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Outdated intel likely led to deadly U.S. strike on Iranian elementary school, sources say  NBC News

GCC condemns drone attack on Oman’s Salalah port The secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) condemned a drone attack on fuel storage tanks at Oman’s Salalah port. Jasem Mohamed Al Budaiwi said the GCC stands firmly with Oman and supports its efforts to safeguard its security, stability and territorial integrity. Omani authorities said drones struck fuel tanks at the port earlier on Wednesday, while other drones were intercepted. The attack caused damage to the tanks but no casualties were reported.

Iran escalates attacks on infrastructure and transport networks across the Gulf  The Guardian

Duckworth, Durbin Join Senate Colleagues in Pressing DOD for Answers on the School Bombing and Civilian Casualties in Iran  RiverBender.com

Qatar warns UN Security Council inaction sends ‘dangerous signal’ Qatar’s ambassador to the United Nations urged the Security Council to act to halt the US-Israeli assault on Iran which has escalated into a war across the Middle East.  Speaking to reporters in New York, Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, said continued Iranian attacks on Qatari territory were damaging relations between the two countries. “The Security Council must act and fulfill its responsibility,” she said. “Failure to respond would send a dangerous signal that attacks against uninvolved neighbours carry no consequences.”

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Interior Minister John Reimberg warned for residents in four provinces to obey a curfew to avoid 'collateral damage'.

Trump's war on Iran creates an economic storm for consumers and the Fed  NBC News

Republicans’ biggest fear now, writes Eric Garcia is that someone will ‘panic and leave before the job is done’

WHO says 54 of health facilities shut in Lebanon amid Israeli attacks The World Health Organization said 49 primary healthcare centres and five hospitals in Lebanon have shut down as the US-Israeli war on Iran and its wider spillover in the region intensifies. In a post on X, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the closures followed evacuation orders and were severely limiting access to medical care. He warned that health systems across the region are under heavy strain more than 10 days into the escalation. The WHO has also verified 18 attacks on health facilities in Iran, 25 in Lebanon and two in Israel since 28 February.

Trump says he's unaware of evidence indicating US bombed girls' school in Iran Yasmine El-Sabawi on Wed, 03/11/2026 - 17:58 This comes four days after the president insisted that Iran targeted the school, killing mostly children US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters before boarding Marine One from the White House in Washington, DC, on 11 March 2026 (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Off Four days after US President Donald Trump put the blame on Tehran for the bombing of a girls' school in Minab, Iran, he told reporters he's unaware of the mounting evidence that it was likely the result of a US air strike.  At least 165 people died in that air strike. Most were children.  "A new report says a military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school," a reporter told the president on Wednesday, as he took questions outside the White House. She repeated her statement a second time when he didn't appear to hear it, and asked him to respond.  "I don't know," Trump said.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); An analysis of satellite images as well as photographs of residual weapons at the destruction site, carried out by The New York Times, indicated last week that the US was the most likely culprit.  The investigative outfit Bellingcat later released video of what appeared to be a Tomahawk missile - a distinctly US munition - hitting a building near the school.  At a Monday evening press conference, Trump said that "whether it’s Iran or somebody else... a Tomahawk is very generic".  The Associated Press then reported that night that an unnamed Trump administration official admitted the US very likely bombed the school, not Israel, and not Iran.  "What more do you need to do, militarily, for this operation to end?" another reporter asked Trump on Wednesday outside the White House. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "More of the same," he responded. Unpopular war Senate Democrats have now sent a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demanding answers. "We write to you with grave concern," they said. "The results of this school attack are horrific. The majority of those killed in the strikes were girls between the ages of 7 and 12 years old. Neither the United States nor the Israeli Government has yet taken responsibility for this attack." US has ‘no plan’ for Iran war and Strait of Hormuz, senators say after briefing Read More » Hegseth told reporters last week that he believes this war should have "no stupid rules of engagement". "You set the tone for US military conduct, and your recent comments send a clear message of disregard for the laws of war," Democrats wrote.  Trump's unwillingness to pull back or draw down the war on Iran has proven largely unpopular with Americans, based on separate polling conducted since 28 February by Quinnipiac University, CNN, and Drop Site News.  On Wednesday, the National Iranian American Council released the results of its own phone survey on the war with more than 500 Iranian Americans, reflecting an even division between those who oppose and support it. In the poll, 49.3 percent of respondents said they oppose the US-Israeli war on Iran, while 48.9 percent said they support it. Another 1.8 percent said they preferred not to answer. 'This thing is a victory' In a signal that perhaps even the most hardline conservatives and Trump loyalists want the president to end the as-yet undefined mission, Republican senator Josh Hawley told Fox News on Tuesday that he thinks the US has done enough to now claim victory against Iran, seemingly encouraging Trump to call it a day.  "You had Trump taking out the nukes back in June. Now you've had the last 10 days. Does anybody really think that these people are ever going to try to make a nuke again? What would they make it with? Charcoal?" Hawley said. A day earlier, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt maintained that the war was, in fact, about nuclear weapons - even though Trump had branded the programme long "obliterated".  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "I mean, this is an overriding success," Hawley said. "You look at all the success that we've had in the last 10 days. I mean, this thing is a victory. I think we should be hailing our military as the heroes they are. We ought to be thanking them for their service, and we ought to be saying we've achieved our objectives here, big time." Interceptor shortage could force Gulf states to be selective in their targets: Report Read More » But it's unclear what the US endgame is, and senators on Tuesday night left a closed-door briefing on the war with one conclusion: the US has no plan. “What you hear behind closed doors is essentially what we’re hearing in the public domain, which is complete incoherence,” Senator Chris Van Hollen said after the briefing. “It is so much worse than you thought,” said Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator.  “The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Trump has not given a single clear reason for the war and has no plan to end it,” she added.  It's unclear how much longer the war could drag on. More than 1,300 Iranians have been killed thus far, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said.  More than 43,000 US citizens have now returned home from the Middle East since 28 February, the State Department announced on Wednesday. The agency has assumed a more robust response to panicked Americans after initially bungling the response to the war, and only putting out "shelter-in-place" warnings after the bombs began falling from all sides.  With more than a million Americans residing in the affected regions as Iran mounts retaliatory strikes against US assets, most have chosen to stay or find their own way back without US government assistance via charter flights, the State Department indicated.  War on Iran Washington News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel ‘betrayed’ over Iran war  CNN

Senate Democrats Push for Answers on Strike Targeting Iran Girls' School, Civilian Casualties  GV Wire

Houston's energy industry looks to benefit from Iran war  Axios

The State Department will permanently close the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has been America’s closest diplomatic mission to the Afghan border

Israeli strikes kill 6 in southern Lebanon refugee camp At least six people were killed and several others wounded in Israeli air raids on the Burj al-Shamali camp in southern Lebanon, the country’s National News Agency reported. Two more people were killed in a separate strike on the town of Deir Antar, according to the report.

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Trump will tap oil reserve as Iran war drives up gas prices  Axios

Europe faces stiff competition with Asia for energy supplies as Russia profits.