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🇮🇷 Mourners in Tehran chant "Death to Israel and America"
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🇺🇸Trump outlines US objectives in operation against Iran: destroy missile capabilities, annihilate their navy, prevent nuclear weapons
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🇮🇷President Pezeshkian: US-Israel strikes on hospitals and schools violate humanity
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🇮🇷💔Iranian media release a symbolic photo: 165 graves for girls killed in the Minab school attack after the US-Israeli strike, with victims aged 7 to 12
"Trump's gift to the people of Iran" in the caption.
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran, US and Israel hit hard: Latest reports from the conflict zone
◻️ An attack on the Iranian capital Tehran hit a children's playground in a park
◻️ The Iranian Red Crescent reports that 131 cities have been hit, with 555 people killed
◻️ The Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that the Natanz nuclear facility was targeted in recent attacks
◻️ The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has launched its 11th wave of missile attacks on Israel under operation True Promise Four
◻️ The IRGC claimed it hit Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s office this morning. Netanyahu appeared unharmjed as he arrived in Beit Shemesh
◻️ The wife of the Iranian supreme leader died of injuries she suffered in attacks over the weekend
◻️ The US Central Command reported three US F-15 fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait by ‘friendly fire’
◻️ The US Embassy in Bahrain has closed, with the US Embassy in Kuwait also shut down
◻️ Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone conversations with the Emirati president, Qatari emir, Bahraini king and Saudi crown prince to discuss the developments in the Middle East
◻️ Moscow remains in constant contact with Iranian leaders, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said
◻️ The Russian Foreign Ministry has called for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the war
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🚨 Trump: 'Big wave' of US bombing of Iran still to come
📍 The US is "knocking the crap" out of Iran but the "big wave" of attacks is yet to come, President Donald Trump told CNN.
💬 “I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful,” Trump said. “We’ve got the greatest military in the world and we’re using it.”
💬 “We haven’t even started hitting them hard,” Trump said. “The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.”
🇷🇺🇸🇦 Putin and Saudi Crown Prince discuss escalating Middle East war
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
They discussed the escalating conflict in the Middle East following US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
Key points:
🔶 The leaders focused on the worsening situation in the region due to US and Israeli bombing of Iran
🔶 Putin stressed the need for diplomacy to resolve the dangerous situation in the Middle East
🔶 Both Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed voiced concern over the potential for the conflict to spread across the region
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🇫🇷 France to expand nuclear arsenal – Macron
📍 France will increase its nuclear arsenal and reinforce its deterrent posture as global instability raises the risk of nuclear war, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday in a speech from the Ile Longue submarine base in Brittany.
Key statements:
🟠 Macron said the world is entering a period of geopolitical upheaval fraught with risk, requiring a “hardening” of the French nuclear deterrent
🟠 He described a new phase of French nuclear policy as “forward deterrence”
🟠 Decision-making authority over nuclear weapons will remain solely with the French president
🟠 The UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden and Denmark will join France’s new “advanced nuclear doctrine”
🟠 Under some circumstances, deployment of strategic weapons among allies would be possible
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🇷🇺🇧🇭 Putin and Bahraini King urge immediate halt to Middle East war
📍 Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with King Hamad of Bahrain, who currently chairs the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Kremlin press service said.
Key statements
🟠 The two leaders stressed the need for a ceasefire in the Middle East to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control
🟠 Putin reaffirmed Russia’s readiness to help stabilize the situation in the region
🟠 Putin and King Hamad agreed to stay in contact
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📹 Watch: Extensive damage to Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital following US-Israeli attack
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🇮🇷 Iranian medical workers provide care to children injured in US-Israeli attack on Tehran
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🛰 "The sound of aircraft flying overhead can still be heard": Sputnik reports from Tehran amid missile strikes
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🇺🇸Hegseth says Operation Epic Fury is laser-focused
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🇺🇸Hegseth says the escalation with Iran is not a regime-change war
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🇺🇸Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Operation “Epic Fury,” ordered by President Donald Trump, was the most lethal and precise air campaign in history — declaring, “We didn’t start this war, but we are finishing it.”
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🇺🇸🪖 US could use RAF base for Iran strikes – report
British PM Keir Starmer’s decision to let the US use UK bases to strike Iranian missile depots is related to the “bases at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands, and RAF Fairford,” US media reports.
👉 Starmer earlier announced that he would allow US “defensive” missions aimed at destroying Iranian missile capabilities, as he cited America’s request to use UK bases “for that specific and limited purpose.”
The UK had previously refused to allow the US to use British bases to bomb Iran.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Were US-Iran talks just a cover for sneak attack?
Western media speculate that the war on Iran was planned, with Washington's nuclear energy talks with Tehran just a ruse.
💬 This assault, in the middle of a second negotiation process, must torpedo the chances of the Iranian regime ever taking a US offer of talks seriously," Guardian diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour wrote. "They have been stung twice."
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"We negotiated with the United States twice in the past 12 months, and in both cases, they attacked us in the middle of negotiation," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi told ABC News. "That has become a very bitter experience for us."
🇺🇸🇮🇷 How America’s ‘War on Terror’ shaped Iran’s Mosaic defense doctrine
💬 “Mosaic defense is a long-standing Iranian strategy, adopted in the 2000s amid the US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and the onset of the first crisis around Iran’s nuclear program,” says veteran Russian military observer Yury Lyamin.
🎥🎥 Trump's Statement on Iran
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🚨🇮🇷 Iranian forces fire new missiles at US bases in the region
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🗣 US strikes on Iran could ‘erode America's economy’ – expert
💬 "The economic consequences of the escalating conflict are felt both regionally and globally,” Turkish economics expert Hakan Topkurulu tells Sputnik, commenting on the US–Israeli strikes on Iran.
💬 “Turning the Indian Ocean and the adjacent trade routes into a combat zone could bring global trade to a standstill,” Topkurulu warns.
🇮🇷🔥 Latest Iranian barrage: Over 700 drones and hundreds of missiles target US and Israeli forces
◻️ The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the 11th wave of its True Promise Four operation: acombined, large-scale strike by the IRGC’s navy and air force targeting US and Israeli bases on the third day of the war on Iran.
◻️ US information centers and supply depots in the Persian Gulf, the Israeli army communications network in Be’er Sheva and over 20 targets in Tel Aviv, West Jerusalem and Galilee were hit.
◻️ Since the start of the war on Saturday, Iranian forces have attacked 60 strategic targets and 500 US and Israeli positions, launching over 700 drones and hundreds of missiles – surpassing the number during last-year’s 12-day war in just the last 48 hours.
◻️ The IRGC said the brutal US and Israeli attacks against defenseless Iranian civilians – including attacks on hospitals, schools and civilian infrastructure – have only strengthened Iran’s resolve to wage a total war against its enemies.
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💸 Away from US dollars and bonds: Why investors and central banks hoard gold in Gulf war
📍 Gold futures jumped three percent to about $5,400 a troy ounce on March 2 – what's behind the rally?
💬 "Whenever there is uncertainty around the world, a simple logic of an investor is that I want to pull out my money from risky assets and I want to put it in asset classes which are safer," Rachana Ranade, a prominent Indian Chartered Accountant, tells Sputnik. "And gold is the obvious choice, be it individual investors or even governments."
💬 "If we are able to sustain above $5,420 for next two, three days, and if the war situation keeps on going like it is right now, it may start moving closer to 5,600," Ranade says.
💬 "And that very clearly suggests that the theme of de-dollarization is slowly but steadily accelerating."
🚨 ISNA: US Embassy in Bahrain has announced its closure
Earlier, reports said the US Embassy in Kuwait was also closed
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🛰 Sputnik correspondent captures Israeli warplanes striking multiple buildings in southern Beirut
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🇺🇸Hegseth: There are NO American boots on the ground in Iran, but warns the US will "go as far as we need to go"
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🗣 Iranian targeting information is good, exploits US weaknesses: former Pentagon analyst to Sputnik
🔶 "Three weaknesses of all US wars of the past 30 years are dependence on complex centrally managed war management systems, just in time logistics models for very expensive munitions, missiles and platforms, and of course an assumption that if the wars are short, painless and without economic impact back home, foreign and domestic morale and politics are easily managed," said retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski.
🔶 "The IRGC has planned for the one thing the US and Israel cannot handle, and that is a multidimensional defensive war that cost effectively can create and sustain serious tiered costs for the US/Israeli and their allies."
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🚨🇮🇷Ayatollah Khamenei’s wife succumbs to injuries from US–Israeli attack - reports
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🇺🇸Hegseth to Iran: If you threaten Americans, we will hunt you down and kill you
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🤔 Why Strait of Hormuz closure could strike back at US economy
It could destabilize the US economy now that more countries start to clinch trade deals in national currencies, “accelerating the US to a process of decadence that may make it difficult to remain in global leadership in the future,” Brazilian political scientist Domenique Marques tells Sputnik.
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