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Attacks by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, and Iranian missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries, have disrupted oil and gas supplies to the rest of the world — and dealt an energy price shock to the global economy

Iran Live Updates: Oil Prices Soar as Fighting Escalates; Iran Picks Khamenei's Son as Leader, Defying Trump  The New York Times

Trump says Australia will give Iranian soccer players asylum amid war buildup  Politico

France preparing to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz when war calms: Macron  Al Jazeera

Middle East strengthen ties with Israel amid Iran war  The Jerusalem Post

U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School  The Intercept

The Take: Why Israel’s war on Hezbollah keeps returning  Al Jazeera

Mojtaba Khamenei has been chosen to replace his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader, while the country continues to be heavily bombarded by US and Israeli forces. There are concerns the move could lead to a further escalation of war in the Middle East, after Donald Trump warned that Khamenei was an ‘unacceptable’ choice. Lucy Hough speaks to diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour Continue reading...

The Chancellor said she was ready to support a ‘co-ordinated release’ of international oil reserves.

Trump Iran US Military Deaths Casualty Return  Martinsville Bulletin

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Daily Report: The Second Iran War – March 9, 2026 (18:00)  Alma Research and Education Center

'They're lying to us': Israeli media isn't challenging Netanyahu on the Iran war  Haaretz

The Iran War Is Pushing the US Economy Toward 'Stagflation'  Investopedia

French president says 'purely defensive' mission aims to gradually reopen key Gulf waterway amid spike in oil prices.

GUEST COLUMN: The Strait of Hormuz to the I.V. Gas Pump  Calexico Chronicle

'An almost invisible fighter': The stealth jet striking Iran  Euronews.com

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Desmond Hewitt responds to an article by an Iranian citizen living in Tehran in the midst of the ongoing war The poignancy of the anonymous author’s article describing life in Tehran is almost too much to bear (‘Don’t die’: the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now, 7 March). I would like to say to them and their friends who simply want to stay alive that there are many here among us, in the UK at least, who agree with you. In particular, your words on the oxymoronic dictatorial democratic narrative on the justification for yet another confected, misguided and maniacal war in the Middle East. The Alice Through the Looking Glass prism that the government of the world’s so-called largest democracy uses as its justification for the bombing of your country is sickening. Sickening because that country has stood by while the atrocities they claim to abhor take place elsewhere in the world. Continue reading...

Pentagon IDs 7th US service member killed in Iran war  abcnews.com