US-IRAN War. Ayatollah Khamenei killed. Iranian missiles and drones all over Middle East. Iran closes Strait of Hormuz

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How US and Israel kill Ayatollah K.

last late breakfast at the start of ramadan? they were probably gorging on a buffet spread knowing the commoners were fasting. the feast was called “kaboom!”

 

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Commercial port in Oman targeted in drone attack - state news​

published at 16:42​

Image source,UGC
Image caption,
Smoke was filmed rising over the Port of Duqm
In Oman, a fuel tank at the Port of Duqm has been targeted in a drone attack, according to the country's state news agency.

"The resulting damage was brought under control without any human casualties being recorded," an unnamed security source is cited as saying.

The same port was targeted by drones over the weekend. One worker was injured, according to reports.

In nearby Qatar, production of liquefied ⁠natural gas was halted on Monday - about a fifth of global supply - after Iranian attacks on some of its facilities. Saudi Arabia also suspended production at its largest domestic refinery.

Oman has been a key mediator for years in US-Iran talks - the most recent of which took place in the country last month, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi describing the mediated discussions as a "good beginning".

 

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Tehran residents describe life under bombardment to CNN​

By Chris Lau and Leila Gharagozlou

Plumes of smoke rise following reported explosions in Tehran on Tuesday.
Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
Residents of Iran’s capital tell CNN of how they are hunkering down through bombardments from US and Israeli strikes.

“Every moment I’m expecting to hear a sound of explosion. I don’t know where a new location will be hit,” Abas Aslani, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies, told CNN’s Elex Michaelson.

Another Tehran resident described enduring a “heavy bombardment” on Monday night.

“It felt like an onslaught,” said the 36-year-old man, who CNN is not naming.

“Then it stopped and but just a little bit ago we heared explosions but that seems to have stopped as well. They are hitting everywhere, it’s much more intense this time around,” they said, referring to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran last year.

People are also worried about what is to come after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, said Aslani.

“Everybody is asking a question: What could be the future direction?” he said, adding that many fear Iran could plunge into the kind of civil conflict seen in places like Syria and Libya in the past.

“This instability is not welcome by the majority of the people even if they might be angry with the economic conditions or with the government,” Aslani said.

He added people will “not be willing to see a foreign intervention,” saying that “foreign aggression creates a rally around the flag.”

“So the assumption that Iran is that weak is not correct. And even the assumption that maybe the US is that strong might not be correct as well, so this has created a miscalculation that we’re seeing this escalation,” he said.

 

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Every part of Tehran has been hit, journalist in Iranian capital tells BBC​

Image source,Reuters

"This is a systematic attack on not just the military but civilians," journalist Mohammad Khatibi tells BBC World Service from inside Iran.

He says "every part" of the capital, Tehran, has been hit by US and Israeli strikes since the conflict erupted on Saturday.

This includes communication towers, broadcasting stations and the city's Grand Bazaar, which Khatibi says has been "reduced to rubble".

Asked what the reaction has been to the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - killed in US-Israeli strikes - Khatibi says there were "small groups" of people celebrating but there's been no large-scale unrest.

He also says that due to strikes on military and police installations - which typically respond to such unrest - he believes "separatists and opposition groups outside of Iran" will soon call for demonstrations similar to what Iran saw in January - which saw thousands killed.

"This [regime change] was the plan all along," Khatibi claims. "The nuclear issue I think it was just the excuse."

• A reminder: International news organisations are often refused visas to Iran, which severely limits their ability to gather information there.

 

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BBC Persian

US has enough weapons stocked for 'forever' war, Trump says​

published at 13:59​

"We have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.

In his latest remarks, he also accuses his predecessor Joe Biden of providing Ukraine with "so much of the super high end"

At the end of his four-year term, Biden had allowed Ukraine to use powerful long-range ATACMS missile

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...flipping prata !!... in 48 DAYS the US will run out of ammo... no more rare minerals for production... then he'll blame Joe Biden for starting the Ukraine-Russia war..

 

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Israeli military says it has hit Iran's presidential office​

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published at 18:07​

We're seeing an update from the Israeli military, which says its air force has struck the Iranian regime's leadership compound.

In a statement on Telegram, the IDF says "numerous munitions" were dropped on the Presidential Office and the Supreme National Security Council.

It adds that a military training institution and "additional key regime infrastructure" were also hit.

Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the compound, the IDF says. Khamenei was killed at his own compound over the weekend in US-Israeli strikes.

 

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War expert warns of 'very serious shortages' in interceptor munitions if fighting continues another week​

By Charlotte Reck

US President Donald Trump sits at a table monitoring military operations during Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Monday.
The White House/X/Anadolu/Getty Images

As the military objectives of the United States and Israel appear to be shifting, uncertainty is setting in regarding the missile capabilities of Iran, according to The Economist’s defense editor.

Shashank Joshi told CNN’s Becky Anderson a short while ago that recent messaging from US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has changed since the strikes began on Saturday.

“The war aims were framed not as President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu framed them three days ago, in terms of setting the stage for the Iranian people to rise up and sweep away this regime, but they framed them much more narrowly in terms of Iran’s missile capabilities,” he explained.

But the security expert said the US and Israel are likely to maximize hindrance to Iran’s war effort by attacking at every point of the Iranian operation.

“We will see a sustained effort to go after not just Iranian missiles and Iranian missile launchers but also, and this is very important, the supply chain for those missiles,” Joshi predicted.

The journalist emphasized that, by design, no one knows the capacity of the interceptor stockpile any nation started this conflict with. “But my supposition is that, after about sort of another week of this, we would begin to see very, very serious shortages, particularly of the most high-end interceptor munitions,” he added.

 

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Satellite images show Iranian nuclear complex damaged​

published at 18:53​

By Paul Brown

BBC Verify has reviewed satellite imagery of new damage to Iran’s nuclear complex at Natanz.

The images, published by intelligence company Vantor on Monday, show three buildings within the complex in central Iran have been hit.

Vantor’s analysis states they were linked to "personnel and vehicle entrances to the underground fuel enrichment complex".

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made a similar assessment, adding that "no radiological consequence [is] expected".

The latest imagery also shows existing damage from a US air strike last year when several Iranian nuclear sites were targeted in a US operation called Midnight Hammer.

 

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End goal is to "cripple" Iran's Islamic regime, says former IDF soldier​

By Charlotte Reck

Iran's judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, left, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a jurist member of the Guardian Council, form the new leadership council of Iran in this handout image released on Sunday.
Press TV
The “end goal” of the Israeli government is to “cripple” the Islamic regime in Iran, a former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier has told CNN.

“The end goal at this stage is to try to cripple,” Miri Eisin told CNN’s Elex Michaelson earlier. “That doesn’t mean demolish, but to cripple the capabilities the Islamic regime have in Iran.”

The Israeli population is largely supportive of its government’s collaborative operation with the United States across the Middle East, according to the retired colonel.

“The bulk of Israelis support this,” she said. “I would say even a change of government in Israel would not change the way that we feel about this Islamic regime’s threat.”

Eisin, who is currently sheltering with her sister in Tel Aviv, also described a national appreciation for US President Donald Trump, saying he is “overwhelmingly popular” in Israel.

Unlike Israel, US voters have largely expressed disapproval of the Trump administration’s military action in Iran, citing little desire to be engaged in conflict abroad.

But Eisin said Israeli voters find Trump’s foreign policy favorable.

 

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Coming from John Mearsheimer who supports the use of military force by the US, it means something!

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Trump administration claims Iran had '11 bombs-worth' of enriched uranium​

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published at 04:14​

Daniel Bush
Washington correspondent

Iran possessed “11 bombs-worth” of enriched uranium at the start of the war, and could have turned it into weapons-grade nuclear material in as little as one week, senior Trump administration officials say.

Speaking to reporters in a call on Tuesday, officials say Iran’s stockpile consisted of 10,000kg of enriched uranium, of which roughly 460kg was enriched to 60%.

That material could have been enriched to the 90% threshold generally considered to be weapons-grade in “one week to ten days,” one official says.

The officials say that Iran had also tested weapons “casements” and “detonators,” which the US officials say was evidence that Tehran would have been able to quickly take weapons-grade uranium and turn it into a weapon to be used against adversaries.

The update offers the most detailed account, since the start of the war, of the administration’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear program.

It comes as US President Donald Trump and other senior administration officials make the case that the war was necessary to eliminate Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons.

Trump has repeatedly said that the US strikes on Iran last year “obliterated” the country's nuclear program.

But there is still enriched nuclear material at all three sites, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

 

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69-day war?

 

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69-day war?

He needs to up the intensity to finish what he started...

I dont have much faith in Trump, but I have faith in Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ....

 

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France orders nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Mediterranean as Mideast war widens​

By Pierre Bairin and Jonny Hallam

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a televised address on the situation with Iran and the Middle East on Tuesday, March 3.
Romuald Meigneux/SIPA/AP

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France is deploying its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escort frigates to the Mediterranean as war spreads across the Middle East following US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

“In view of this unstable situation and the uncertainties of the days ahead, I have ordered the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, its air assets, and its escort frigates to make their way toward the Mediterranean,” Macron said in a televised address to the nation.
He said the United States and Israel had launched military operations against Iran “outside the framework of international law, which we cannot approve,” even as he sharply criticized Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic bears “primary responsibility” for regional instability.

Macron warned that strikes against Iran are expected to continue in the coming days and that retaliatory Iranian attacks across the region are also likely to persist.

Alongside Germany and the United Kingdom, he said France had called for an immediate halt to the strikes, stressing that “lasting peace in the region will only come through the resumption of diplomatic negotiations.”

France has also deployed Rafale fighter jets, air defense systems and airborne radar assets to protect allied airspace, and will maintain those measures “as long as necessary,” he said.

 

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France orders nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Mediterranean as Mideast war widens​

By Pierre Bairin and Jonny Hallam

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a televised address on the situation with Iran and the Middle East on Tuesday, March 3.
Romuald Meigneux/SIPA/AP

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France is deploying its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escort frigates to the Mediterranean as war spreads across the Middle East following US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

“In view of this unstable situation and the uncertainties of the days ahead, I have ordered the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, its air assets, and its escort frigates to make their way toward the Mediterranean,” Macron said in a televised address to the nation.
He said the United States and Israel had launched military operations against Iran “outside the framework of international law, which we cannot approve,” even as he sharply criticized Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic bears “primary responsibility” for regional instability.

Macron warned that strikes against Iran are expected to continue in the coming days and that retaliatory Iranian attacks across the region are also likely to persist.

Alongside Germany and the United Kingdom, he said France had called for an immediate halt to the strikes, stressing that “lasting peace in the region will only come through the resumption of diplomatic negotiations.”

France has also deployed Rafale fighter jets, air defense systems and airborne radar assets to protect allied airspace, and will maintain those measures “as long as necessary,” he said.

Macron is not making sense. Since he is calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli strikes, why the fuck did he mobilise his navy to the mediterranean sea?

 

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The Jewish civilians protesting against the war

 

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He needs to up the intensity to finish what he started...

I dont have much faith in Trump, but I have faith in Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ....

may be only 6.9 fixed targets left. but 6.9k mobile targets still in hiding?

 

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Macron is not making sense. Since he is calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli strikes, why the fuck did he mobilise his navy to the mediterranean sea?

evacuate a litter of frenchies?