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Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel ‘betrayed’ over Iran war  CNN

Israeli strikes kill 6 in southern Lebanon refugee camp At least six people were killed and several others wounded in Israeli air raids on the Burj al-Shamali camp in southern Lebanon, the country’s National News Agency reported. Two more people were killed in a separate strike on the town of Deir Antar, according to the report.

Europe faces stiff competition with Asia for energy supplies as Russia profits.

Trump’s New Cyber-First War Strategy  Foreign Policy

US and Israel: Apparent War Crimes in Iran and Lebanon Demand Action  dawnmena.org

Trump says Iran war to end ‘soon’ as Israel claims no time limit  Al Jazeera

Republicans are heading towards an election season led by a president who just launched an unpopular war in the Middle East that is raising gas prices, writes John Bowden. Sound familiar?

The war in Iran could plunge the world into hunger  grist.org

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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school  NPR

Trump deflects questions on Iranian school strike US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was not aware of the strike on a school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children. Members of the administration have stated that an investigation is underway and declined to comment further, Al Jazeera reported.  US media reports citing officials familiar with the preliminary findings say the military investigation has determined that the United States carried out the strike during the US-Israeli war on Iran. Trump had earlier suggested the school may have been hit by an Iranian missile, a claim military analysts quickly dismissed. Administration officials have since attempted to distance themselves from that explanation.

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Pete Hegseth brings combative style as face of Trump's war in Iran  BBC

Survivors describe ‘smoke and fire and crazy and chaos’ in aftermath of drone strike on Kuwait port facility

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - Nearly every U.S. Senate Democrat signed a letter sent to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday requesting a "swift investigation" of airstrikes on a girls' school in Iran that killed scores of children and any other potential U.S. military actions causing civilian harm. Reuters reported on March 5 that U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for the strike on the school on February 28, as U.S. and Israeli forces launched attacks on Iran.

Lack of public appearances prompted speculation about new leader’s mortality after multiple family members perished The confirmation that Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was injured in the first wave of Israeli attacks underlines how desperate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (ICRG) was to ensure their wounded choice was elevated to high office, and how confident it is that the wartime machinery can operate almost on automatic pilot without him. The full scale of Khamenei’s injuries and speed of his recovery remain unclear, but a broken leg and facial injuries are the minimum. It is not a medical bulletin on which the authorities are seeking to dwell, although Ali Larijani, the secretary of the supreme national security council, chose his words carefully in saying “his condition has not been reported as critical”, a phrasing that suggests he has not personally seen him. Continue reading...

Will the Iran War Be Netanyahu’s Undoing?  The Atlantic

Iranian officials warn of a long ‘war of attrition’ and global economic chaos as energy supplies from the region are throttled Iran dramatically escalated its strategy of striking civilian infrastructure and transport networks across the Gulf on Wednesday, attacking commercial ships travelling through the Gulf and targeting Dubai’s international airport, as US and Israeli warplanes launched new waves of strikes on the Islamic Republic. Senior Iranian officials struck a defiant tone, warning of a long “war of attrition” that will threaten global economic chaos as energy supplies from the oil and gas rich region are throttled. Continue reading...

Trump's approval rating low as Iran war continues: See numbers  The Providence Journal

Why hasn’t the US learned the lessons of two Gulf wars? Plus Iran’s supreme statement of defiance Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address When news breaks that dominates the agenda to the extent of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, one challenge for the Guardian Weekly team is how to keep the magazine’s covers feeling fresh, week after week, while remaining focused on the same story. For this week’s edition, in response to Patrick Wintour’s must-read essay on how the US has ignored the lessons of two previous Gulf wars, we asked illustrator Doug Chayka to play with the idea of a Middle East that the US either cannot, or refuses to, see. Doug’s artwork neatly captures the dilemma of a Trump administration that now finds its Iran exit strategy – assuming there was one – cut off by chaos. Continue reading...