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The most powerful nation in the world is now being led by a rogue president who rejects its longstanding values As we reach the 13th day of the war in Iran – with death and destruction rippling throughout the Middle East – it’s important to bear in mind where the real failure lies. So far, nearly 2,000 people have been killed, including 175 Iranian schoolchildren and seven US service members. At least 140 US service members have been wounded, several critically. The final tallies on both sides will almost certainly be far higher. Continue reading...

No ‘direct threat’ from Iran to Europe, US before war, Polish foreign minister says  politico.eu

The company has been hit by the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, with many customers reluctant to fly if they can avoid it

Death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon rises to 687 Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 687 people since 2 March, Lebanon's information minister said on Thursday, as Israel threatened to expand its operations as it fights Hezbollah in the country. In a statement following a cabinet meeting, Paul Marcos said that "the number of killed reached 687, including 98 children and 52 women".

Iran Is Starting to Shape the Day After the War, and It Has a Partner  Haaretz

Turkey’s Central Bank Holds Rates as Iran War Threatens Inflation Pickup  WSJ

Hacker group Handala claimed responsibility for attack that caused ‘global disruption’ to Stryker Corporation’s systems An Iran-linked group said it hacked a US medical company, causing “global disruption” to its systems, in retaliation for the bombing of the Minab school in Iran, in an attack seen as widening the Middle East into the cyber realm. Handala, a hacker group, claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday on the Stryker Corporation, which makes medical devices and is based in Michigan. It affected thousands of employees using the company’s Microsoft systems. Continue reading...

TEHRAN, Mar. 12 (MNA) – Speaker of Iranian parliament has warned that any attempts to invade the country's islands in the Persian Gulf will draw harsh response from Iran.

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Israeli settlers in West Bank use cover of Iran war to attack and murder Palestinians Katherine Hearst on Thu, 03/12/2026 - 09:34 At least six Palestinians have been killed in the past week alone, as activists report unprecedented violence Mousa and Omar Hamayel, both 39, at the site where Thaer Hamayel was killed during an attack by Israeli settlers near Ramallah, in March 2026 (Reuters/Ammar Awad) Off Early on Sunday morning, residents of Abu Falah, a small town near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, spotted a group of around 100 Israeli settlers gathered on a hill near their homes. The masked men then descended on the town, with the intention of razing Palestinian homes and evicting their residents. The residents are used to continuous harassment by settlers from outposts dotting the surrounding hills, but say they have never experienced this scale of violence before. They were panicked by the settlers, who were armed with M16 rifles, so they sent urgent messages via village WhatsApp groups. Other residents emerged from their homes to block the path of the attackers. “When the settlers realised they couldn’t burn our homes, they opened fire on us,” Omar Hamayel, an eyewitness, told Middle East Eye. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Two of Hamayel's relatives were killed by the settlers: Fare Jawdat Abu Nurah, 57, and Faruq Hamayel, 30, were both shot in the head.  The attackers also left seven Palestinians injured. “One man was shot in the thigh.  While he was lying wounded on the ground, settlers attacked him with rocks, attempting to kill him with their fists and stones. Other Palestinians tried to pull him away and save him,” Hamayel said. Teargas fired at medical centre An hour and a half later, the Israeli military arrived. They fired teargas at residents gathered outside the medical centre, who had come to check on their relatives. One of them, Muhammad Jawdat Abu Nurah, a 54-year-old father of four, who was asleep at the time of the attacks, emerged from his home only to suffer a cardiac arrest due to gas inhalation. He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Following the attack, activists circulated footage on WhatsApp appearing to show a new settler outpost erected a few hundred metres away from the site of the killings. The three killed in Abu Falah are among six Palestinians killed in settler attacks across the West Bank in the past week, as violence surges under cover of the US-Israel military assault on Iran.  The settler attacks were not concentrated in one area, but occurred in villages across the West Bank. Days after the launch of the strikes on Iran, in the early hours of 2 March, settlers shot dead brothers Muhammad and Fahim Azem in the village of Qaryut, in the Nablus governorate. A few days later, on the opposite end of the West Bank in Wadi a-Rahim, in the south Hebron hills, an armed settler killed 26-year-old Amir Muhammad Shanaran and severely injured his brother, Khaled. Malak Beirat, 26, smells the scent of her husband Thaer Hamayel on the jacket he left behind before he was killed by Israeli settlers in the village of Abu Falah (Supplied) (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Ameen Shoman, a member of the Fatah regional committee in Ramallah and Bireh, said that the surge in attacks has been accompanied by an acceleration of the establishment of illegal outposts, particularly in Areas B and C. “Thousands of trees have been cut and hundreds of vehicles and tens of Palestinian homes have been burned,” Shoman told MEE. “They are taking advantage of the conditions on the ground to impose a fait accompli policy through geographical and demographic changes in the Palestinian territories,” he said. An ethnic cleansing 'opportunity' Rami Kukhun, advocacy and policy officer at the NGO Première Urgence Internationale, said the scale and severity of the violence is unprecedented. ‘I don't remember a week where six people would get killed by settlers, and in different areas all over the West Bank,” Kukhun told MEE. “It's much more common now to hear that somebody has been killed by settlers or injured badly. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian mosque in occupied West Bank during Ramadan Read More » Since October 2023, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by settlers and Israeli soldiers across the occupied West Bank. One in five of them were children.  Yair Dvir, a spokesperson for B’Tselem, said the surge in killings is also due to the fact that settlers are increasingly deploying live ammunition, and targeting bigger villages in Area B, like Qaryut and Abu Falah.  Settler attacks previously targeted smaller rural communities in Area C – which constitutes roughly 60 percent of the West Bank and is under Israeli control – but are now spreading to larger towns in Area B, which is administered by the Palestinian Authority. “We are seeing settlers talking about it openly, about the fact that they have the opportunity to increase the ethnic cleansing,” Dvir said. According to B’Tselem, some 57 communities have been forcibly displaced since 7 October 2023, four of them in the past week alone. Following Saturday’s attack on Abu Falah, the Israeli military issued a statement promising "zero tolerance for civilians taking the law into their own hands”. Settlers have long conducted raids in collaboration with the military. But now, the cooperation seems to be deepening, with settlers forming vigilante militias and being armed with military-grade weapons. On Monday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir authorised some 300,000 residents of Jewish neighbourhoods in Jerusalem to carry firearms.  Jonathan Pollak, an anti-occupation activist, reported that in the past week, settlers in civilian clothing had been seen manning checkpoints, along with Israeli soldiers. He added that, also in the past week, armoured vehicles have been seen in villages. “This is not something we’ve seen since the Second Intifada,” Pollak said. “And even then it was rare: heavy armoured vehicles were mostly used in cities and refugee camps, not in villages. “The tactical reason for it is completely unclear, because they don’t do anything,” he said. “There seems to be no reason, other than to escalate.” A lawless land The Jordan Valley, which lies in Area C, offers a stark vision of where the rest of the West Bank is headed. The fertile strip of land, which runs along the West Bank’s eastern flank, was once dotted with Palestinian herding communities. It is earmarked to form part of a future Palestinian state. Now, it has largely been emptied of Palestinians by near daily settler attacks run from neighbouring illegal outposts.  'The daily harassment has become unbearable' – Amos Goldberg, Jordan Valley Activists Meanwhile, decades of Israeli policies have barred Palestinians from agricultural land by designating swathes of it “firing zones” and choking off water supplies. “They can gain huge chunks of land by evicting small communities,” Amos Goldberg, a member of a network of Israeli activists, Jordan Valley Activists, told MEE. “The daily harassment has become unbearable, it is completely lawless territory.” The campaign was turbo-charged in the wake of 7 October 2023. Now, the takeover is almost complete.  In January, 12 families were forced to leave the last remaining Bedouin village in the southern Jordan Valley. The weeks since the launch of the war on Iran have seen a slew of attacks on communities in the north, where only a handful remain. On Tuesday night, activists reported that settlers stormed the last remaining homes in the community of Hammamat al-Maleh.  The hamlet has suffered eight attacks in the last two weeks alone. Settlers reportedly assaulted 74-year-old Haj Abu al-Raed and two Israeli activists. Activists reported that the assailants “broke the elder’s glasses and beat him until he bled”. Days before, the commander of the Jordan Valley Brigade, Brigadier General Gilad Shriki, toured communities in the Northern Jordan Valley, including Hammamat al-Maleh, instructing them to leave. Shriki warned them that his troops were constructing a barrier, which would seal the annexation of the area, severing it from the rest of the West Bank and barring farmers from reaching their land. The separation barrier, which will run for 22km in the northern Jordan Valley, is the death knell for communities like Hammamat al-Maleh. Shriki told the remaining communities they should leave now, to spare themselves the heartbreak of seeing their homes demolished. "This is Area C," he said. "This land belongs to the Jews." Israel's genocide in Gaza Heba Nasser Ahmad Shoman London the occupied West Bank News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Three more civilian ships were attacked in the Gulf overnight, killing at least one person.

In photos: Aftermath of Israeli attacks on Lebanon Mourners attend the funeral of four family members killed overnight by Israeli air strikes that targeted the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on 12 March, 2026. (AFP) A man stands on the rubble of a destroyed building as firefighters work at the site of overnight Israeli strikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs on 12 March, 2026. (AFP) Firefighters work at the site of overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs on 12 March, 2026. (AFP) People inspect a damaged car in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Ramlet al-Baida at Corniche Beirut, where displaced people have been sleeping rough or in tents on the streets. (Reuters)

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Iran 'not in danger of collapse', say US intelligence sources Peter McNamara on Thu, 03/12/2026 - 10:18 After nearly two weeks of constant bombardment and the assassination of its Supreme Leader, Iran's administration remains intact A portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son and new Supreme Leader Mojtaba at the funerals of IRGC commanders, March 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP) Off US intelligence reports suggest that Iran's leadership retains control of the country, several sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. After two weeks of joint US-Israeli strikes on the country, including one that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one source told the news agency that there is "consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger" of collapse and "retains control of the Iranian public". Following a “multitude” of intelligence reports that have reached this conclusion, the most recent coming in the last few days, President Donald Trump’s decision to end the bombardment, which he told CBS on Monday will end “soon, very soon”, could signal a costly failure for the administration. The reports follow comments from Democratic senators, who said following a behind closed doors briefing from President Donald Trump's administration that the US has "no plan" in Iran, and that earlier CIA assessments had concluded that if Iran's leaders were taken out, an "even more radical group" would emerge. Trump's intervention, which has so far left at least seven American troops dead and 140 others injured, has provoked a backlash among parts of his supporter base. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); With oil prices surging as Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world's oil is shipped, a failure to topple the Iranian administration will likely pile more pressure on the White House. The senators briefed by US officials said that "regime change" was not one of the war's goals. US has ‘no plan’ for Iran war and Strait of Hormuz, senators say after briefing Read More » A separate Reuters report found that Israeli officials did not believe it was certain there would be an uprising from the Iranian public nor the collapse of the government, which recently appointed a new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the previous supreme leader. While another source insisted that Israel has no intention of allowing any form of the Iranian government to survive, they did suggest it would require forces on the ground in order to successfully topple the regime, which the US has not ruled out doing. The Trump administration has given multiple reasons for initiating Operation Epic Fury, as the military bombardment has been dubbed, including as an act of self-defence against Iran’s nuclear ambitions as well as a chance to liberate the Iranian people.  Now, though, amid warnings from Iran that oil prices could climb far higher, the biggest US military operation since 2003 might well end unsuccessfully, with intelligence reports indicating that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran's interim leaders retain control of the country. The US government has also put forward mixed messages on how it intends to proceed. A day before Trump promised the war would end soon, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth told CBS, "This is only just the beginning."  War on Iran News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Iran War Pushes Indian Firms to Pull $2.1 Billion of Bond Sales  Bloomberg

We asked 1,000 Americans if U.S. strikes on Iran should continue. Here’s what they said.  The Washington Post

The damage to the world economy from the Iran war will be severe, but uneven  The Economist

Buy this chemicals stock as escalating Iran war drives prices higher, says Citi  CNBC