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🚨 Iran uses its latest Khorramshaur 4 superheavy missile during the conflict with the US and Israel - Iranian state TV
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🚨 Lavrov: Russia haven't seen security guarantees that Zelensky is talking about
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🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 US–Israeli strikes on Iran: Latest updates
🔸 Iran launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel overnight.
🔸 Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has decreased by 90% amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East, according to analytics firm Kpler.
🔸 Iraqi Kurds deny reports of an offensive against Iran.
🔸 The Iranian General Staff has refuted reports of missile launches towards Turkiye.
🔸 The head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services: the number of casualties from the US-Israeli attacks has exceeded 6,000, with around 2,500 in hospitals.
🔸 The Red Crescent: 105 civilian facilities in Iran have been attacked by Israel and the US during the conflict.
🔸 The Iranian military struck the fuel storage tanks at the Ramat-David airbase in Israel, reported Press TV.
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🚨🇷🇺 Lavrov: Russia will do everything to create an atmosphere that will make US and Israel operation against Iran impossible
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🤝 US Interior Secretary visits Venezuela to deepen energy ties
Delcy Rodríguez hosted Doug Burgum at Miraflores Palace for talks aimed at "strengthening bilateral exchange in energy and mining matters."
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🗣 NATO will stay 'ambiguous' on whether Iran attack triggers Article 5 — Rutte
The Secretary General refuses to clarify if the strike on the US Embassy meets the threshold for collective defense.
"We keep it very ambiguous because we don't want to make our enemies, our adversaries, any wiser," he told Newsmax.
🚨 Casualties mount in the war on Iran: latest figures
As of March 4, casualties include over 1,000 killed and hundreds wounded in Iran, including 168 girls killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Minab on February 28.
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📑 Senate blocks attempt to limit Trump's Iran war powers
The resolution would have required congressional approval before any further strikes could be carried out, though President Trump could have vetoed it anyway.
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💬 Trump praises Venezuela's acting president as oil ties deepen
"The Oil is beginning to flow, and the professionalism and dedication between both Countries is a very nice thing to see," the US president wrote on Truth Social.
🔊 Daily life in Tehran continues despite people living through anger and grief in the wake of US-Israeli attacks, journalist Farzaneh Fazaeli told Sputnik
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🟠 Ukraine is preparing to undermine 'Turkish Stream' and 'Blue Stream' – Putin
🟠 Operation Epic Fury’s cost after five days: $3 BILLION and counting
🟠 Iran’s disruption of Mideast communication hubs exposes cracks in US air defenses – expert
🟠 Iran using dummy targets to fool US, Israel: expert
🟠 Terrorists, refugees, and the Shia factor: Why Pakistan is closely watching the Iran war
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🪖🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran using dummy targets to fool US, Israel: expert
💬 “Iran is actively using decoys and mockups to mislead its adversaries,” military expert and air defense historian Yuri Knutov told Sputnik.
🚨 Ukraine is preparing to undermine 'Turkish Stream' and 'Blue Stream' - Putin
🟠 Russian special services have data on preparations for blowing up the Blue Stream and Turkish Stream pipelines
🟠 Threats to blow up pipelines under the Black Sea are 'very dangerous game' on Ukraine's part
🟠 Russia informed Turkiye about Ukraine's preparations to undermine the Blue Stream and the Turkish Stream pipelines
Other statements by the Russian president:
🟠 The situation in the Middle East affects the cost of energy resources worldwide
🟠 The situation with rising gas prices in the EU is the result of a misguided policy of European authorities over many years
🟠 The surge in gas prices on the European market is not directly related to supplies - no one has reduced them, and is caused by the overall situation on world markets
🟠 The rise in oil prices is linked, among other things, to restrictions on Russian oil
🟠 Europe's policy on energy resources has nothing to do with the interests of the peoples of these countries
🟠 Russia is considering stopping gas supplies to European markets now, and not in a month, as the EU wants, and to move to more promising markets
🟠 American energy companies will move to those markets where there is more demand, this is dictated solely by business interests
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🚨🇷🇺🇭🇺 Russia still a reliable energy partner for Hungary – Putin
Other statements by the Russian president:
🟠 Russia will always honor its energy deals with Hungary
🟠 But not everything depends on Russia
🟠 Energy sector relations are positive, including cooperation on the Paks Nuclear power plant
🟠 Two Hungarians press-ganged into the Ukrainian army and captured by Russian forces will be released
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🚨💥 Iran strikes back: Strong retaliation against US & Israeli attacks
Fifteen countries and multiple US military bases have been hit by Iran in response to the US–Israeli attacks
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🚨 US-Israeli strike destroys Azadi football stadium in Tehran
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🚨 Russia sees that Europeans are already thinking about the possibility of pushing back the deadlines for bans on LNG imports from Russia - Kremlin
Other statements by Dmitry Peskov:
🟠 On the topic of leaving the European gas market: this is Putin's instruction to the Cabinet to work on the issue
🟠 Russian gas companies remain in contact with global market representatives
🟠 The global situation related to the war in Iran does not affect fuel prices in Russia
🟠 Russia's position on the situation surrounding Iran is consistent and well-known to everyone
🟠 Russia has not received any requests for necessary assistance from Tehran
🟠 There are no signs of a change in the EU's position regarding the operation of Nord Stream
"The situation is indeed becoming more difficult for Europeans with each passing day. This applies both to citizens in terms of household energy bills, and to industry."
🚨🇷🇺 Lavrov proposes imposing moratorium on attacks that lead to civilian casualties in Middle East
The Russian Foreign Minister also proposed to adopt resolution in the UNSC calling for end to conflict as soon as possible.
🔹 Gulf states condemn Iran’s strikes, but ignore US, Israel attacks
🔹 Iran’s right to self-determination of its future must be respected
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⚔️🇱🇧 Israel strikes Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon
The Lebanese Health Ministry confirms 2 killed and 1 injured in the attack on the Beddawi camp in Tripoli.
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📊 The math Iran is winning: $3M missile vs $50K drone
Iran's use of inexpensive drones puts the US and its allies at an economic disadvantage, with the cost of defense far exceeding the price of attack, The New York Times reported.
"The cost ratio per shot, per interception, is at best 10 to one. But it could be more like 60 or 70 to one in terms of cost, in favor of Iran," the NYT quoted a US drone manufacturer as saying.
📹🇮🇷 Tehran in wartime: Despite frequent US and Israeli strikes, normal life continues in Iran’s capital
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🤝 Iraqi Kurdistan will not be a party to regional conflicts — Barzani
Nechirvan Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Region, pledged his commitment to peace during a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
"The region will not be a party to conflicts and will remain, as always, a factor of peace," he said.
💬 War correspondent explains how to tell when analysts talking about Iran’s losses are lying
“In every war, destroying a launcher is a very popular claim because it implies that the Israelis have reduced future attacks. This is a domestic and international message that ‘we have achieved the main objectives of the military campaign’. But the standard of evidence is another matter,” says Elijah Magnier, prolific journalist and war reporter covering Middle East conflicts since the 80s.
“What is credible is before and after imagery. So showing an identifiable launcher vehicle, and they have to be authentic, not a decoy. And then geolocated strike footage, with clear launcher signature, and [a] pattern of fire decline consistent with launcher attrition,” Magnier explained.
“The Americans and the Israelis can claim that they've hit a ‘suspected’ launch site and they've used this term a lot, which means there is no proof of a launcher present, or there are strikes on empty pads or decoy equipment,” Magnier emphasized.
💥🇱🇧 Israel targets civilian vehicles near Beirut airport
Two consecutive strikes hit the highway leading to Beirut's international airport.
▪️ First attack: a car heading toward the capital.
▪️ Second attack: minutes later, on the opposite side, a vehicle on a secondary road was struck.
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💬 Iran cripples US’ Mideast radar systems through dead sectors – geopolitical analyst
The damage inflicted on US radar installations in the Middle East could result in “the loss beyond line-of-sight connectivity,” political analyst Elijah Magnier tells Sputnik, commenting on Iran’s disruption of America’s key radar stations in the region.
This means that some of those radars should be “completely replaced” because “even a very small partial damage can create dead sectors,” Magnier underlines, adding that the process of replacement is “extremely expensive, limited by the size and the weight” and could last at least a week.
“The eyes and timing of any modern air defense system, radars don't just spot things,” the analyst explains.
🚨🇮🇳 Former Jammu and Kashmir chief burns posters of Trump, Netanyahu and Epstein in protest over US/Israeli operation against Iran and the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei
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🚨Putin explains why surging gas prices on European market not directly related to supplies
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💸🇺🇸🇮🇷 Operation Epic Fury’s cost after five days: $3 BILLION and counting
Brown University’s Costs of War project is tracking the price of the US war against Iran in real time, revealing that it has already cost US taxpayers two and three billion dollars.
🟠 each day that the war continues costs $220M for sustained operations ($9.15M per hour, $2.5k per second)
🟠 50k deployed troops’ salaries = $40M
🟠 aircraft operational costs = $48M
🟠 ordnance = $35M
🟠 naval assets’ operational costs = $22M
🟠 fuel and logistics = $15M
🟠 C&C, reconnaissance, surveillance, cyber and space = $10M
🟠 overhead = $50M
Total ‘discrete costs’: $921M
🟠 the first day’s Tomahawk salvo cost $240M
🟠 the first 3 US fighters shot down cost $270M
🟠 naval forces’ attacks cost $75M
Brown also tallied the economic consequences, including:
🟠 oil prices – up 10.4-11.5%
🟠 Strait of Hormuz shipping – stopped, trapping ~20% of daily global oil transit in the Persian Gulf
🟠 the US stock market – down $1.15-1.5%
The project did not appear to factor in damage to US military bases in the region, including the AN/FPS-132 radar in Al Udeid Air Base, a $1.1B piece of hardware destroyed by Iran on the first day.
Two AN/TPY-2 fire control radars servicing THAAD ($400-500M apiece) destroyed in the UAE also don’t appear to be factored in, nor additional US aircraft lost Wednesday
The Iran war has a way to go to reach spending on the US’s post-9/11 wars ($8T over 20 years), but is already approaching those wars’ per diem average of $300M.
For context, interest on the US’s enormous national debt, soon to reach $39T, is set to reach $1T in 2026.
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🚨🇷🇺🇭🇺 Putin meets with Hungarian Foreign Minister at the Kremlin
Earlier in the day, Peter Szijjarto said he was in Moscow “to make sure that even during the crisis we will still have the oil and natural gas necessary for Hungary's energy security”.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as well as Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov and Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, took part in the meeting with Szijjarto.
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🚨The Strait of Hormuz in hibernation
Analysis confirms a massive drop in tanker activity.
Transits are now sitting ~90% lower than last week.
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