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A resident in Tehran has provided a rare dispatch from inside the Iranian capital, describing a city that is strangely busy despite the ongoing crisis.

"People are coming out and talking to each other," they said. "It's not like they are moving through the city with a lot of fear. They are simply living their lives."

While that previous conflict drove many into hiding, the resident says shops are currently open and people are out in the streets, seemingly "waiting for something to happen" in the wake of the supreme leader's death.

Yazdanmehr said he left Iran in 1979, during the Iranian revolution. He acknowledged that as an Iranian living abroad in the past several decades, it's difficult to weigh in on the matter as someone in the diaspora, when it largely affects those who have lived under the Islamic republic's regime.

He added that Iranians have long fought for freedom of speech, movement and choice, which they have been denied under the "brutal" regime that has "ruled with an iron fist." 

"I don't know if this help that has come, is the right way of dealing with it, but we'll just have to wait and see what happens."

Family in Tehran has 'no sleep, no rest, all worries': Iranian Canadian

The Iranian Red Cross says nearly 800 people have died in Iran since the U.S. And Israel launched strikes on the country on Saturday. Shahram Yazdanmehr left Iran in 1979 but still has family in Tehran. Yazdanmehr says Iranians needed help against the regime but it's unclear if this is the kind they needed.

Shahram Yazdanmehr, an Iranian Canadian, said he finally heard from his niece yesterday after several days being unable to reach his family in Tehran due to internet blackouts.

Yazdanmehr, who lives in Alberta, said his niece could only tell him that their family members were safe and continuing to shelter at home.

"There's no sleep. There's no rest. It's all worries." 

The number of Canadian citizens and permanent residents in the Middle East who have registered with Global Affairs Canada has jumped to more than 97,000, according to the federal department. That's an increase of 12,000 from the 85,000 registered as of Sunday . 

"At this time, we are not aware of any Canadians who have been injured or killed because of the hostilities," GAC said in a statement this morning.

The breakdown by region, as of March 2, is: 

Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are holding a bilateral meeting at the White House at 11 a.m. ET today.

Merz is the ⁠first world leader to visit Washington ⁠since the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran began, widening the Middle East conflict which has blocked one ‌of the world's key oil shipping lanes and thrown global air transport into chaos.

Trump could speak on the latest developments in the war against Iran. You can watch in the video above.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) released a statement today urging countries to abide by the Olympic Truce — a treaty that calls on all member nations to cease hostilities from the seventh day before the Olympic games until seven days afterward.

The truce is a "hallowed principle" of the Olympic Games, according to the UN, so the athletes can travel safely.

The Milano Cortina Olympics ended on Feb. 22, and the Paralympics start this Friday. The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began last Saturday, right in the middle of the two Games.

“In a world shaken by conflict, division and tragedy, with lives being lost and tragedies experienced by so many, now more than ever, the IOC stands firm in its belief that sport must remain a beacon of hope – a force that brings the whole world together in peaceful competition,” the IOC wrote in this statement.

"We therefore appeal to all UN Member States to support athletes who have qualified for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics, and who may be affected by the most recent conflicts, in their journey to these Games."

While the IOC notes that the truce is “aspirational and non-binding," breaking it can have consequences. The IOC condemned Russia when it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine four days after the Beijing Winter Olympics wrapped up in 2022. 

They allowed just 20 athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete in the 2026 Games, after they were vetted by a panel tasked with ensuring they didn't make any public statements supporting the war and that they aren't connected to state security or military agencies. 

As disrupted access to the Strait of Hormuz continues to weigh on the global oil trade, Brent Crude, the international benchmark, has inched up to $83 US a barrel. That's the highest it's been since July 2024, according to market intelligence platform Trading Economics. West Texas Intermediate crude was trading at $77 US a barrel around 9:45 a.m. ET.

Likewise, gas prices are also ticking up. According to data from Gas Buddy, the average retail price of gas in Canada hovered around $1.36 per litre on Tuesday morning.

Canadian Italian student in Abu Dhabi describes running to bridge during missile alert

Tancredi Rapone, a Canadian Italian PhD student in Abu Dhabi, described his experience as Iran continues missile and drone strikes on some Gulf states. Rapone, who is trying to decide what to do as the fighting flares, showed a basement area where some people were sleeping as worry over future strikes continued.

Italian Canadian Tancredi Rapone, a visiting PhD student at NYU Abu Dhabi, says he woke up Saturday to news that the U.S. And Israel were striking Iran. By early afternoon, he and other students and faculty were sheltering in the basement under a campus-wide order to stay in place.

"When we started getting alerts on the phone on Saturday afternoon, that's when people started to get really freaked out," he said.

Soon after, he began hearing blasts as missiles were intercepted overhead. The pace intensified Sunday afternoon while he was grocery shopping. He says another government alert warned of incoming projectiles and he took cover under a bridge.

When he made it to the store, he could see smoke rising from a nearby French naval base that had been hit, followed by more explosions as drones were shot down.

His 2 p.m. Flight today was cancelled after debris from an overnight interception shattered glass in Abu Dhabi around 3 a.m.

"You can definitely hear them when they shoot them down," he said.

Rapone tried booking a bus to Riyadh, without success. He's now weighing an improvised route out with an Egyptian tour company.

"If you want to have a two-week vacation across the Middle East on your way to Cairo that's also an option," he said. “If worse comes to worst, you may as well make the best out of it."

With the conflict still in its earliest days, a pair of polls suggest Trump still has plenty of work to do to sell the conflict to the American people. 

A poll for Reuters conducted by polling firm Ipsos found just 27 per cent of Americans who responded said they approved of the strikes on Iran. Meanwhile, 43 per cent said they disapproved and the rest were not sure. The online poll was conducted Saturday and Sunday with 1,282 U.S. Adults from a nationally representative panel. 

A poll for CNN conducted by polling firm SSRS found 41 per cent of respondents approved of the decision to take military action against Iran, while 59 per cent disapproved. The poll was conducted via text message with 1,004 adults from a nationally representative panel.

The war comes with Trump's overall approval rating slumping, as November's crucial midterm elections that will determine control of Congress creep closer. You can read more here.

The military base, RAF Akrotiri, on the Mediterranean island is British sovereign territory. 

Suspected Iranian drones targeted the base late Sunday and Monday; one drone reportedly hit the runway and caused limited damage. 

If the decision is made to deploy a British warship, it would help bolster defence capabilities on the island. 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's official spokesperson says the U.K. Has deployed "a significant level of defence capability" to Cyprus.  

The families of British military personnel have already been relocated from the RAF base. 

Greece has committed to sending two warships and two fighter jets. France says it is sending anti-drone and anti-missile systems to the island.  

It is not known where the drone attacks aimed at the British military base were launched from, but there are suggestions they may have come from Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. 

Starmer has stated that the U.S. Is not using the base to launch attacks on Iran. He has given permission for U.S. Jets to use two other British military bases, one in England and the other on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, but only for defensive action against Iranian missile sites. 

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