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🚨⚔️ Clashes erupt as Israeli forces launch incursion in Bekaa
Israeli forces carried out a ground incursion into the town of Nabi Sheet in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, where clashes with Hezbollah fighters were reported, according to Lebanese media.
Local outlets said Israeli special forces attempted a helicopter air assault on the eastern mountain ridge of the Bekaa Valley under the cover of combat aircraft.
A firefight reportedly broke out with Hezbollah units, after which Israeli troops withdrew from the area, several Lebanese sources said. Other reports on social media claim the fighting may still be ongoing.
Meanwhile, Israeli media confirmed a “serious incident” involving a group of soldiers in Lebanon, without providing further details.
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🚨 Airstrikes hit Tehran, explosions reported
Iranian media report sounds of explosions in western and eastern parts of Tehran, the country’s capital.
📹 Footage circulating online appears to show blasts during airstrikes targeting the city.
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🚨🇷🇺 US may ease sanctions on Russian oil during Middle East conflict — Bessent
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US may further relax restrictions on Russian oil to help stabilize global supply during the current US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
💬 “We may unsanction other Russian oil,” Bessent said, adding the Treasury is considering steps to release “hundreds of millions of sanctioned barrels… on the water” to bring relief to the market.
🗣 No words of sympathy were spoken for the killing of Iranian schoolgirls - MFA slams lack of proper response from the West
💬 "The monstrosity of the situation lies both in the very fact of the aggression, the colossal number of victims in these very first days, and the lack of an adequate response from those who are killing innocent people," MFA Spox Maria Zakharova told Sputnik
💬 US-Israeli efforts to degrade Iran’s missile might failed – military researcher
The intensity of Iranian missile attacks against the US and Israeli assets in the Middle East does not seem to abate, despite the United States’ claims to the contrary, Konstantin Sivkov, a member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, tells Sputnik.
Despite losing a number of its missile launchers, as is expected during war, Iran has been successfully destroying US radar systems, satellite communication stations and data processing facilities in the region.
“Iran is striking at the target designation system – the brains, the decision making system, the early warning system,” Sivkov remarks.
📹 US strikes Iranian drone carrier at sea — CENTCOM
US Central Command said its forces struck an Iranian drone carrier, which it described as “roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier.”
💬 “Today, an Iranian drone carrier… was struck and is now on fire,” CENTCOM said on X.
🇭🇺 'We will win by force' - Orban blasts Zelensky's threats
💬 "I will not make any pact, there will be no compromise, we will defeat them. We will break the oil blockade. We will force the Ukrainians to restart the shipments," Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said.
📹🔥 More footage shows fire at US Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait
A video circulating online appears to show a spreading fire at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, a facility hosting US forces, after reports of an Iranian drone strike on the base.
Footage from social media
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🚨 Iran war casualties: latest figures
As of March 5, casualties include 1,230 dead in Iran, including 168 girls killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Minab on February 28.
Casualties were also reported in several other countries across the Middle East amid the latest escalation.
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🇮🇷💥📡 Iranian strikes hit key US missile-defense radar sites — reports
Satellite imagery suggests Iranian attacks damaged US-made radar systems linked to THAAD missile defenses in the Middle East, according to CNN.
CNN reported that a THAAD radar site at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan appears to have been struck and likely destroyed, while buildings housing similar radar systems in the UAE were also hit.
💬 “The AN/TPY-2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery,” munitions expert N.R. Jenzen-Jones told CNN, adding that losing one would be “an operationally significant event.”
📹 Cuba's next — Trump calls it ‘a question of time’
President Donald Trump suggested that the situation in Cuba could follow developments in Iran.
💬 “We want to finish this one first… but that will be just a question of time before you… are going to be going back to Cuba,” Trump said.
📹 Trump urges Iranian forces to surrender
President Donald Trump called on members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, military, and police to lay down their arms amid the ongoing US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
💬 “Accept immunity. We’ll give you immunity… or you’ll face absolutely guaranteed death,” Trump claimed.
🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iranian missiles head toward Tel Aviv
Circulating footage filmed over Nablus appears to show Iranian missiles heading toward Tel Aviv during an ongoing attack.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 IDF kills Hezbollah firepower commander in Beirut — statement
The Israeli military said its air force carried out a strike in the Beirut area that killed Zaid Ali Jama'a, whom it described as the Hezbollah official responsible for managing the group’s firepower and artillery in southern Lebanon.
💬 “As part of his role, Jama'a was in charge of launching thousands of rockets, missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles towards the State of Israel from Lebanese territory,” the IDF said on X.
🟠 US and Israeli claims of depleted Iranian arsenals are just military propaganda – expert
🟠 IRAN’S HYPERSONIC MIGHT: What is known of the missiles that ignore Israeli defenses?
🟠 From attack to retaliation: Key stages of Iran war
🟠 Strait of Hormuz: key facts
🟠 Lavrov: Russia haven't seen security guarantees that Zelensky is talking about
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🚨 Iranian missiles strike Tel Aviv
Circulating footage appears to show Iranian missiles in the sky over Tel Aviv, with reports of direct hits in the city, according to local media.
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📹 Red Crescent rescuers and firefighting teams provide aid and searching for their compatriots following US-Israeli strikes on residential areas of Tehran
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📹 Drone strike hits US-linked company site in Basra — Sputnik correspondent
A drone targeted the US-linked company KPR in the Al-Burgesia company complex in Iraq’s Zubair district, causing a fire and property damage, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
No casualties were reported.
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🇺🇸 📉 US runs out of money, overwhelmed by Iran’s resistance — report
As the war with Iran proves far from a walk in the park, the Pentagon is set to ask US Congress for more funding to acquire additional weapons, The Wall Street Journal reports.
💬 "The new funding would support the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk, and THAAD missile systems, which have been heavily used since the US and Israel began their strikes," the outlet states.
💥🇮🇷 Hadid-110: Iran’s kamikaze drone with superior capabilities
Iran's fastest unmanned combat aerial vehicle, the jet-powered Hadid-110, is a stealth platform designed to neutralize enemy's air defense, radars, command nodes, and key military infrastructure.
Designed for deep strikes into hostile territory, it minimizes detection opportunities and reduces the reaction time for maximum battlefield impact.
The specifics below highlight its exceptional performance:
✅ Speed: around 510 km/h
✅ Warhead: 30-kg high-explosive fragmentation warhead
✅ Navigation: GPS/GLONASS, inertial navigation system
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👤 Deepfake deception: AI, disinfo, and the battle for perception fueling the Iran war
Beyond the physical battlefield, Israel and the United States are also waging an online war, flooding social media with AI-generated content and fake news reports.
Here are the top fabrications of the war:
🟠 Burj Khalifa ablaze: On March 2, Telegram channels began circulating videos purporting to show the world’s tallest skyscraper engulfed in flames. The clips depicted the blaze at various times of day and on different levels of the building, but the footage was entirely fabricated
🟠 AI-created downed drones: The sides are employing artificial intelligence to "boost" the enemy’s casualties count, for instance the case of a phony "downed" MQ-9 Reaper drone, which was later exposed as a fake
🟠 Strikes on aircraft carriers: Footage purporting to show attacks on a US naval group near Iran has been exposed as either AI-generated or lifted from video games. The most ludicrous case featured a Soyuz-2.1a rocket striking a Japanese World War II-era battleship
🟠 The Kurdish offensive that wasn't: On March 4, reports from Fox News and the Associated Press claimed that Iraqi Kurdish groups had launched a ground offensive against Iran. The story was swiftly denied by Aziz Ahmad, Deputy Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan
🟠 Phony city bombardments: While both sides have continued to exchange strikes, a major portion of the photos and videos circulating online that show these attacks are AI-generated forgeries
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🚨 Hezbollah warns Israeli residents to leave border towns
Hezbollah issued a warning calling on Israeli residents to evacuate border towns within a 5-kilometer range of the border.
The warning was accompanied by a map marking the affected areas along the frontier.
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❌ US House rejects effort to stop war with Iran — reports
The US House of Representatives voted 212–219 to reject a war powers resolution that would have forced the US to withdraw from its aggression against Iran unless Congress formally authorized military action.
The measure, introduced by Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna, was largely defeated along party lines. It followed a similar proposal that the Senate also rejected earlier in the week, The Guardian reported.
Supporters of the resolution argued that the US Constitution requires congressional approval before entering a military conflict.
💬 “The 1973 War Powers Resolution states plainly that the president may only introduce US armed forces into hostilities” under specific conditions, Massie said, adding that “none of those conditions exist today.”
💬 “We have no concrete justification for why we are putting American troops in harm’s way and spending billions of dollars on a foreign war,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.
🔊🇵🇰 Pakistan’s MoD advisor highlights Iran’s advantages in conflict with US and Israel
The ongoing conflict with Iran is a war of attrition, and Tehran holds certain advantages in it, according to Dr. Maria Sultan, an advisor to Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence.
In an interview with Sputnik, she stated that US assets are "measurable, visible, and extremely costly — even when used for defense."
However, Sultan also acknowledged that the success of US and Israel in taking out senior Iranian officials suggested a intelligence failure on Tehran’s part.
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📹 Israel strikes the southern suburbs of Beirut
The IDF has launched airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, hitting several targets, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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💥 Iranian drone strikes US air base in Kuwait - reports
An Iranian drone struck the US Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwai, local media reported.
The NASA FIRMS satellite fire-tracking system detected a significant thermal anomaly inside the base area following the reported strike.
Footage from social media
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📹 ‘We want to fight now more than they do’ — Trump on Iran
President Donald Trump claimed it was “a little bit late" for negotiations.
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🇮🇷 'We don't see any reason why we should negotiate with the US' - Araghchi
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⚠️🇺🇸🇰🇼 US Embassy in Kuwait suspends operations
The US State Department announced the suspension of operations at the US Embassy in Kuwait City, according to a statement released on March 5.
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🚨Strait of Hormuz: key facts
It’s the only maritime route providing an outlet from the Persian Gulf to the world's oceans.
✅ Length: ~167 km
✅ Narrowest point width: ~ 33 km
✅ LNG trade: >30%
✅ Oil & petroleum trade: ~ 20%
✅ Vessels passing daily before war: 200-300
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