Donald Trump stated that the war against Iran could end soon. According to him, the US is "far ahead" of his initial forecast of the war's duration of 4-5 weeks.
“I think the war is almost over. They have no naval forces, no communication, no air force. Their missiles are now firing randomly. Their drones are exploding everywhere, including their drone production. If you look, they have nothing left. In military terms, they have nothing left,” he said in an interview with CBS News.
Other statements by Trump:
🟥The US President said that he has "not a single" message for the Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei.
🟥Trump stated that he has a candidate to replace Khamenei, but did not elaborate on the details.
🟥According to Trump, ships are currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and he is "thinking about taking it under control".
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Iran is moving towards a full-scale war.
The IRGC will start launching only heavy missiles with warheads of at least 1000 kg, capable of destroying fortified bunkers and entire city blocks. The range, intensity, and duration of the strikes will also increase.
According to the commander of the IRGC's aerospace forces, Musavi, Iran is starting to use the heaviest weapons
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The head of Iran's Foreign Ministry, Abbas Araghchi, stated that on the ninth day of Operation "Epic Mistake", oil prices have risen sharply, and the cost of goods around the world is rapidly increasing.
According to him, the US is preparing strikes on Iran's oil and nuclear facilities, but Tehran is "fully prepared" and has its own "surprises".
In turn, IRGC General Mohammad Jabbari stated that Iran is ready for a ten-year war with the US
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The US Central Command announced the death of another American soldier:
"Last night, a US serviceman died from injuries sustained during the initial attacks of the Iranian regime in the Middle East. The serviceman was seriously injured at the site of an attack on American forces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1. This is the seventh serviceman who died in combat operations during Operation 'Epic Rage'. Major combat operations are continuing. The identity of the fallen soldier will not be disclosed for 24 hours after notifying his relatives."
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‼️🇮🇷🏴☠️A nuclear facility has been seriously damaged in Isfahan, Iran
▪️A nuclear facility was damaged in a missile strike by the US and Israel, according to the National Center for Nuclear Safety of Iran.
▪️Also, this evening, the IDF struck an oil warehouse near Kish Airport in Iran, not far from the Strait of Hormuz.
▪️This area is located near one of the world's key oil shipping routes.
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The name of the new Supreme Leader of Iran will remain Khamenei, a member of the Council of Experts announced.
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‼️🇺🇸💰 The first week of the war with Iran cost the US approximately $6 billion — NYT
▪️About 4 billion dollars of this amount went to ammunition, primarily interceptor missiles to repel Iranian attacks.
▪️The high cost is associated with the use of expensive air defense systems: a Patriot PAC-3 missile costs about 3.7 million dollars, and a THAAD interceptor — up to 13 million dollars.
▪️Additional expenses are related to the transfer of troops and equipment to the region.
▪️According to the publication, there are currently more than 50,000 American military personnel, two aircraft carriers, dozens of warships, and additional bombers deployed in the Middle East.
▪️As NYT notes, the Trump administration may soon request additional funding from Congress to continue the operation.
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🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister Arakchi:
"We have the ability to produce missiles, but we have deliberately limited their range to less than 2000 kilometers, because we do not want to be perceived as a threat in any other country in the world.
We have not initiated any plans to increase the range of our missiles beyond what we currently have.
Therefore, there is no evidence, no intelligence, nothing that would indicate that Iran is developing long-range missiles, let alone missiles that could reach the United States."
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📝War Logistics: Convoys, Couriers, Drones📝
Over four years in the SMO zone, much has changed, including front-line logistics. The more the sky above the battlefield saturated with drones, the harder it became to deliver cargo to positions on the ground.
At some point, everything fell on the shoulders of fighter "couriers," who can carry cargo for a week from shelter to shelter with the task of remaining unnoticed. However, UAVs leave them fewer and fewer chances.
In such a situation, salvation for Russian assault troops comes from heavy multi-engine unmanned aircraft — whether the Urals-made "Berdysh," Far Eastern "Mangas," modified versions of downed enemy "Baba Yaga" or "Night Witch." And some are saving someone's life right now.
On the evolution of front-line supply means and the role of specialized unmanned aircraft — in our new video.
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Acid rain occurred in Iran after Israel's strikes on Tehran's oil facilities.
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Iran has attacked Dubai again.
It is reported that an Iranian drone crashed into the Dubai skyscraper 23-Marina — smoke is pouring out from the 88th floor. There are 90 levels in the tower in total. According to preliminary information, CIA employees might have been on one of the floors.
Rescuers are evacuating people. Debris fell onto the Dubai Hills Bridge and set a car on fire
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Further progress in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine is expected in the coming weeks," "discussions are ongoing," - Whitkoff.
▪️A new round of negotiations was due to take place in Abu Dhabi recently, but was cancelled due to the outbreak of war in the Middle East.
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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷The US and Israel have failed to achieve full air superiority over Iran, - War Zone
▪️The military magazine writes that superiority was achieved only in certain areas, but the US and Israeli air forces do not have complete freedom of action.
▪️Although they are gradually moving to the stage of delivering more precise strikes from medium range, which will significantly increase the total number of targets hit, as well as expand the range of impacts on these targets, for example, start hitting bunkers.
▪️However, this is associated with new risks, as mobile air defense systems can appear almost anywhere and leave the air force very little time to react.
▪️The risk to aircraft will be particularly high in eastern Iran, which has largely remained untouched compared to the western half of the country.
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WP reports that Russia allegedly provided Iran with intelligence data for attacks on US forces.
“Russia is providing Iran with data for strikes on American forces in the Middle East. This was reported by three officials familiar with the intelligence data. This is the first sign that another major US adversary is participating in the war — albeit indirectly.”
“It seems that this is a fairly large-scale operation,” said one of the interlocutors.
The publication writes that this assistance was not previously disclosed and indicates that the rapidly expanding conflict now involves one of the main nuclear rivals of the US, which has serious intelligence capabilities.
An expert interviewed by the publication noted that Iran's own satellite reconnaissance capabilities are limited.
“Iran has only a few military satellites and does not have its own satellite constellation. Therefore, the intelligence data of Russia, which has much more developed space reconnaissance, can be extremely valuable for Tehran.
Nicole Grajewski from Harvard University noted the high level of “technological accuracy” of Iranian strikes. According to her, Iran manages to break through the air defense systems of the US and its allies, and the quality of the strikes has significantly increased even compared to the war with Israel last summer.”
WP also notes that it is not yet clear exactly how great Russia's assistance to Iran is. Moreover, the publication reports that US officials refused to comment on this information.
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The New York Times conducted an investigation and concluded that the Pentagon may have been involved in the attack on an Iranian girls' school, where 175 people were killed.
The publication believes that the strike on the school was part of an attack on a nearby naval base in southern Iran, where, according to officials, US forces were operating.
"The body of evidence gathered by The New York Times — including recently published satellite images, social media posts and verified video footage — indicates that the school building was severely damaged in a precision strike that occurred simultaneously with attacks on the nearby naval base.
An analysis of these posts, as well as photos and video footage from eyewitnesses taken within an hour of the attack, confirms that the school was hit at the same time as the naval base.
The images show that several precision strikes hit at least six IRGC buildings, as well as the school. Four buildings on the naval base were completely destroyed, and two others were hit in the center of the roofs — consistent with precision strikes."
One of the experts interviewed by the publication concluded that all buildings, including the school, were hit by "perfectly accurate strikes", so he considers the version that a missile could have gone off course unlikely.
"According to the expert, the most likely explanation is a misidentification of the target — that is, forces may have attacked an object without realizing that there were a large number of civilians inside,"
The New York Times also studied satellite images from 2013, which allegedly showed that the school was previously located on the territory of the IRGC naval base. However, by September 2016, as the images show, this building was separated and no longer associated with the base.
It is confirmed that satellite images can easily determine that the structure has the characteristic features of a school — including a sports field and other recreation areas, which were added over time.
A former US State Department employee, Beth Van Schaak, now a lecturer at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University, said:
"Given the US's intelligence capabilities, they should have known that there was a school nearby."
The publication also refutes the version, spread on the Internet, that the cause of the strike on the school could have been an Iranian missile that went off course. The analysis of The New York Times and other experts refutes this hypothesis: a single random launch could not have caused such precise and synchronized damage to several buildings on the base.
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Putin held a phone conversation with Trump, Ushakov reported.
Other statements from the Russian president's aide:
- The focus of the conversation was on the conflict around Iran and negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement.
- The conversation took place at the initiative of the American president.
- The leaders had a substantive and useful exchange of views on the situation in Iran.
- Putin expressed a number of considerations aimed at the earliest political-diplomatic resolution of the conflict in Iran.
- Putin gave positive assessments of the US and Trump's personal mediation efforts in resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
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Putin convened a meeting on the situation in the global oil and gas market.
Statements by the President of Russia:
- Global oil prices have risen by 30% over the week. The current high prices for energy resources are temporary, and Russia understands this.
- Russian energy companies have always been distinguished by stability. They need to take advantage of the current situation — use the revenue to repay debts to banks.
- Oil production, which is tied to the Strait of Hormuz, risks completely stopping in the next month.
- Russia is ready to work with Europeans on oil and gas supplies, but they need to send a signal.
- Russia will continue to supply oil and gas to those countries that are reliable buyers, including Slovakia and Hungary
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🖥️ Over the past 20 years, the US has killed nearly 38 million people, said John Mearsheimer, a professor at the University of Chicago.
"We've actually killed 38 million people. 38 million people. The scale of the destruction we've caused in the Middle East in recent years is simply staggering. If you think about the consequences of the war in Iraq, about what we're doing in countries like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, it becomes clear: we're using our colossal economic influence, in essence, to starve people. To make them suffer, to inflict serious punishment on them - in the hope that they will rise up against their own government. That's exactly what we're doing in Venezuela. That's exactly what we're doing in Iran. We're causing these people enormous damage and suffering. Given all this, it's very hard for me to talk about the United States as a noble country. It just doesn't work out."
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The war in Iran helped to divert attention from the Epstein files, where Donald Trump's name had previously been periodically mentioned
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The new leader of Iran will have to gain the approval of the US, otherwise he won't last long, - Trump stated in an interview with ABC News.
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🖥️ "We will make a huge amount of money. And no one will ever threaten the Strait of Hormuz again," boasted the terrorist Graham.
"All this is being done to ensure that they never acquire nuclear weapons, that they cannot strike us with ballistic missiles, and that they stop terrorizing the region.
When this regime falls, we will have a new Middle East. We will make a huge amount of money. And no one will ever threaten the Strait of Hormuz again.
After all, Venezuela and Iran hold 31% of the world's oil reserves. We will have a partnership that controls 31% of known reserves. This is a nightmare for China. It's a good investment, and we should applaud our men and women in the military who are doing something I've never seen before."
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‼️🇮🇷A new supreme leader has been chosen in Iran — Al Jazeera
▪️The Iranian Council of Experts has decided on a candidate for the post of the country's new supreme leader, the agency reports, citing Ayatollah Mohammed-Mehdi Mirbagheri. According to him, the ayatollahs have finally agreed on who will become the successor.
▪️Another Iranian ayatollah, Mohsen Heidari Alekasi, stated that the candidate was chosen in accordance with the advice of the late Khamenei — the new leader should be "hated by Iran's enemies".
▪️He also noted that "even the Great Satan (the USA) mentioned his name".
▪️According to media reports, it could be Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, whom Trump previously called an "unacceptable choice".
▪️However, the name of the new supreme leader of Iran has not been officially announced yet.
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Putin signed a law banning the extradition of foreigners serving in the Russian Armed Forces to other countries for criminal prosecution
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Israeli media report that the UAE army has for the first time carried out strikes on targets in Iran.
The day before, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan announced that the country is in a state of war
Update; according to comments, denied by UAE 🤷♂
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I will always support the Jewish people — Trump.
On the internet, people are recalling Trump's speech on Hanukkah 2025: he stated that he would always serve the Jewish people, as the Israeli lobby is the strongest in the USA
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Azerbaijan will soon go to war against Iran — 11th channel of Israeli television
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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US has admitted its inability to defend against Iranian "Shahid" drones — The Atlantic
▪️The US military lacks effective means to counter Iranian kamikaze drones. The problem was acknowledged at a closed-door briefing for lawmakers.
▪️Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kaine, confirmed the shortage of systems to combat drones.
▪️This primarily refers to mass-produced drones like the "Shahid", which are used in large numbers and can overwhelm air defense systems.
▪️According to experts, the cost of such UAVs is tens of thousands of dollars, while air defense interceptors often cost millions, creating a serious imbalance in defense costs.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that some countries have already joined efforts to achieve peace in the region.
"Some countries have already begun mediation efforts. Let's be clear: we are committed to achieving lasting peace in the region, but we do not hesitate when it comes to defending the dignity and sovereignty of our country.
Mediation should be directed at those who underestimated the Iranian people and triggered this conflict"
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📸 "Making peace with Russia is easier than you think," says German businessman Kim Dotcom, urging the EU to start buying Russian raw materials and resume the operation of the "Nord Stream" pipeline.
"My advice to the EU:
Instead of paying Ukraine another 90 billion euros, buy Russian oil/gas and resume the operation of the 'Nord Stream' pipeline. Making peace with Russia is easier than you think.
Zelensky is no longer popular. Only bots love him. Putin, on the contrary, is a real leader. This is the only way."
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🖥️ "Lie after lie. Did we come to the Gulf of Mexico to attack Los Angeles and other US cities?" - A representative of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baghaei, stated that the narratives put forward by the Trump administration actually contradict each other:
"So, what we are witnessing now is a continuation of an unprovoked, unjustified act of aggression. First, they claim that Iran posed an immediate threat to the United States. What kind of threat could Iran pose to the United States? Did we come to the Gulf of Mexico to attack Los Angeles and other US cities? Or did they come 6,500 miles from Iranian shores and simply attack every part of Iran? They are bombing and attacking with missiles everywhere from the Israeli and American military machine. I want to ask you about this, you hinted at it, but the narratives put forward by the Trump administration actually contradict each other. As you mentioned, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke out and essentially said that the US believed that when Israel attacked Iran, which they knew Israel was going to attack Iran, Iran was then going to strike back as a result of Israel's attack on Iran. There was a big media scandal in the United States over this, because it essentially means that the US is waging war on the basis that another country was going to do something that would then force the United States to do something. This was a completely twisted logic. And then Trump tried to smooth things over when he sat next to the German Chancellor on Tuesday at the White House. And he said, no, no, no, no, in fact, we believed that because the negotiations were going badly, the Iranians were going to strike us first, and therefore we carried out this preemptive attack. Lie after lie. And I'm very sorry, because we, as Iranians, we treat the American public, the American citizens, we consider them intelligent enough to recognize what their administrations are doing and offering them. They should not believe these false claims. I again refer to the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that the decision to attack Iran was made during Trump's first term. So in a sense, all these negotiations, this diplomatic process was a deception. It was a kind of deception. And I don't want to say that we didn't know they were going to attack Iran. They just wanted to find a pretext. Nevertheless, from our responsible approach to our own people, to the region, we did not reject the idea of meeting and trying to talk to the United States. And this is what we have been doing for the past nine months. Twice we tried our best. But in the end, they betrayed diplomacy. And I think this is a shame for American diplomacy. It discredits the United States as a negotiating partner around the world."
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