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No longer safe: Iran war puts 9 million Indian workers in the line of fire  South China Morning Post

Nicholas Noe says Israel’s strategy in Lebanon appears to be aimed at targeting civilian infrastructure.

Infant among six family members killed in US-Israeli strike in western Iran Six members of the same family, including a six-month-old baby, were killed in a US-Israeli strike on a residential building in Eyvan city in western Iran’s Ilam province, local media reported. A local official said rescue workers were still at the scene clearing rubble from the building after the attack.

TEHRAN, Mar. 14 MNA) – After targeting the US Embassy in Baghdad, the news sources have said that the radar and air defense system of the embassy were completely destroyed.

Skyrocketing energy prices and inflation woes mount as the ‘absurd’ reality in Iran sinks in  Fortune

Shocking Truth About Trump’s Senseless War Revealed  The Daily Beast

These are the casualties and cost of the war in Iran 2 weeks into the conflict  Georgia Public Broadcasting

TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) – The Army Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran has downed the seven drones of the enemy over the past 48 hours.

Even as the first western journalist to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, I had no inkling of what was to come. Perhaps we should have learned from history Watching Iran in flames, I can’t help wondering whether history is coming a grotesque full circle 47 years after the fall of the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty, or whether western powers are simply repeating past errors by attempting violent regime change from outside. As a young reporter, I had a ringside seat for part of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and installed an austere Islamic republic headed by a Shia Muslim cleric with the titles of “leader of the revolution” and “guardian jurist” (vali-e faqih). Continue reading...

Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.

Trump’s Frustration Over the Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz  WANA News Agency

Tehran threatens to reduce US-linked oil facilities to 'pile of ashes' if oil structures on the island are targeted.

TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) – Iranian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Ali Mousavi has said that the outbreak of tension in the Strait of Hormuz is the result of the illegal US-Israeli aggression waged against Iran.

In war on Iran, what sets Israel apart from the US: Tel Aviv knows what it wants — Washington does not  The Indian Express

IRGC says strikes destroyed Israeli northern command infrastructure Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saturday said it achieved the strategic goals of the 45th phase of “Operation True Promise 4,” claiming strikes destroyed Israel’s northern command infrastructure and targeted a gathering place of American forces. The IRGC said the operation was carried out jointly with the Iranian army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. “In this operation, precision-guided solid-fuel Kheybar Shekan missiles and large numbers of offensive drones were effectively launched at enemy targets,” the statement said.

After two weeks: What's next in the US-Israel-Iran conflict?  news.cgtn.com

Iran army chief says Dena sailors’ killings 'will not go unanswered' Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army Major General Amir Hatami on Saturday said the killing of 104 crew members from Dena destroyer "will not go unanswered", state media reported. ​"The army will defend Iran’s maritime borders and strengthen its naval power with even greater determination," Hatmi was quoted by IRNA as saying.  The crew of Iran's Dena destroyer ship were targeted while on their way back to Iran in the Indian Ocean, near Sri Lanka, when it was attacked by US forces.

TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) – A spokesperson of Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters has said that if the oil and energy infrastructures of the country are damaged, Iran will strike oil and energy infrastructures in the region that US benefits it.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes since Israel issued mass evacuation orders and ramped up its airstrikes on the militant group Hezbollah

Firing Peter Mandelson, convening with Marco Rubio – then handling the fallout of conflict in the Middle East… it’s been a busy time for the secretary of state, and our writer has had a ringside seat Before Yvette Cooper joins me in a plush side room at the Foreign Office, an aide comes in and draws the heavy curtains. Outside is Horse Guards Parade. I can see a strip of Downing Street, a patch of the No 10 garden, daffodils in bloom. I say that it’s a shame to block the light on such a beautiful spring afternoon. The aide coughs, embarrassed, and explains that it’s actually for security. So that people can’t see in? Continue reading...