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MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday condemned what it called "the murder" of Iran's leaders in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, a day after Iran's semi-official Fars news agency confirmed that Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been killed in Tehran.

The Kent warning: When truth escapes the war machine  Al Jazeera

Trump and his allies use familiar tactic to help Iran war messaging: attacking the press  Reuters

Two people were reported killed after a barrage of Iranian missiles hit Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, on Wednesday. Israel and the US launched attacks on Iran last month, which have prompted a war that quickly spread across the Middle East. The war has killed at least 1,300 people in Iran, more than 900 in Lebanon and 14 in Israel, according to officials in the countries Middle East crisis – live updates Continue reading...

US senators to grill Trump intelligence team, weeks into Iran war  Reuters

Tehran residents try to stay safe from bombing and cling to their livelihoods as war stretches into third week Up to 3.2 million people have been temporarily displaced in Iran since the start of the US-Israeli military campaign, the UN’s refugee agency estimates, a figure that is likely to rise as the war stretches into a third week. A burning oil depot in the distance after an airstrike, 8 March. Continue reading...

The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil  The New Yorker

Director of National Intelligence to appear before Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday to defend a conflict she has long warned against

Israeli war on Lebanon killing or wounding 30 children each day The Israeli war on Lebanon is killing or wounding the equivalent of an entire classroom of children every day, a senior Unicef official said. Lebanon’s health ministry has reported that Israeli strikes have killed at least 111 children and wounded 334 since 2 March, when Israel expanded its attacks on Lebanon. The toll averages nearly 30 children killed or injured each day. "That's a classroom of children every day since the beginning of the war that's either killed or injured in Lebanon," Unicef Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban said in an interview  with Reuters on Tuesday. Israeli attacks have killed more than 900 people in Lebanon since 2 March, Lebanese data shows, while sweeping evacuation orders have forced over one million people from their homes. Among them are roughly 350,000 children.

The mother of a four-year-old Iranian girl in a coma has sent a message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu after a US-Israeli air campaign destroyed their home.

Does Mississippi like Trump after Iran war? Here are his approval ratings  The Clarion-Ledger

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has expressed his thanks to the government and people of Afghanistan for condemning the US-Israeli attacks waged against Iran.

STOCKHOLM, March 18 (Reuters) - Russia, China and Iran are the biggest threats to Sweden, the Swedish Security Service (SAPO) said on Wednesday in its annual report on threats facing the country. The security police has warned in recent years of rising threats, above all from a Russian state increasingly prone to risky ventures in support of its war in Ukraine, including through destabilising hybrid attacks around Europe.

Minnesota farmers see a ‘balancing act’ navigating effects of Iran war  MPR News

Israel says it killed another Iranian leader, but that doesn't mean it's winning the war  NBC News

Opinion | Behind Trump's Iran War Is A Saudi 'Equation' Few Can See  NDTV

Several central neighbourhoods in Beirut have been attacked in a series of Israeli strikes.

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – Iran's Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei has said that the silly president of the US is imploring other countries to deploy naval ships to Hormuz Strait.

Widespread damage was left across areas near Tel Aviv after overnight Iranian missile strikes.

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – The chief commander of Iran Army Force has said that the cowardly Israeli assassination in martyring Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani will be ‘regretful’.