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17 March 2026 14:49

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his resignation today, citing the ongoing war against Iran.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

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17 March 2026 14:40

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Director of National Economic Council Kevin Hassett:

If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all.

It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now, because we are very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.

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17 March 2026 14:29

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Sirens are sounding in central Israel.

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17 March 2026 14:25

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — Air defense activity over Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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17 March 2026 14:04

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — One Lebanese soldier was killed and four ​were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the city ‌of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, earlier today.

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17 March 2026 13:55

🇮🇷🇸🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Satellite imagery shows a destroyed U.S.-made AN/FPS-117 early-warning radar at Al-Qaysumah Airport in northeastern Saudi Arabia following an Iranian drone strike.

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17 March 2026 13:38

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Iran:

It is absolutely time to bring the Iran War to an end.

It would be in the interest of everybody if this war stops.

The problem with wars is that they are easier to start than to stop, and they always get out of hand.

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17 March 2026 13:37

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on the Strait of Hormuz:

If the U.S. is not putting their ships to keep the navigation routes open, then the question for our member states is the same.

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17 March 2026 13:34

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — The intercepted Iranian ballistic missile was carrying a cluster warhead.

➡️ Several areas in central Israel have been impacted by cluster munitions, causing material damages.

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17 March 2026 13:20

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇱🇧 — Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar:

The Lebanese government committed to dismantling Hezbollah in the November 2024 ceasefire. It didn't do it.

And now, it's not doing anything to stop Hezbollah's attack.

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17 March 2026 13:19

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar:

Larijani was under U.S. sanctions with a $10 million prize on his head.

We did it for free, anyhow.

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17 March 2026 13:04

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes continue to be carried out on Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahieh).

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17 March 2026 12:59

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Sirens are sounding in the Tel Aviv district, central Israel, due to incoming Iranian ballistic missiles.

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17 March 2026 12:35

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has instructed American diplomats worldwide to press governments to take swift action against Iran’s IRGC and Iran-backed groups over an “elevated risk of attack,” according to ABC News.

➡️ The directive, sent to all diplomatic posts, calls for the message to be delivered at the highest levels by March 20.

➡️ It urges countries to increase pressure on Iran, designate groups like Hezbollah as terrorist organizations, and coordinate efforts, potentially with Israel, to weaken Iran’s military and proxy networks.

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17 March 2026 12:22

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump was warned ahead of the war that striking Iran could provoke retaliation against U.S. allies in the Gulf, despite later saying Tehran’s response was surprising, according to Reuters.

➡️ Pre-war intelligence did not guarantee such a reaction but identified it as a likely scenario.

➡️ Officials said Trump had been briefed that any attack on Iran could escalate into a wider regional conflict, including possible strikes on Gulf capitals if Tehran believed those countries supported or enabled U.S. actions.

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17 March 2026 14:46

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

This morning we eliminated Ali Larijani, who was the boss of the Revolutionary Guards, which is the gang of gangsters that effectively runs Iran.

Alongside him, we also eliminated the commander of the Basij — these are the assistants of the gangsters, who spread terror in the streets of Tehran and other cities in Iran against the population

We are undermining the regime in the hope of giving the people an opportunity to remove it.

It will not happen all at once, and it will not be easy. But if we persist, we will give them an opportunity to take their fate into their own hands.

We are helping our American allies in the Gulf. We will assist both indirectly and through direct actions.

There are many more surprises. We will wage war with cunning. We will not reveal all the tricks here, but as I told you, there are many.

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17 March 2026 14:40

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — A single Iranian ballistic missiles was intercepted, according to Israeli media.

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17 March 2026 14:27

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — Alerts in Dubai, UAE.

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17 March 2026 14:24

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — NEW: Iranian ballistic missile launches have been detected towards central Israel.

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17 March 2026 13:58

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump said he spoke with a former U.S. president who told him he regretted not bombing Iran, but aides for all four living former presidents, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, denied any such conversation took place, according to NBC News.

➡️ Advisers for each said they had not been in contact with Trump, and sources indicated none of them were the person he was referring to.

➡️ Trump did not identify the former president, and the White House has not clarified the discrepancy.

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17 March 2026 13:49

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social:

The Save America Act is one of the most IMPORTANT & CONSEQUENTIAL pieces of legislation in the history of Congress, and America itself.

I WILL NEVER (EVER!) ENDORSE ANYONE WHO VOTES AGAINST “SAVE AMERICA!!!”

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17 March 2026 13:38

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Iran:

We are allies with America, but we don’t really understand their moves recently.

We haven't been consulted, and we don't really understand what the objectives of this war are.

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17 March 2026 13:36

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Iran:

The main concern of the European countries is that we were not consulted before starting this war. We were not consulted with the objectives of this war.

The feeling is that this is not Europe’s war.

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17 March 2026 13:27

🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran is estimated to be earning over $140 million per day from oil exports as prices rise above $100 per barrel, according to FT.

➡️ The U.S. is tolerating these shipments to avoid further disruption to global oil markets already shaken by the conflict.

➡️ Since recent U.S.-Israeli strikes, at least 13 supertankers have loaded crude at Iran’s Kharg Island terminal, with about 24 million barrels passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

➡️ Iran is exporting roughly 1.5–1.6 million barrels per day, with most oil going to China, often at discounted prices.

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17 March 2026 13:19

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar:

The regime can only be toppled by the Iranian people, yet without external help, the Iranian people cannot liberate themselves.

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17 March 2026 13:18

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar:

By the way, we still haven’t seen Mojtaba… he should show his face.

He can continue to hide... it's beginning to be embarrassing for this regime.

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17 March 2026 13:02

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — A single Iranian ballistic missile was intercepted over central Israel.

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17 March 2026 12:36

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israel Defense Forces:

Following the elimination of senior figures: the IDF has launched a wide wave of attacks against the infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran.

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17 March 2026 12:27

🇸🇦🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Gulf Arab states did not seek war with Iran but now urge the U.S. to continue until Iran’s military threat to oil routes and regional economies is significantly reduced, Reuters reports.

➡️ At the same time, diplomats say President Trump is pressing Gulf countries to show public support for the U.S.-Israeli campaign to boost its legitimacy.

➡️ After Iranian strikes on airports, ports, energy sites, and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, Gulf leaders see Iran as a direct, ongoing threat.

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17 March 2026 12:19

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A fire aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford burned for more than 30 hours, displacing over 600 sailors and leaving at least two injured, NYT reports.

➡️ The fire began in a laundry space, disrupting living conditions and leaving many crew members without bunks or operational laundry services.

➡️ Already on an extended deployment, the carrier has now spent 10 months at sea and could remain deployed for up to a full year.