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Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’  The Guardian

Day 17 of US-Israel war on Iran: Middle East tensions spread across region  Muslim Network TV

UK an 'active participant' in Israeli war crimes, Corbyn tribunal finds Britain was an active participant in some Israeli war crimes in Gaza, a tribunal chaired by Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and two international law specialists has found. The highly publicised Gaza Tribunal was held last September and its findings were published in a report on Monday. It was held after the Labour government blocked a bill put forward by former Labour leader Corbyn for a public Chilcot-style inquiry into Britain's military cooperation with Israel. UK was an 'active participant' in Israeli war crimes, Corbyn tribunal finds

Iran's health infrastructure is holding up, says WHO Iran's health system is holding up despite the evacuation of six hospitals across the country, a World Health Organisation official has told Reuters.  "The primary healthcare and the health infrastructure of Iran is quite good and robust, and they're able to accommodate the casualties as of now," WHO regional director Hanan Balkhy said. As the war enters its third week Iran's ambassador to the UN has said more than 1,300 people have been killed during the conflict with over 7,000 injured.  The WHO has also reported 18 attacks on healthcare facilities in the country with eight medics reported to have died.

US told Turkey war on Iran would end in just four days, expert says Ragip Soylu on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 13:05 Asli Aydintasbas, who has sources within Washington and Ankara, says US had believed it would quickly declare victory Iranians after crossing into Turkey at the Kapikoy Border Gate in the eastern Van province, Turkey, 3 March 2026 (Reuters/Dilara Senkaya) Off The United States government had told Turkey through official channels that the war on Iran would only take four days, Asli Aydintasbas, a Washington-based Turkey expert, said during an interview on Sunday. “Turkey and some of its allies were told, through official channels, that this operation would take days and be completed in four days,” Aydintasbas, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, said in an interview with the Serbestiyet news site. “You cannot tell a Nato ally that you have made a four-day plan and then extend the operation to 14 days. In a sense, this was also a betrayal of the regional countries.” Since January, Turkey tried hard to stop a joint Israeli and US attack on Iran, making several proposals to Washington and Tehran and trying to host mediation talks in Istanbul. However, Turkish officials said Iran did not want to accept the Turkish offers, including arranging a trilateral teleconference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); After several rounds of talks in Oman, with a much narrower scope focused on Iran’s nuclear programme, Washington and Israel launched strikes against Iran last month, unprovoked. Aydintasbas said that US and Israeli objectives on Iran were different, with Israel ideally preferring regime change in Iran, but if that was not possible, then an Iran that is fragmented and “Syrianised”. She added that Trump, on the other hand, sought a quick victory and a return to nuclear negotiations after extracting major concessions from Iran, at least expecting a Venezuela-like option in which regime officials cooperated with Washington. Aydintasbas said the Trump administration had not consulted any Iran experts in Washington and instead hoped for a quick turnover. “Every Iran expert I spoke to said the regime would not change through a military operation, that it would not change through air strikes,” she said. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “So, driven a bit by Israel’s encouragement and a bit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s urging, Trump wanted to carry out a hit-and-run move, and now he is stuck in an open-ended war.” She said that Washington had the idea that if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were overthrown or killed, the regime would collapse. “Trump began this process hoping to find a Delcy Rodriguez-type figure in Iran and strike a deal with the regime. Instead, what he has in front of him now is someone like Kim Jong-un,” she added, referring to the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who lost his wife and daughter in a strike along with his father. Kurdish half-plans Several reports earlier this month suggested that Trump was also planning to use Iranian and, to some extent, Iraqi Kurds to launch attacks on the border and establish control over some areas. Aydintasbas said this idea, too, was another indicator of how unserious the White House approach had been to launching a war on Iran, something that concerns the entire planet. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “I think everyone watching Trump from a distance is aware of this. It is very much a ‘we’ll build the plane while flying it’ style approach: let’s just start and see what happens. We will kill Khamenei quickly, then they will kneel, then they will come to a nuclear agreement, and I will announce a great success before the midterms,” she said. “But once Trump saw that regime change was not possible and that Iran was showing resistance even after Khamenei, he seems to have asked: ‘So what can we do?’” Iraq warns Kurdish authorities not to get drawn into war on Iran, sources say Read More » Aydintasbas said that once it was clear to everyone that regime change would not happen in a few days, the American civilian bureaucracy came up with several options, remembering the Kurds, whom Washington had often worked with after the Iraq War, the First Gulf War and in Syria. “Maybe Senator Lindsey Graham called and said, ‘Wait a minute, there are Kurds,’” she said. “With Trump saying on the phone, ‘Kurds, great, who should I call?’” Aydintasbas said she does not believe Trump has the patience or interest to understand that the Kurds are not a monolithic group. “Somehow this plan circulated for two to three days. But there was a major backlash, both in the media and from Turkey behind the scenes,” she said. “I think Turkey expressed serious objections through US envoy Thomas Barrack and through its own channels. And from what I heard, countries like Saudi Arabia also said, ‘Wait a minute, what are you doing? A civil war in Iran is a dangerous thing.’” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said earlier this month that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had denied bringing up a plan to use the Kurds in Iran. Trump initially appeared to encourage the idea, reportedly telling Kurdish leaders that they would have to “choose a side” in the conflict. However, he later appeared to backtrack. “I don't want the Kurds to go into Iran,” Trump told reporters last week.  “They’re willing to go in, but I’ve told them I don’t want them to go in. The war is complicated enough without getting the Kurds involved.” War on Iran Ankara News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Despite degraded launch capabilities, Iran has enough missiles to fire strategically, keep region on edge, say experts.

Israeli strike on prison was a war crime, UN concludes An Israeli air strike on a Iranian prison that killed more than 70 people in June 2025 was a war crime according to the UN official leading the investigation. Sara Hossain, chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, also told the UN Human Rights Council that the strike on Evin prison killed 80 people including one child and eight women. Her report on the attack, she said, "Israel committed the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against a civilian object". She added, as the war on Iran continues to rage, that "external military action does not provide accountability or bring meaningful change. Instead, it risks intensifying domestic repression".

Iranian authorities have arrested more than 500 people accused of helping facilitate strikes against Iran by sharing information with foreign intelligence agencies and media outlets.

President’s latest criticism of the media comes as his FCC chairman threatens to revoke broadcasters’ license for their coverage of the Iran war

Israeli strike kills nine officers and personnel, says Gaza health ministry An attack on Sunday by the Israeli military has led to the deaths of police officers and governorate personnel in the centre of Gaza. The attacks, which are being investigated by the Israeli army, was described by the interior ministry as a "heinous crime", adding that it "targeted a police vehicle carrying several officers and personnel in the central governorate". Another four people were reported to have been killed in earlier Israeli air strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp which the Israeli military says it is also investigating. The strikes have sparked condemnation as further examples of Israel's breaching the ceasefire agreed in October.

Israel’s Forever Wars  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Bay Area Iranian Americans weigh hope, fear as Iran war enters week three  Axios

Iran vowed at the United Nations on Monday that it would not submit to "lawless aggression", saying its citizens were in "grave danger" from US and Israeli strikes. At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where countries were discussing the rights situation in Iran -- notably following its deadly crackdown on protesters in recent months -- Tehran said the focus instead should be on the Middle East war.

Britain drawn closer to Iran war as a reluctant Starmer moves to appease Trump Imran Mulla on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:51 The British prime minister is reportedly planning to send minesweeping drones to the Strait of Hormuz Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media on the situation in the Middle East, at Downing Street in central London on 16 March (AFP) Off British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday the UK is working on a "viable plan" to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after speaking to US President Donald Trump. His comments come after Trump threatened on Sunday night that Nato faces a "very bad" future if its member states fail to help America in opening up the crucial waterway, through which a fifth of the world's oil passes - and which Iran has effectively shut in response to the US-Israeli war on the country. The president had appealed on Saturday to Britain, China, France, Japan and South Korea to join a "team effort" to open up Hormuz. This has led to the latest in a series of difficult decisions for the British prime minister, who has sought to avoid active involvement in a war that is opposed by most of the British public. But the UK has nevertheless become embroiled in the conflict, allowing the US to use British military bases for bombers en route to targeting Iranian missile sites. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Starmer said in an address from Downing Street on Monday morning that the Strait of Hormuz must be reopened to "ensure stability in the markets", adding "that is not a simple task". He said the UK was working with "all of our allies" on a "viable plan" to reopen the choke point. Starmer added that the US-Israeli attack on Iran has "massively weakened" the military capability of the "abhorrent regime in Iran", but said there will need to be a "negotiated agreement" with the country to limit its ability to rebuild its nuclear programme and safeguard international shipping. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said on Sunday that the government is considering sending minesweeping drones rather than warships to Hormuz. Minesweeping drones trick mines into detonating safely by flying in a pattern that makes them appear to be ships. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 'A very transactional presidency' Relations with the US have been strained over Britain’s initial refusal, when the war began, to allow the Americans to use the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to launch strikes on Iran. Whitehall sources told Middle East Eye that the Starmer government believes the US-Israeli attack has no lawful basis and joining would be against Britain's national interest. Trump said in an interview on Sunday night, after speaking to Starmer: "The UK might be considered the number one ally, the longest serving et cetera and [at the start of the war] when I asked for them to come, they didn’t want to come. Iranian leaders taunt ‘US Epstein class’ during war Read More » "And as soon as we basically wiped out the danger capacity from Iran, they said, "oh well we’ll send two ships", and I said, "We need these ships before we win, not after we win." I’ve long said that Nato is a one-way street." On Monday morning, Pat McFadden, the British work and pensions secretary, responded to Trump's comments by saying the UK was not obliged to agree to all of the US president's requests. "It’s a very transactional presidency, and our job is to navigate this, to always remember that the friendship between the United States and the United Kingdom runs very deep," McFadden said. "It’s a good relationship. It’s enduring, and I think it will outlast all the personalities involved." McFadden insisted that "we’ve not sought to be a protagonist in this" war.  In another interview on Monday, McFadden insisted that the current conflict was "not a Nato war" but a "US-Israeli action". Nato was founded by the US, Britain and ten other countries in 1949, with one of its key conditions being that an attack on one country should be treated as an attack on all.  McFadden said the alliance was not created for the "kind of situation that we're seeing in the Middle East". (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Over the past two weeks, numerous US B-1 Lancer bombers have taken off from the Fairford Royal Air Force base in Gloucestershire in southern England to carry out strikes on Iran. Last Friday, a base in northern Iraq used by British troops was attacked by Iranian drones, wounding a number of American soldiers.  Starmer said on Monday morning that his priority is to work to "de-escalate" the war. But as events escalate and Trump's demands continue, Britain is finding itself drawn deeper into the conflict. UK Politics News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Relative of US airman killed in Middle East crash calls war on Iran ‘uncalled for’  The Guardian

Nick Butler, who was a former adviser to Gordon Brown when he was prime minister, said ministers should be preparing now for a ‘significant shortfall of supply over the next two months’

Qatar says diplomacy with Iran possible 'if they stop the attacks' Diplomatic talks with Iran are only possible if it ceases its attacks, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, as Tehran presses its missile and drone campaign against Gulf states. "If they stop the attacks, then we can find a way out with diplomacy. But as long as our countries are being attacked, this is not the time to establish committees, it's the time to take a very principled position (on) protecting our countries and for them to stop attacking us immediately," Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said.