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TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has emphasized the firm determination of government, people and Armed Forces of the country to exercise the legitimate right of self-defense against aggressors.

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Amirhossein Miresmaeili speaks to people in Tehran who endure internet blackouts and military strikes from fighter jets as they say their greatest fear is the regime surviving the conflict

Four American crew dead after refuelling aircraft crashes in Iraq, US military says Four US crew members were killed when an American KC-135 aerial refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, the US military said on Friday, adding that the incident was not caused by "hostile fire or friendly fire". "Four of six crew members on board the aircraft have been confirmed deceased as rescue efforts continue," US Central Command, which is responsible for American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement on X. An investigation was under way into Thursday's crash, it added. "However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire," it said. Four Confirmed Deceased in Loss of U.S. KC-135 Over Iraq March 13, 2026

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4 confirmed dead after U.S. military aircraft goes down in Iraq  NPR

U.S. military bombs Iran's main oil export hub, as Mideast war toll mounts  NPR

Congress can use War Powers Act to end war in Iran | Letter  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Why the Iran war hurts Trump’s plans to expand LNG  E&E News by POLITICO

The Dangers of a Long War with Iran  Time Magazine

Turkey says NATO defences intercepted third missile from Iran, asks Tehran to clarify Turkey's defence ministry said on Friday that NATO air defences stationed in the eastern Mediterranean had intercepted a third ballistic missile fired from Iran toward Turkey, adding that it was asking Iran for an explanation.

Casualties from downing of U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft take total number of American fatalities in Operation Epic Fury so far to 11

US-Israel-Iran War Live: Blast near protest rally in Tehran; Trump claims Iran about to surrender  India Today

Israel's ICJ genocide defense brief likely delayed by war  The Jerusalem Post

U.S. auto sales could plunge on war in Iran, historical data shows  Detroit Free Press

Anti-Muslim bias in British media is off the charts. Will anyone step in? Faisal Hanif on Wed, 03/11/2026 - 23:04 In a study examining more than 40,000 articles, a stunning 70 percent framed Islam or its practitioners in a negative light GB News ranked among the worst across every bias indicator, according to a new study from the Centre for Media Monitoring (Screenshot/GB News) Off Let us dispense with the polite fiction that British journalism treats Muslims fairly. It does not. And the data, now more comprehensive than ever before, proves it beyond any reasonable doubt. The Centre for Media Monitoring has just published the findings of the most rigorous analysis of Muslim representation in the British media ever undertaken. The study examined 40,913 articles across 30 major news outlets - an entire year of coverage dissected, coded and measured against five clear indicators of bias.  The conclusion is damning: nearly half of all British media coverage of Muslims in 2025 was biased. Half: this does not point to fringe outliers, but rather a systemic problem. Seventy percent of all articles analysed associated Muslims or Islam with negative themes or behaviours. And here is the methodological point that makes this figure even harder to dismiss: the study did not restrict itself to articles where Muslims were the central subject.  A singular, passing mention was sufficient to enter the dataset. By that measure, the methodology was generous, even lenient. And yet nearly half still came back biased. The 50 percent figure might be a floor, not a ceiling. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Now place that alongside the historical record. Five years ago, the centre published an assessment of more than 48,000 articles published during a 12-month period spanning 2018-19 using the same parameters. The negative framing rate was then around 60 percent; it has now reached 70 percent. This is not a marginal drift, but structural deterioration.  Coverage of Muslims has not just become more hostile. It has become more obsessive. The British media is producing articles about Muslims with greater contempt than ever before. Commentator Peter Oborne was not being hyperbolic when he said it is getting worse - much worse. The data confirms it. Distorted terminology  The right-wing media is no longer reporting on Muslims. It is campaigning against them.  There is a difference between covering a community and targeting it; between scrutinising a religion and weaponising it. The outlets at the core of this crisis have made their choice: the Spectator, GB News, the Daily Telegraph, the Jewish Chronicle, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and the Times.  These are not peripheral voices. These are the institutions that set the agenda. And they are, by the evidence of this report, systematically hostile towards British Muslims. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Look at the language. The report’s analysis of distorted terminology reads like a lexicon assembled by people who want Muslims gone: gangs of Muslim men, murderous ideology, hate march, death cult, Islamist Jew-haters, overthrowing modernity, rampaging.  The right-wing media is no longer reporting on Muslims. It is campaigning against them These are not descriptors. They are weapons. GB News, despite its recent launch, ranked among the worst across every bias indicator. One headline from 2025 captures the editorial culture perfectly: “Let me be impolite: Muslims are racist against Jews”. The writer’s contempt is framed as courage. When bigotry is marketed as bravery, you are no longer in journalism. You are in incitement. The Spectator recorded the highest concentration of severe bias, with more than one in four of its articles classified as “very biased”. This is not a publication that occasionally stumbles into prejudice; it is one for which anti-Muslim hostility appears consistently.  The Spectator also published a piece expressing apparent bewilderment that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would wish people Eid Mubarak. That a British leader acknowledging one of the most widely observed religious occasions in this country is treated as something requiring explanation, tells you everything you need to know about the terms on which Muslim presence in public life is still being contested. And the campaign has not paused for the new year. Into 2026 it continues, with Muslim democratic participation now in the crosshairs. The framing of Muslim voters exercising their rights as sectarian voting, as family voting blocs, as something suspect and coordinated, is the latest addition to the Islamophobic lexicon.  When a Muslim person votes, it is bloc voting. When a Muslim community organises, it is a threat to democracy. These are the terms of those who campaign against Muslims in print - and of those who, stripped of pretence, simply wish we were not here at all. 'Dangerous and poisonous' One finding implicates everyone, not just the right-wing media. Contextual omission, the failure to provide information that would allow a reader to understand a story properly, was found in 44 percent of biased articles. It is the single most prevalent media failure in the entire dataset. And it does not require malice.  Cover a story about extremism without contextualising the infinitesimal numbers involved. Quote a politician’s inflammatory remarks without a word of pushback. None of this requires hatred; it requires only negligence. But negligence, repeated across thousands of articles and dozens of outlets, becomes indistinguishable from malice in its effects. The BBC recorded the lowest rates of bias across all metrics. In a landscape this bleak, that matters. It demonstrates that it is possible to cover Muslims and Islam at scale, under commercial and political pressures, without resorting to dehumanising framing.  UK media revels in hate after Manchester synagogue attack  Read More » Public service obligations are not just regulatory bureaucracy. They are a meaningful check on the worst instincts of the industry - which makes the case for defending them, in the current political climate, more urgent than ever.  Kevin Maguire, one of British journalism’s most experienced voices, called the centre’s findings “shameful, dangerous and poisonous”. He is right. And the fact that a journalist of his standing felt compelled to say so publicly is itself a measure of how far things have deteriorated. The question is no longer whether this is happening. The data has settled that. The question is what happens next. Do editors read this report and make genuine changes to commissioning, to training, to the culture of their newsrooms? Do regulators, who have shown a spectacular appetite for looking the other way, finally act with the seriousness this evidence demands?  Do politicians, many of whom have fed off and amplified this hostility for electoral gain, reckon honestly with their own complicity? Or do we file this report alongside all the ones that came before it, express concern in the appropriate quarters, and wait for the next study to confirm what we already know? British Muslims are not asking for special treatment. They are asking for the same basic standards of accuracy and fairness extended to every other community. That is the minimum requirement of a functioning media in a democratic society. The minimum is not being met. The people failing to meet it know exactly who they are. And so, now, does everyone else. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. 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Gulf countries press for end to Iran war with push for diplomacy  The Hill

US farmers rush to sell crops as Iran war fuels rally  Reuters