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Trump news at a glance: president says Iran’s Kharg Island ‘demolished’ and threatens more strikes ‘just for fun’  The Guardian

A Hamas source said an Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Sunday killed an official from the Palestinian militant group as Hezbollah said it fired an "advanced missile" at an air base near Tel Aviv. Israel said no direct talks were planned with Lebanon to end the latest war which has been raging for two weeks. The statement came a day after a Lebanese official said Beirut was preparing a delegation to negotiate with Israel.

Israel launched a fresh strike on Beirut's southern suburbs late Sunday as Israel's military said it was striking Hezbollah infrastructure in the city following earlier raids mainly in the country's south. The midnight strike, heard by AFP correspondents in the capital, came after a morning Israel army evacuation warning for Beirut's southern suburbs, which Israel has repeatedly struck in the past fortnight. Shortly after the raid, the Israeli military said on social media that it was "currently striking Hezbollah terror infrastructure in Beirut".

Trump floated the idea of Kurdish militias going on the offensive to help defeat the Islamic Republic, but the reality on the ground limits the role they can likely play in Tehran's collapse The post Small, divided and wary, Kurdish rebels won’t be the ones bringing down Iran’s regime appeared first on The Times of Israel.

CCTV footage released by Israeli police shows the moment an Iranian missile struck a street in Tel Aviv.

IDF says Iran war to last for at least 3 more weeks; army denies interceptor shortage  ynetnews

What a Difference 12 Days Make: Why This War With Iran Is Different  Haaretz

SWAT teams, bomb squads and snipers among some 1,000 law enforcement personnel tasked to secure event; FBI reportedly warned Iran might hit unspecified targets in California The post Academy Awards beefs up security after reported Iranian drone threat to Los Angeles appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Gulf Arab states intercept new missiles and drones as Iran threatens to widen war  Politico

Trump asserts Iran wants to end war. Tehran says no proposal  Yahoo Finance

Ben Shapiro: Three big lies about the Iran war  Grand Forks Herald

Adam Schiff says war with Iran is ‘simply unsustainable’: Full interview  NBC News

So I've been going down a rabbit hole on the Prince Sultan Air Base strike and something keeps bothering me that I haven't seen discussed anywhere properly. Everyone's focused on the number. Five tankers. Seven total in a week. And yes, that's significant. But the number isn't the story. The story is the 11 days before it. Those planes were sitting on that Saudi tarmac since before the operation started. Satellite-visible. Location confirmed. Iran knew exactly where they were from Day 1. And for 11 straight days of Operation Epic Fury — while bombs were falling on Iranian territory daily — those KC-135s were not touched. Then Day 14. Five hit simultaneously. No warning. I keep asking myself — why wait? If you have the capability and you know the target, why 11 days of patience first? And when I actually looked at the sequence of what was hit and in what order — Day 1, Day 13, Day 14 — it stopped looking like escalation and started looking like something else entirely. There's also something about the KC-46 replacement program that almost nobody in mainstream coverage is connecting to this. The public GAO reports on it are genuinely eye-opening in this context. I don't want to dump the whole thing here because it's a long read and honestly it's the kind of thing where the sequence matters — you need to follow the logic step by step for it to land properly. I put together a full breakdown on YouTube if anyone wants the complete picture. Not trying to push anything, just genuinely think this angle deserves more attention than it's getting. What's your read on the 11-day gap? Deliberate strategy or am I reading too much into the timing? submitted by /u/Think_Anything_6116 to r/MiddleEastNews [link] [comments]

Exclusive / Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say  Semafor

The Iran war is a new test of America's economic superpower  Axios

Ukraine's anti-drone tech is in high demand as Iran attacks its neighbors  NBC News

From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high There is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire into the darkness, on the theory that an invisible threat might be lurking. It’s violence licensed by blindness. Shoot into the darkness and call it deterrence. With the dawn of AI warfare, that same logic of chosen blindness has been refined, systematized, and handed off to a machine. Continue reading...

Tehran wants ceasefire but terms ‘not good enough yet’, US president claims, as both sides launch new waves of strikes Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has warned he is not ready to seek a deal to end the US-Israeli offensive against Iran, saying that though he thought Tehran was keen to negotiate a ceasefire, the US would fight on for better terms. Trump’s comments came as Iran launched new missile and drone attacks on countries in the Gulf and on Israel, and Israeli and US warplanes launched new waves of strikes on Iran. Continue reading...

Gulf states intercept new missiles, drones as Iran threatens to widen war  CBC

Health reporter Diana Bletter on hospitals' wartime emergency preparedness and what it's like to live in -- and report from -- the north under constant Iranian and Hezbollah attacks The post Daily Briefing March 15 — ToI reporter on life under Hezbollah’s rain of missiles appeared first on The Times of Israel.