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Karoline Leavitt fired back at a White House correspondent who asked whether Donald Trump was "making up" claims that Iran was about to attack US targets to justify his decision to launch strikes.

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Iranian Military Shows It Knows How to Adapt, U.S. Officials Say  The New York Times

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, March 10 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards forced through the choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader, seeing him as a more pliant version of his father who would back their hardline policies, bludgeoning aside the concerns of pragmatists, senior Iranian sources said. Already very powerful, the Guards have gained yet greater sway since the war began and quickly overcame the misgivings of senior political and clerical figures whose opposition to the choice delayed the announcement by hours, the sources said.

SEOUL, March 11 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it supports the Iranian people's choice of new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named on Monday to succeed his father killed in the initial strikes against the country by the U.S. and Israel, state media said. North Korea's foreign ministry also said it strongly denounces acts of aggression by the U.S. and Israel of "illegal" attacks against Iran, which are destroying peace and escalating instability worldwide, KCNA state news agency said. (Reporting by Jack Kim; E+diting by Chris Reese)

The BBC's Emily Wither speaks to people who have left Iran on a border crossing in eastern Turkey.

Trump threatens to escalate attacks on Iran as US military destroys 16 mine-laying boats  The Hill

Iran war threatens Board of Peace  Politico

The president wants to tightly manage the public perception of his conflict with Iran, but the realities of war make that impossible, writes John Bowden

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Oil spike fades as markets reassess Iran war supply risks  Fox Business

South Korea confirms US moving air defence systems to the Middle East Sean Mathews on Tue, 03/10/2026 - 21:05 The US has a mutual defence pact with the country, but Seoul says it has no power to stop the move South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech at the Philippines-Korea Business Forum in Pasay, Metro Manila, on 4 March 2026 (Jam Sta Rosa/Pool/AFP) Off South Korean President Lee Jae Myung confirmed on Tuesday that the US planned to pull air defence systems from his country to wage war on Iran.  “We oppose the withdrawal of some US air defence weapons used for our country’s military needs, but it is also a harsh reality that we cannot completely impose our opinion,” Lee Jae Myung told his cabinet. The statement is the first public confirmation that the US has been forced to take critical air defence systems from East Asia to secure the Middle East after the US and Israel launched a war on Iran. The Washington Post first reported the Pentagon was moving parts of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system from South Korea to the Middle East.  South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun reportedly said last week that the US was in talks with Seoul about redeploying Patriot air defence batteries from the country to the Middle East. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); South Korea is a key US ally and military partner. Its long-time foe, North Korea, also possesses nuclear weapons, unlike Iran. 'Asset or liability?': Gulf's US security dependence under scrutiny as Iran lands blows Read More » South Korea is the US’s sixth-largest trading partner, with economic activity between the two countries far outstripping any economic links the US has with Israel, Turkey, or the Gulf states. The US also has a mutual defence treaty with South Korea, unlike any other country in the Middle East. South Korea would not be the first country the US has had to raid for defensive capabilities in response to Iranian missile and drone attacks. Turkey said on Tuesday that an additional Patriot air defence system had been deployed to its Malatya province in the wake of two Iranian missile attacks. Middle East Eye reported that the Iranian missiles may have been testing Turkish airspace to target a crucial Nato radar base in Malatya. The newly deployed Patriot systems were reportedly moved from Nato’s Ramstein base in Germany. The decision to take air defence systems from South Korea underscores how stretched US capabilities are. MEE revealed that the US has struggled to fill requests by its Gulf partners for air defence interceptors. Some Gulf analysts have questioned the value of US military bases as their countries are pummelled by Iran. Ironically, the Trump administration entered office promising to end US “forever wars” in the Middle East. Eldridge Colby, the under secretary of war for policy, made a name for himself advocating for reassessing security commitments in the Middle East so that the US was better positioned to compete with China, the world’s largest economy, widely regarded as Washington's only true superpower peer. War on Iran News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Explosions heard in Tehran Explosions have been heard in the Iranian capital, after the Israeli army announced it was launching a “massive” new attack, Aljazeera is reporting. Earlier, the Israeli military said in a post on its Farsi language account on X, that the attacks were targeting infrastructure in the Iranian capital.

Allocations approved for Haredi institutions, West Bank settlements and other coalition priorities. Opposition politicians accuse government of funding draft evasion during wartime The post Cabinet okays $1.6 billion in coalition funds, including $715 million for ultra-Orthodox appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Iran police chief warns against anti-regime protests as Israeli PM urges Iranians to 'gain freedom'  BBC

Iran war updates: Oil prices fall as Trump says war is 'very complete'  USA Today

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Reports Say Up to 150 American Troops Injured in Just 10 Days of Iran War  Truthout

Defence secretary Hegseth warns of 'most intense' day of US war on Iran  BBC

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the Iran war, saying they were worried that President Donald Trump could deploy U.S. ground forces and noting the high risks given Russian support for Tehran's military. "We know that Russia is already helping with intel, providing that to Iran, and that there's an axis with Russia and China, Iran and North Korea that puts at greater risk the United States and our national security," Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire said on CNN.