PERSIAN GULF REGION — Iran has launched daily missile and drone strikes against Gulf states and Israel since February 28, targeting military bases, oil and gas sites, civilian airports, hotels and ports. The strikes have killed at least 11 civilians and injured at least 268 others in Gulf states as of March 16, based on a tally by Human Rights Watch using information from Gulf states.

The U.S.-Israeli air campaign has destroyed homes and killed more than 1,900 people in Tehran and other Iranian cities, according to Iran's deputy health minister. U.S. and Israeli officials and commanders say the campaign is designed to decimate Iran's missile and drone programs.

Iran launches dozens of ballistic missiles and drones across the region on a daily basis, though the number of projectiles Iran fires has declined markedly since the first few days of the conflict. In the opening days of the war, Iran fired dozens of ballistic missiles at its neighbors. On the third day of the war, the number of missiles launched by Iran dropped sharply. Iran typically fires fewer than 25 missiles a day at Gulf states in recent days.

Iran has kept up a steady rate of drone attacks, targeting Gulf states with an average of roughly 120 drone attacks per day since the war's start. In recent weeks, Iran has launched an average of about 80 drone attacks a day at its neighbors.

The Israeli military said 70% of Iran's missile launchers were disabled by the 16th day of the war. The Pentagon says it has degraded about 90% of Iran's ballistic missile and drone capabilities. Tom Karako, Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said "The challenge is it's probably relatively easy to hide these things, and so finding all of them, bombing all of them, is going to be hard." Karako said "It comes down to how good is the intelligence, ours and the Israelis', in terms of where everything is."

Iran has launched drone and missile strikes on oil fields, refineries, liquefied natural gas facilities and ports in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE and Iraq. On March 18, an Iranian missile strike on Qatar's natural gas facilities knocked out 17% of the country's liquefied natural gas export capacity. That loss of capacity was estimated to cost Qatar $20 billion in lost revenue.

Earlier in March, Iran launched two missiles at the joint U.K.-U.S. Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, covering a distance of over 2,000 miles. Tehran had previously stated it had chosen not to develop missiles with ranges beyond 1,250 miles.

In the first 11 days of the war, the United Arab Emirates intercepted 92% of ballistic missiles and nearly 94% of drones fired by Iran, according to the UAE's defense ministry. Since February 28, all missiles fired at Kuwait by Iran were either destroyed or fell far from any potential target, according to Kuwait's government. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, International spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, said "Iran has fired around 400 missiles at Israel since the start of the war." At least 18 Israeli civilians have been killed and thousands wounded by Iranian attacks, according to Israeli authorities.

On Sunday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Parliament speaker, warned the United States against a ground invasion, threatening to set American troops "on fire" and step up attacks on U.S. allies, according to Iranian official media. Ghalibaf said "Our men are waiting for American soldiers to enter on the ground so they can set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever." according to IRNA and Tasnim.

Ghalibaf said "As long as the Americans seek Iran's surrender, our response is clear: Far be it from us to accept humiliation." according to Iranian official media. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to target branches of Israeli and American educational facilities in the region if the U.S. does not condemn bombing of Iranian universities, according to state media. The Guard said "If the U.S. government wants its universities in the region spared, it should condemn the bombardment of (Iranian) universities by 12 o'clock Monday, March 30, in an official statement."