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By Maya Gebeily, Alexander Cornwell, Nandita Bose and Parisa Hafezi BEIRUT/MIAMI/TEL AVIV/DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once Tehran no longer has a functioning military or any remaining leadership in power. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said the air campaign could make negotiations a moot point if all potential leaders of Iran are killed and the Iranian military is destroyed.

SYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) - Australia's government said on Sunday it was considering requests to help protect countries attacked by Iran in the widening Middle East conflict, but reiterated it would not take part in any military operations in Iran. "We've had many countries, which are non participants, (that) have been attacked by Iran through this. You would anticipate as a consequence that we have been asked for assistance, and we will work through that carefully," Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in televised remarks.

Lebanon's health ministry said Sunday that an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, with Israel saying it had targeted commanders from Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes.

Iran struck Gulf infrastructure on Sunday, hitting fuel tanks at Kuwait's international airport and damaging a desalination plant in Bahrain as Tehran pressed its missile and drone campaign against its neighbours into a second week. Two border guards were also killed "while performing their national duty", Kuwait's interior ministry said without elaborating on the circumstances.

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Trump receives remains of six Americans killed in Iran war  USA Today

Trump administration denies reports that Iran captured US soldiers  Al Jazeera

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Social media footage shows flames leaping into the air and plumes of smoke above the city's skyline.

The global positioning system (GPS) capabilities of cargo ships, oil tankers and other vessels stuck in the Middle East because of the widening war are likely worse than those in your cell phone. Experts say this deficiency explains why since the start of US-Israeli strikes, the jamming of satellite navigation signals has left about 1,000 ships in the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman unable to determine their location, either momentarily or continuously.

Israel-Iran war updates: Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father as Iran's supreme leader; IRGC 'ready for complete obedience'  The Hindu

Israel-Iran war LIVE: ‌Iran names Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as new supreme leader, state media reports  The Hindu

IRGC seen taking bigger role in strategy amid US-Israeli airstrikes that have killed top commanders; succession process being sped up; frontrunner Mojtaba Khamenei is untested The post Cracks emerge in Iran’s leadership as it reels under a war seen as existential appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Trump rejects settling Iran war as Tehran nears decision on new leader  Reuters