Iran says almost 800 killed in their country…
Hundreds of thousands foreign nationals are trying to get out of the war zone…
Cluster warhead missiles launched at Israel from Iran…
Trump orders the US Navy to reopen the Strait of Hurmoz by excourting ship’s against Iran attacks..
The Saudi’s have come under several attacks…
Israel is throwing attacks back at Hezbollah in Lebanon …
Israel has bombed the place when any new Iran government might be meeting…
After tries by several Trump admin officals to justify the Strikes?
Trump NOW says there was athreat to the US interstest and othere Middle eastern Countries….
(Hmmm? would that apply to NATO or Taiwan?)
Iran seems to be striking back in a effort to hang Trump out to take hits politically and lose patience?
They are NOT talking any type of deal….
Folks?
Israel does NOT want any deal either……
(That probably goes for the other countries Iran has been shooting at, either?)
NY Times….
The Defense Department released the names of four Army Reserve soldiers who were killed over the weekend in Kuwait by a drone attack on U.S. military facilities amid President Trump’s widening war with Iran.
The slain soldiers are Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa. All four were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines, Iowa.
With the Middle East war widening and no sign of when it will end, nations outside the region were struggling on Tuesday to get hundreds of thousands of their people out of countries who were left unable to leave the region.
The Israeli and U.S. bombardment of Iran continued, Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone barrage at Gulf nations intensified, and Israeli forces pushed into Lebanon to halt Hezbollah rocket fire, while global financial markets slumped on fears of inflation as the price of oil soared.
President Trump said that Iranian officials whom the United States had eyed as potential new leaders had been killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign, and that the worst outcome would be that whoever takes over Iran could be “as bad” as their predecessors — striking admissions of the uncertainty shrouding how the war will unfold and what will follow it.
Iranian clerics were expected on Wednesday to announce a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who was killed on Saturday by a targeted Israeli airstrike.
European countries and India were rushing to establish escape routes for their nationals in the region, including organizing emergency flights. France said some 400,000 of its people were in the Middle East.
The United States had said on Monday that Americans should leave more than a dozen countries, from Egypt to Iraq, on their own. After President Trump was asked on Tuesday why the government was not helping them evacuate, the State Department announced that it was “facilitating charter flights from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan,” and that 9,000 Americans had left the region on their own.
Millions of foreign nationals live in the Persian Gulf states, most of them low-wage workers from South Asia and the Philippines.
In a legally mandated notification to Congress, Mr. Trump said the strikes on Iran were carried out because of “the threat to the United States” and U.S. forces in the region, to advance U.S. national interests and “in collective self-defense of our regional allies, including Israel.” He also said “it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary.”
Speaking to reporters at the start of a White House meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, Mr. Trump claimed that Iran had been about to attack its neighbors and Israel, and he made the decision to go to war on Saturday to pre-empt that action. He had previously said Iran was on the verge of having missiles that could reach the United States, though officials with access to U.S. intelligence have said that Mr. Trump exaggerated the immediacy of any threat Iran posed to the United States.
More than 800 people have been killed in the conflict across the Middle East since Saturday.
Here’s what we’re covering:
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Iran succession: Asked whom he would like to take over Iran, Mr. Trump gave a strikingly blunt answer. “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” he said. “Now we have another group, they may be dead also, based on reports. So you have a third wave coming. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.”
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Congressional updates: Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a closed-door briefing with members of the Senate, and had another scheduled with the members of the House. Mr. Rubio told reporters that the Trump administration had “over-complied” with the War Powers act’s rules on notifying Congress about military action. Democrats leaving the first session said it did not provide any additional clarity on the president’s strategic aims in attacking Iran.
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Hezbollah attacks: Fighting escalated between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said that it had targeted weapons storage facilities in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, as Hezbollah said it had fired attack drones at Israel. Israel’s advance in southern Lebanon prompted fears that it could be weighing a wider ground assault there. Read more ›
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Navy escorts? President Trump said the United States might deploy its Navy to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway south of Iran through which a fifth of the world’s oil travels. Tanker traffic through the strait has nearly stopped because of the fear the ships might be attacked. Read more ›
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Death toll: Iran’s Red Crescent Society, the country’s main humanitarian relief organization, said the death toll had risen to 787 since the start of the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Saturday. Six U.S. service members and dozens of people in Lebanon also have been killed. In one southern Iranian town, thousands of mourners filled the streets during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school, according to footage and images verified by The New York Times. The bombing of the school on Saturday killed at least 175 people. Read more ›
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ISW...Iran Update Morning Special Report, March 3, 2026
- The United States and Israel continued to attack Iranian internal security institutions. The combined force reportedly destroyed the Marivan Law Enforcement Command (LEC) Headquarters in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, on March 3. This reported attack comes after the combined force struck the Kurdistan Province LEC Headquarters in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on March 2. The attacks on internal security institutions in Kurdistan Province are notable given that significant protest activity took place in this province during the 2022-2023 Mahsa Amini protest movement.
- The IDF confirmed that Iran launched a ballistic missile with a cluster munition warhead at Israel on March 1. A cluster munition warhead contains submunitions that disperse over a wide area and are intended to maximize damage. Iran previously launched a Khorramshahr-4 ballistic missile containing a cluster munition warhead at Israel during the June 2025 Israel-Iran War.
- Iran continued to conduct drone and ballistic missile attacks targeting energy and maritime infrastructure in Gulf countries. An Iranian drone struck the Port of Salalah in Raysut, Oman, on March 3. Several Iranian drones struck a fuel tanker at the Duqm Port in Duqm, Oman, on March 3. Iranian attacks targeting energy infrastructure in the Gulf have continued to disrupt some regional oil and gas industries.
- Two Iranian drones struck the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 2. The Iranian drone attack caused a limited fire and minor material damage to the US Embassy. The Saudi Foreign Ministry condemned the Iranian drone attack on the embassy and stated that Saudi Arabia reserves the right to respond to the attack. A senior Israeli official told Israeli media on March 3 that Israel assesses that Saudi Arabia will soon strike Iran. US President Donald Trump responded to the attack on the US Embassy, stating “you [will] find [out] soon what the retaliation will be for the attack.”
- The Qatari Foreign Ministry denied reports that Qatar conducted strikes against Iran. Iran has launched around 101 ballistic missiles, 39 drones, and 3 cruise missiles at Qatar since the start of the war.
- Hezbollah has launched several attacks targeting IDF positions and forces in northern Israel since ISW-CTP’s last data cutoff. The IDF launched “forward defense maneuver[s]” in southern Lebanon on March 3. The IDF has continued to conduct airstrikes targeting Hezbollah military sites and institutions in Lebanon since ISW-CTP’s last data cutoff to degrade Hezbollah’s ability to conduct retaliatory attacks against Israel…
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Iran’s Strategy: Expand the War, Increase the Cost, Outlast Trump
The Islamic Republic is aiming to draw out the conflict and broaden the fighting. That would force President Trump to risk more casualties and more political capital.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s first priority is to survive. To do that, its leaders will want to drive up the cost of the war for President Trump — in terms of American casualties, energy costs and inflation — to try to persuade him to declare victory and go home.
Faced with the overwhelming firepower of the United States and Israel, diplomats and analysts say, Iran is working to enlarge the battlefield from its own territory to the broader region. The goals are to damage oil and gas infrastructure in neighboring countries, shut the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and curtail air traffic — all to disrupt the economies of the Persian Gulf and drive up global energy prices and inflation. Iran will also be trying to exhaust the number of expensive missile interceptors held by its enemies.
“The war has become a test of wills and stamina,” said Vali Nasr of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. “Iran is facing qualitatively superior militaries, so the strategy is to test their will by expanding the battlefield, complicating the war and increasing the danger to the world economy.”
The strategy is not complicated….
(Sounds like the Ukraine?)
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US president suggests worst-case result of assassination would be regime change that fails to relieve repression
Donald Trump said his biggest fear in the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran would be regime change that brought in leadership “as bad as the previous person”.
At an Oval Office news conference with the visiting German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the US president was asked by a reporter about the “worst-case scenario” of the risky operation that led to the assassination on Saturday of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei….
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