of a Los Angeles court house wearing a navy suit blazer, grey neck tie and white shirt.

  6. Shipping in Strait of Hormuz - 6 March 2026 graphic

  7. An emergency worker in Tehran shields her face as black smoke rises behind her. She is wearing a red and white jacket and a face mask and standing in a sandy location. The image is imposed over the BBC Verify colours and branding.

  8. President Putin and President Trump face one another and shake hands. They appear to be mid-conversation

  9. Exterior damage to a room at the Ramada Plaza hotel following an Israeli strike that the Israeli military says killed four Iranian Revolutionary Guards, in Raouche, Beirut, Lebanon (8 March 2026)

  10. BBC correspondent Nick Beake sat inside a car driving through Dubai's Port of Jebel Ali

  11. Image of an air base, with a forklift truck in the background. In the foreground can be seen a number of military personnel in khaki uniforms who are guiding explosive ordnance into position.

  12. Aerial shot of HMS Dragon in Portsmouth harbour

  13. Salem Michel Al-Salem in a court sketch - he is on the right of the picture with a breathing tube on his mouth, a grey sweatshirt, he has a bald head and is slumped in an armchair. The tube makes his expression unclear. His translator, a woman with black shoulder length hair, a brown blazer, white shirt, and glasses, is sitting next to him

  14. Dressed in a green shirt with a name label Commander Alasdair "Al" Woodward CO of 820 Naval Air Squadron stands in front of a Merlin, like the aircraft which flew to Cyprus.

  15. A man filling up a silver car with petrol. The pump handle is green and he wearing blue jeans and a jumper.

  16. Smoke plumes billow from the site of airstrikes near Azadi Tower in western Tehran on 10 March. The night sky and smoke are black. Below, lights are on in buildings and a tower is lit up.

  17. A large fire burns at an oil depot in Iran at night. Flames and thick plumes of dark smoke tower over the outline of a small building.

  18. A BBC Verify map showing the location of attacks on Iran since the start of the conflict

  19. Members of the Lebanese Civil Defence inspect a damaged building after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon (9 March 2026)

  20. An employee - wearing shirt and trousers - checks empty commercial LPG cylinders inside Vidyarthi Bhavan restaurant in India's Bengaluru, as several restaurants and hotels in India have warned of shutdowns amid disruptions in commercial LPG supply, following the US-Israeli conflict with Iran.

  21. Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, wearing a grey suit, poses with the five Iranian football players who have been granted humanitarian visas. They are all smiling and wearing grey football jerseys.

  22. A satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, with a thin stream of dark blue water flowing around a sharp point of arid land jutting into it.

  23. A motorist refuels a vehicle with unleaded petrol at a Jet petrol station, a subsidiary of Phillips 66, in Brentford, north west of London.

  24. A photograph of a young man with dark hair, well lit in a dark room
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