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A senior White House staff member has released a bizarre AI-generated video of Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei .

Iran targets Gulf nations with missiles, drones as oil prices soar  Al Jazeera

US–Iran War: Civilian Deaths Expose the Costs of Escalation  Frontline Magazine

Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s attacks on shipping worsen economic concerns  France 24

How the Iran War Creates a New Strategic Environment  Geopolitical Futures

Tens of thousands have fled the Gulf to escape the Middle East war, but Bangladeshi migrant workers say they have little choice but to return to earn a living. At Dhaka airport, lines of workers hugged family members and said tearful goodbyes before boarding flights back to their jobs abroad. "It's natural to be scared, to feel sad as I am going back," said Mohammed Sakib, 28, flying to Saudi Arabia, leaving his new wife and extended family behind. "Who knows what might happen?"

The differences between what Trump and Netanyahu want out of this war are starting to show and complicating how it will end When the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran to start a war that is now entering its third week, it was the start of something unprecedented; the first joint Israeli-American war. Even though the US has long been a close military ally of Israel, this has never happened before. Unlike last year’s “12-day war” where Israel launched a war that the US joined near the very end with a single set of strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, this Israeli-American war on Iran is deeply coordinated at the operational level between both belligerents day in and day out. That is precisely why clear, shared objectives between Washington and Tel Aviv will be crucial for the US to exit this war with a political victory and not just the tab for tons of destruction across the region with little significant change. Much of what we have seen so far suggests strongly that that is not the case; Israel and the US have different goals here, if they even really know what their goals are, and because of this no clear endgame can be envisioned even as the costs of the war mount. Continue reading...

Oil spikes with no end in sight for Iran war, both sides continue unrelenting missile strikes  KGW

Opinion | The Iran war is serious. The way Pete Hegseth talks about it is not.  MS NOW

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US-Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Drone Explosion Reported Near Burj Khalifa in Dubai as Gulf Region Faces Rising Security Threats  The Sunday Guardian

Desertions, shortages and army-IRGC rift strain Iran’s military  ایران اینترنشنال

Germany’s Economic Institutes Downgrade Growth Forecast on Iran War  WSJ

Iran war is causing ‘largest disruption in history’ to oil supplies, says IEA  Financial Times

TEHRAN, Mar. 12 (MNA) – Local media in the occupied Palestinian lands have reported that the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah fired over 200 missiles at occupying regime of Israel on Thursday night.

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An Al Jazeera crew filmed bunker-busting bombs being loaded onto US military planes at a UK military base.

Former defense minister, fired by PM in November 2024 amid heated wartime disagreements that have persisted past his sacking, says 'right now isn't the time' for him to run The post Yoav Gallant says he won’t run for office in next election, leaves future open appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Strikes kill nine people near Iraq-Syria border, security officials say Air strikes killed at least nine Iran-backed fighters in Iraq on Thursday near the Iraqi-Syrian border, two senior security officials told AFP.  Another 10 fighters were wounded in the strikes that targeted a base belonging to Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, the officials added on condition of anonymity, with one saying that the death toll could rise.  "The base was destroyed, and the rescue teams who arrived at the site were also targeted," one of the officials said.