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🚨 Drone crash reported south of Baghdad — Sputnik correspondent
A drone crashed in the Al-Ilaam area south of Baghdad, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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📹 IRGC posts video of missile launches toward Israel
Iranian state media Press TV posted a video showing Iranian forces launching two waves of missiles following the appointment of the country’s new Supreme Leader.
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📹 Damage reported in Tel Aviv after Iranian strikes — reports
Footage circulating on social media appears to show damage damaged vehicles, shattered storefront windows and debris scattered across the area.
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🚨🇮🇷 Iran launches Wave 30 of missile and drone strikes — IRGC
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has launched Wave 30 of aerial attacks using Khorramshahr, Fateh and Kheibar missiles, along with strategic drones.
The Guards said the strikes were part of Operation Sadeq Al-Wa’d 4, targeting American bases in the region and northern Israel.
Footage from social media
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🇮🇷 IRGC pledges allegiance to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) congratulated Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei on his election as the new Supreme Leader, according to a statement published by IRNA.
💬 The Guards described the decision by the Assembly of Experts as the start of “a new phase in the revolution and the Islamic Republic,” following the martyrdom of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The IRGC declared its “respect, devotion, and obedience” to the new leader and said it stands ready for “full obedience and self-sacrifice” in carrying out the orders of the Supreme Leader.
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🗣 Ukraine can’t help US beat Iranian drones – military analyst
🟠 Speculations about some kind of a deal involving Ukraine supplying anti-drone tech to the US are laughable because Ukraine simply doesn’t have anything the US might need, military analyst Ivan Konovalov tells Sputnik.
🟠 Claims that Ukraine might send its personnel to the Middle East to help the US combat Iranian drones also do not hold water.
💬 “All these words are not backed by reality. It’s just mutual lies and attempts to save face amid the changing geopolitical situation,” Konovalov remarks.
💬 “The US was taught this lesson previously in Vietnam, and now history repeats itself.”
🗣 War against Iran could be catastrophic for environment in Persian Gulf — expert
📍 Any incident involving a large number of oil tankers in the Hormuz Strait could lead to a massive oil spill, potentially causing serious pollution to the marine ecosystem of the Persian Gulf, president of the Lebanese environmental association "Earth", Paul Abi Rached, tells Sputnik.
💬 "This is not only about marine pollution but also about the global crisis of biodiversity loss," he says, adding that wars disrupt environmental protection mechanisms and destroy natural habitats.
💬 "If the military escalation in the Persian Gulf region continues for an extended period, the environmental risks could become extremely serious," he concludes.
📹Iranian news agency Mehr has published a video showing a direct hit on a girls’ school in Minab during US-Israeli strikes on Feb 28
At least 171 children were killed in the attack.
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🇮🇷Iran controls borders & is prepared for possible US-Israeli invasion — official
🔊Iranian authorities control the country’s borders and are prepared for a possible ground invasion by US and Israeli forces, head of the Iranian government’s Information Council Elias Hazrati said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 US-Israel war against Iran: Day-by-day
Explore our map tracing the key developments that unfolded across the region on March 6 👆
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❗️❗️❗️Aftermath of Israeli strike on southern Lebanon's Al-Ghaziyah
A four-story building was destroyed in the latest attack on the town.
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🔥 Shahran oil depot in Tehran after last night’s strike — fires continue to burn as thick black smoke blankets the sky
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🚨🇳🇴Explosion outside US embassy in Oslo may be linked to Middle East tensions
An explosion occurred outside the US embassy in Oslo on Sunday, Norwegian police said.
Authorities said the incident may be connected to the current security situation, including heightened tensions in the Middle East, and could have deliberately targeted the embassy, police spokesperson Frode Larsen said.
No suspects have been identified so far.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
◻️ Russian troops struck the launch sites of long-range Ukrainian attack drones
◻️ Air defense superiority: 13 HIMARS projectiles and 180 drones were shot down
◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,255 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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📈 Gas prices can skyrocket to $1.5K per thousand cubic meters due to Iran war — expert
💬 "With gas, prices of $1,000 and even $1,500 per thousand cubic meters are quite possible. We’ve seen such prices in 2021, 2022, and 2023. There is nothing fantastic about it," Russia’s Financial University expert Igor Yushkov says.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Ending Iran war will be ‘mutual’ decision with Netanyahu — Trump
US President Donald Trump said the timing of ending the war with Iran will be decided jointly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to The Times of Israel.
💬 “I think it’s mutual… We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” Trump told the outlet.
🚨🇺🇸 US National Guard soldier dies during medical emergency in Kuwait — CENTCOM
A US National Guard soldier died during a medical emergency in Kuwait on March 6, CENTCOM said.
This brings the US death toll in the US-Israeli war on Iran to eight.
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📹 Missile fragments seen in Beitar Illit settlement — reports
Footage circulating on social media appears to show fragments from an Iranian missile lying on the ground in the Beitar Illit settlement near the West Bank.
The debris was seen in the area following the latest missile launches.
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🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran launches missile strike toward Israel — reports
Iran launched a missile strike toward Israel, Iranian media reported, describing it as the first such attack under the country’s new Supreme Leader.
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🚨🇮🇷Military Command warns Iran will strike oil industry assets across the Middle East in response to US-Israeli attacks on its energy infrastructure
The warning follows recent strikes on the Shahran oil depot in Tehran, a key fuel storage site supplying the capital, where large fires and thick black smoke were reported after the facility was hit.
Meanwhile, a video circulating online shows gasoline pipelines exploding on Shahran Boulevard in Tehran after Israeli strikes hit fuel infrastructure.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 US & Israel plot special forces op to seize Iran's enriched uranium - report
💬 "The US and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war," Axios reports, citing sorces close to the matter.
⚖️ World has effectively lost international law - Kremlin
🔶 The global system is entering a period of deep instability, where long-standing rules and institutions are increasingly losing their meaning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media.
🔶 According to him, the growing number of regional conflicts and unresolved crises is producing a cumulative political and economic shock worldwide.
Key statements:
🔸 The world has effectively lost the system commonly referred to as international law, making it difficult to call on anyone to follow its norms
🔸 While international law formally remains in place, he noted that no one can clearly define what rules are replacing it in practice
🔸 Numerous regional conflicts and unresolved issues are creating a cumulative effect that is already producing serious economic and political consequences
🔸 In this environment Russia should focus on strengthening its own interests and capabilities
🔸 The current turmoil may feel dramatic, but humanity has faced worse in history
🔸 Ukraine’s halt of Russian oil transit via the Druzhba pipeline could ultimately harm European economies
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🚨🇮🇷Strikes on Iran’s oil depots amount to CHEMICAL WARFARE against civilians - Iranian FM spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei
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🚨🇮🇷Iran will not allow the United States or any other country to interfere in the process of selecting a new supreme leader - Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
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📹'Hands off Iran': Anti-war marches sweep New York, Washington and Chicago as hundreds rally against US-Israeli strikes and demand diplomacy amid rising Middle East tensions.
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💸 First week of war with Iran cost US $6B — NYT
🔶 The first seven days of the conflict with Iran has already cost the United States around $6 billion, Pentagon officials told Congress, according to the New York Times.
🔶 About $4 billion of that total went on munitions, largely interceptors used to shoot down Iranian missiles.
🔶Israeli and US forces have reportedly struck roughly 4,000 targets across Iran, including ballistic missile sites, military headquarters and naval facilities.
🔶Despite the large-scale air campaign, US officials told Congress in closed briefings that Iran still retains about half of its missile arsenal and a significant share of its drones.
🔶 Republicans expect the administration to request additional funding from Congress as the war continues.
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🚨 Putin on Ukraine-EU relations: 'The tail is wagging the dog'
The Ukrainian crisis emerged because the West supported the coup in Ukraine in 2014, the Russian president said.
He added that today, Europe is reaping what it sowed in Ukraine: Europeans can't help but notice Ukraine's energy blackmail, but they're silencing each other.
💬 "It looks like the tail is wagging the dog, not the other way around," Vladimir Putin stressed.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 US targets Iran in bid to conquer Middle East – Iranian affairs expert
🗣 The US’ insistence on having a say in the election of Iran’s supreme leader highlights the fact that Washington simply does not understand how Iran operates, and vastly underestimates the Islamic republic, Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs expert Farkhad Ibragimov tells Sputnik.
📍 To be fair, Ibragimov notes, the US has a long history of overestimating its own capabilities and underestimating its chosen victims: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, etc.
👉 As for the US’ fixation on Iran, it essentially stems from the fact that this large country is located “on a crossroads between Europe and Asia.”
💬 “A large number of logistical routes linking Russia, Iran and India pass through Iran,” Ibragimov explains. “Iran is one of Eurasia’s most important hubs where major logistical routes are intertwined.”
💬 “But the ultimate target of this US program for conquering the Middle East is Iran,” he points out.
💵📈 Oil market is paying for fear with price spike — expert
💬 "The current leap of Brent above $90 per barrel is, first and foremost, a geopolitical 'risk premium,' not a reflection of a new fundamental reality of supply and demand… The market is now paying not for a shortage of physical oil, but for the fear of possible disruptions," Doctor of Economics Igbal Guliyev tells Sputnik.
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️ 🇮🇷US-Israel-Iran conflict: key developments
🔹 The US has "destroyed all of Iran's military aircraft and 44 ships," US President Donald Trump said
🔹 Iran is responsible for the deadly attack on an elementary school in Minab, the US president stated
🔹 Iran struck over 200 targets within US and Israeli bases and installations, the IRGC said
🔹 Iran's defensive operations are aimed at targets that are the sources of attacks by the US and Israel, Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani stated
🔹 Concentrations of American troops at the US base in Arifjan, Kuwait, have been hit by Iran, per the IRGC public affairs office
🔹 Iran will not give up an inch of its territory, will disrupt the sleep of the country's ill-wishers while defending its territorial integrity, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said
🔹 If the war continues, there will be neither the opportunity to sell oil nor the capacity to produce it, speaker of Iran’s parliament Mohammad Ghalibaf warned
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