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Video: Passengers At Dubai Airport Sent To Shelter Amid Iran Missile Threat  NDTV

Iran is a crucial test case for the American way of war  Financial Times

Among the many justifications Donald Trump has presented for the US and Israel attacking Iran has been the supposedly imminent threat posed by its nuclear weapons programme. But how close was the country really to developing an atomic weapon? Ian Sample hears from Kelsey Davenport, the director of non-proliferation policy at the Arms Control Association. She sets out why many experts don’t believe the country even had a structured nuclear weapons programme, and explains what she thinks the impact of the war could be on nuclear proliferation around the world. Attacking Iran’s nuclear programme could drive it towards a bomb, experts warn Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war. Even as Iranians filled the streets to mark the appointment of a new supreme leader, the Shahran oil depot north-east of Tehran and the Shahr-e fuel depot to its south continued to burn on Monday, two days after they were bombed by Israeli warplanes. Continue reading...

The war with Iran is doing collateral damage to the world economy

Are US and Israel on the same page about ending Iran war?  news.cgtn.com

South Korea says it cannot stop US weapons redeployment South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday said his government cannot prevent the United States from redeploying weapons stationed in South Korea to the Middle East in the war against Iran.  Speaking at a cabinet meeting, Lee said Seoul had expressed concerns about the move but was not in a position to make demands on Washington. Local media reported that US Patriot missile defence systems may have been moved from Osan Air Base and could be redeployed to American bases in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Lee said the removal of some weapons would not weaken South Korea’s deterrence posture against North Korea.  US Army Patriot Launching Station during a practice missile reload and unload drills on a THAAD system trainer at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam on 6 February 2019. REUTERS

What we know on the 11th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran  CNN

US president says war is ‘very complete’ and threatens worse strikes if passage of oil via strait of Hormuz is blocked; IRGC says it will not let out ‘one litre of oil’ Oil prices drop sharply after Trump moves to reassure markets Trump says Iran war is ‘very complete, pretty much’ as economic toll rises Israeli strikes have hit south and east Lebanon, state media is reporting. The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, says it has intercepted a missile and drone attack from Iran. Continue reading...

TEHRAN, Mar. 10 (MNA) – The IRGC Public Relations Department announced that the 33rd wave of Operation “True Promise-4” was carried out by firing over 10 “Kheybar Shekan” missiles deep inside Tel Aviv.

Trump claimed US has ‘already won in many ways’ and its military objectives are ‘pretty well complete’

India File: Iran war reverberates from farmlands to diamond vaults  Reuters

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HANOI, March 10 (Reuters) - Vietnam's trade ministry has called on local businesses to encourage their employees to work from home as part of efforts to save on fuel amid supply disruptions and price surges triggered by the Iran war. Vietnam has been among the countries hardest hit by fuel disruptions since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began, being heavily reliant on energy imports from the Middle East, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, citing a report from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

A new investigation by the New York Times has shed more light on events surrounding a reported attack on a school in Iran at the start of the Middle East war. Iran has accused Israel and the United States of conducting a strike on an elementary school in the southern city of Minab, which it said killed more than 150 people. US President Donald Trump has blamed Iran, while the Pentagon has said it is investigating the incident. AFP has been unable to access the location to independently verify the circumstances or the toll from any such incident.

Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security  The Guardian

Infant killed in Tehran building hit by US missiles The body of a one-year-old girl was recovered from the rubble of a residential building in Tehran after it was hit by US and Israeli missiles on Tuesday, Mehr news reported.  Video posted on Telegram showed emergency workers searching through debris before retrieving the infant’s body. Rescue teams continued digging through the wreckage as strikes hit multiple areas of the Iranian capital during the ongoing conflict. Iranian authorities say several civilian areas have been damaged in the war, with large-scale US and Israeli attacks on Iranian military and infrastructure targets.  A still image from video shows what experts tell Reuters appears to be a US Tomahawk missile hitting near the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab, Hormozgan province, Iran on 28 February 2026. MEHR NEWS/ REUTERS

Vague and contradictory Trump says Iran war ‘won’, but not ‘won enough’  The Guardian

Oil prices drop sharply after Trump moves to reassure markets over Iran war  The Guardian

US missile destroys school, homes in Iran's Khomeyn, local media reports Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that a US missile strike hit a school in the central city of Khomeyn, damaging the Hafez Khomeni School and several nearby homes. The report said the attack destroyed the surrounding residential area. The incident comes amid growing calls for an investigation into a previous missile strike on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab that reportedly killed at least 170 children.