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War, and more war. Israelis support defeating Iran, but they are exhausted.  The Christian Science Monitor

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Commander of Iran's paramilitary Basij force killed, Iranian state media says Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of Iran's paramilitary Basij force, was killed in US-Israel attacks, Iran's state media said on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Israel had said it killed Soleimani.

BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Rocket and drone attacks on the U.S. embassy and a diplomatic facility in Iraq resumed on Tuesday after a series of earlier strikes the same day, security sources said. Rockets and an explosive drone targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, triggering sirens and an explosion was heard near the compound, security sources said. At least three explosive drones also targeted a U.S. diplomatic facility near Baghdad International Airport, activating C-RAM air defence systems, the sources added.

Iran war, oil price surge worsen K-shaped economy, say economists  CNBC

Zelenskyy and Starmer urge continuing support for Ukraine against Russia as Iran war steals focus  The Hill

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Israel claims it has killed the influential Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani in overnight strikes. If confirmed, Larijani’s death would represent a devastating blow to the regime, and the most senior official to die since Ali Khamenei’s death. Lucy Hough speaks to deputy head of international news, Devika Bhat. Continue reading...

Unrealistic to expect controlled regime change in Iran, Germany says Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Tuesday said it was not realistic to expect controlled regime change in Iran and said the war could not have a military solution. "There will be no military solution. And to have a controlled regime change, is, I would say, a hypothetical idea, which is not realistic," he said, speaking alongside his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot in Berlin at an event hosted by the ZEIT media group. "So chaos in Iran, as bad as the regime is, is also not in our interest and not in the interest of the region and, of course, in the interest of the people living in Iran."

Iran war pushes Asian nations into energy triage as they conserve power  PBS

Thousands of seafarers face dwindling supplies of fuel and water as they wait on board, stranded by the Middle East war, a key shipping body warned Tuesday as it urged governments to help get maritime traffic flowing again. John Stawpert is marine director of the London-based International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents the world's national shipowner associations and over 80 percent of the world merchant fleet.

Focus must remain on Ukraine despite Iran war, PM says  BBC

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Graeme Biggar said the Middle East conflict could drive more arrivals as he issued his annual assessment of threats facing Britain – including soaring drugs deaths

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trumpon Tuesday said he was postponing a highly anticipated trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the war with Iran upends U.S. foreign policy and delays an effort to ease tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. "We are resetting the meeting ... We're working with China. They were fine with it," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - The British government on Tuesday opened an inquiry into how details of a top-secret national security meeting to discuss a U.S. request to use British military bases at the start of the Iran conflict were leaked to a journalist. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer initially blocked the U.S. from using the air base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and RAF Fairford in England, before later allowing the U.S. to use the bases for "defensive" strikes against Iranian targets.

As bombs fall and millions are displaced, protests grow in Iran. Could this war be strengthening Iran’s resolve?