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Iran's health infrastructure is holding up, says WHO Iran's health system is holding up despite the evacuation of six hospitals across the country, a World Health Organisation official has told Reuters.  "The primary healthcare and the health infrastructure of Iran is quite good and robust, and they're able to accommodate the casualties as of now," WHO regional director Hanan Balkhy said. As the war enters its third week Iran's ambassador to the UN has said more than 1,300 people have been killed during the conflict with over 7,000 injured.  The WHO has also reported 18 attacks on healthcare facilities in the country with eight medics reported to have died.

Kenyan foreign minister meets Russian counterpart amid reports that hundreds of Kenyans are fighting in Russia, Ukraine.

US told Turkey war on Iran would end in just four days, expert says Ragip Soylu on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 13:05 Asli Aydintasbas, who has sources within Washington and Ankara, says US had believed it would quickly declare victory Iranians after crossing into Turkey at the Kapikoy Border Gate in the eastern Van province, Turkey, 3 March 2026 (Reuters/Dilara Senkaya) Off The United States government had told Turkey through official channels that the war on Iran would only take four days, Asli Aydintasbas, a Washington-based Turkey expert, said during an interview on Sunday. “Turkey and some of its allies were told, through official channels, that this operation would take days and be completed in four days,” Aydintasbas, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, said in an interview with the Serbestiyet news site. “You cannot tell a Nato ally that you have made a four-day plan and then extend the operation to 14 days. In a sense, this was also a betrayal of the regional countries.” Since January, Turkey tried hard to stop a joint Israeli and US attack on Iran, making several proposals to Washington and Tehran and trying to host mediation talks in Istanbul. However, Turkish officials said Iran did not want to accept the Turkish offers, including arranging a trilateral teleconference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); After several rounds of talks in Oman, with a much narrower scope focused on Iran’s nuclear programme, Washington and Israel launched strikes against Iran last month, unprovoked. Aydintasbas said that US and Israeli objectives on Iran were different, with Israel ideally preferring regime change in Iran, but if that was not possible, then an Iran that is fragmented and “Syrianised”. She added that Trump, on the other hand, sought a quick victory and a return to nuclear negotiations after extracting major concessions from Iran, at least expecting a Venezuela-like option in which regime officials cooperated with Washington. Aydintasbas said the Trump administration had not consulted any Iran experts in Washington and instead hoped for a quick turnover. “Every Iran expert I spoke to said the regime would not change through a military operation, that it would not change through air strikes,” she said. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “So, driven a bit by Israel’s encouragement and a bit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s urging, Trump wanted to carry out a hit-and-run move, and now he is stuck in an open-ended war.” She said that Washington had the idea that if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were overthrown or killed, the regime would collapse. “Trump began this process hoping to find a Delcy Rodriguez-type figure in Iran and strike a deal with the regime. Instead, what he has in front of him now is someone like Kim Jong-un,” she added, referring to the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who lost his wife and daughter in a strike along with his father. Kurdish half-plans Several reports earlier this month suggested that Trump was also planning to use Iranian and, to some extent, Iraqi Kurds to launch attacks on the border and establish control over some areas. Aydintasbas said this idea, too, was another indicator of how unserious the White House approach had been to launching a war on Iran, something that concerns the entire planet. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “I think everyone watching Trump from a distance is aware of this. It is very much a ‘we’ll build the plane while flying it’ style approach: let’s just start and see what happens. We will kill Khamenei quickly, then they will kneel, then they will come to a nuclear agreement, and I will announce a great success before the midterms,” she said. “But once Trump saw that regime change was not possible and that Iran was showing resistance even after Khamenei, he seems to have asked: ‘So what can we do?’” Iraq warns Kurdish authorities not to get drawn into war on Iran, sources say Read More » Aydintasbas said that once it was clear to everyone that regime change would not happen in a few days, the American civilian bureaucracy came up with several options, remembering the Kurds, whom Washington had often worked with after the Iraq War, the First Gulf War and in Syria. “Maybe Senator Lindsey Graham called and said, ‘Wait a minute, there are Kurds,’” she said. “With Trump saying on the phone, ‘Kurds, great, who should I call?’” Aydintasbas said she does not believe Trump has the patience or interest to understand that the Kurds are not a monolithic group. “Somehow this plan circulated for two to three days. But there was a major backlash, both in the media and from Turkey behind the scenes,” she said. “I think Turkey expressed serious objections through US envoy Thomas Barrack and through its own channels. And from what I heard, countries like Saudi Arabia also said, ‘Wait a minute, what are you doing? A civil war in Iran is a dangerous thing.’” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said earlier this month that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had denied bringing up a plan to use the Kurds in Iran. Trump initially appeared to encourage the idea, reportedly telling Kurdish leaders that they would have to “choose a side” in the conflict. However, he later appeared to backtrack. “I don't want the Kurds to go into Iran,” Trump told reporters last week.  “They’re willing to go in, but I’ve told them I don’t want them to go in. The war is complicated enough without getting the Kurds involved.” War on Iran Ankara News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Despite degraded launch capabilities, Iran has enough missiles to fire strategically, keep region on edge, say experts.

Israeli strike on prison was a war crime, UN concludes An Israeli air strike on a Iranian prison that killed more than 70 people in June 2025 was a war crime according to the UN official leading the investigation. Sara Hossain, chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, also told the UN Human Rights Council that the strike on Evin prison killed 80 people including one child and eight women. Her report on the attack, she said, "Israel committed the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against a civilian object". She added, as the war on Iran continues to rage, that "external military action does not provide accountability or bring meaningful change. Instead, it risks intensifying domestic repression".

Prime minister says UK is working with allies on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but admits ending blockade is not ‘straightforward’

Iranian authorities have arrested more than 500 people accused of helping facilitate strikes against Iran by sharing information with foreign intelligence agencies and media outlets.

By Emma Farge GENEVA, March 16 (Reuters) - The head of a U.N. investigation said on Monday that an Israeli air strike on a prison last year was a war crime, and warned of risks of further repression following the current U.S.-Israeli bombings. More than 70 people were killed when Israel struck Tehran's Evin prison last June during an air war with Iran, Iranian authorities have said. The jail, known for holding political prisoners, has also been damaged in the latest U.S.-Israeli air strikes, raising fears for the detainees, who include a British couple.

President’s latest criticism of the media comes as his FCC chairman threatens to revoke broadcasters’ license for their coverage of the Iran war

"Military Dictatorship, Clerical Facade": Fareed Zakaria On Iranian Politics  NDTV

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Bill Kaplan: Stage-managing the Iran War  WisPolitics

Israeli military launches ‘ground operations’ in southern Lebanon  Al Jazeera

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Israeli strike kills nine officers and personnel, says Gaza health ministry An attack on Sunday by the Israeli military has led to the deaths of police officers and governorate personnel in the centre of Gaza. The attacks, which are being investigated by the Israeli army, was described by the interior ministry as a "heinous crime", adding that it "targeted a police vehicle carrying several officers and personnel in the central governorate". Another four people were reported to have been killed in earlier Israeli air strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp which the Israeli military says it is also investigating. The strikes have sparked condemnation as further examples of Israel's breaching the ceasefire agreed in October.

Israel’s Forever Wars  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Nigerian Inflation Eases Before Fallout From Iran War Hit  Bloomberg.com

Gold Falls Again. Why Investors Are Turning to Other Iran War Havens.  Barron's

US president on social media said he was ‘thrilled’ that Brendan Carr was looking into broadcasters’ licenses Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Donald Trump reinforced comments made by Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), threatening the broadcast licenses of news organizations that report unfavorably on the war in Iran. In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump said he was “thrilled” that Carr was “looking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations. They get Billions of Dollars of FREE American Airwaves, and use it to perpetuate LIES …”. Continue reading...