The crash of the US Air Force KC-135 aerial tanker in Iraq has resulted in 6 airmen lost…
It appears that there was a collision between tanker and another KC-135.
The second aircraft lost part of its tail rudder but landed safely ….
Those on board are added to the ones lost in the Iran missle strike in Kuwait…
More US bombing attacks on Iran , which seems to shooting less missiles and drone’s then before….
There is report of 2,500 US MiddleMarines being redeployed from the Pacific to the Middle East…
Trump is backing away from regime change, acknowledging that the current Iran leadership continues to have strong hold on the country….
The American President says it’s a ‘Great Honor to be Killing Them’ In Iran….
And has NO answer for an ending of the War…..
The Iranian new leader has been injured Israeli Intel says….
Civilian deaths rise in Iran and from Israeli strikes in Lebanon…
Israeli maybe getting ready to deploy troops into Lebanon
Iran maybe actually letting some oil tankers transit the Strait of Hormuz….
Trump has told the Israeli’s and Defense Sec. Hegseth to NOT BOMB Iran’s oil storage infrastructure’s…
Hegseth IS still worked up on his ‘Crusade’ against Iran…
Trump says his admin is now’ watching ‘Iran‘s in America?
“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years. And now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”
— President Trump, on Truth Social, referring to the Iran war.
President Trump said the U.S. military conducted a large bombing raid on Iran’s key oil export hub on Friday night, following a steep climb in oil prices caused by Iran’s effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a portal for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.
Mr. Trump said he had directed the Pentagon to “totally obliterate” military forces at the hub, Kharg Island, but had told the U.S. military not to damage its oil infrastructure “for reasons of decency.”
Oil prices have risen by more than 40 percent since the United States and Israel started the war with Iran almost two weeks ago — with the world’s benchmark for oil finishing the day above $103 a barrel on Friday, the highest end-of-day level since 2022 — despite efforts by Western officials to reassure markets that they are taking steps to prop up supplies and reopen the strait.
Traffic through the strait remained all but halted because of Iranian threats, and there was no sign yet that the United States and its allies were about to use warships to escort tankers safely through, an idea they have publicly discussed since last week. Wealthy nations have promised to release some of their oil reserves, but neither that nor the talk of escorts has kept the price down.
The United States is sending an additional 2,500 Marines aboard as many as three warships to the Middle East, officials said, to join about 50,000 troops already amassed in the region. It was unclear how the new deployment would be used.
The Trump administration appears to have been unprepared for an oil shock, or for Iran to use the choke point of the strait as leverage, though it has done so in the past. Mr. Trump has said repeatedly that the problem would be temporary, while suggesting that the war will end soon.
Mr. Trump on Friday tempered his call for Iranians to rise up against their rulers, acknowledging that they would be gunned down for trying. He has vacillated between calling for the overthrow of Iran’s theocratic government and indicating that he was prepared to accept — as he did in Venezuela — new leadership from within that regime, as long as it complied with U.S. demands. But on Feb. 28, when he announced the start of the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, he said that when it was done, the Iranian people should seize power, and “it will be yours to take.”
But there are government forces in Iran that “go around with machine guns,” Mr. Trump said on Friday in an interview with Fox radio. “And they say, ‘Anybody protests, we’re going to kill you in the street,’” he added. “So I really think that’s a big hurdle to climb for people that don’t have weapons.”
Earlier this year, huge crowds of Iranians joined demonstrations demanding a change of government, and met with brutal repression, as government forces killed thousands of protesters and jailed thousands more.
Here’s what else we are covering:
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U.S. jet crash: All six crew members died in the crash of a U.S. aerial refueling tanker, the military said, raising the number of American service members killed in the war to at least 13. U.S. Central Command said the crash of the KC-135 jet in Iraq was under investigation, but that it was not caused by either hostile or friendly fire. Read more ›
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School strike: Mr. Hegseth said Centcom, the branch of the U.S. military responsible for the Middle East, had appointed an officer from outside its ranks to investigate a deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28. But he declined to comment on reports that a preliminary investigation had determined that the United States was responsible.
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Khamenei wounded: Mr. Khamenei, who succeeded his father as supreme leader, was “wounded and likely disfigured,” Mr. Hegseth said. The Times reported on Wednesday that Iranian and Israeli officials believed Mr. Khamenei had been injured on the first day of the Israeli-American attack against Iran.
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Quds Day rally: Thousands of people were out in Tehran on Friday for a rally marking Quds Day, held annually by the Iranian government against Israel. People chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” and burned the Israeli flag. The rally was seen in part as an effort by loyalists of Iran’s clerical leadership to demonstrate their continued support.
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Death toll: More than 1,348 civilians in Iran have been killed since the start of the war, Iran’s representative to the United Nations told the Security Council on Wednesday, the latest figure the country has provided. In Lebanon, officials said that nearly 800 people had been killed and over 2,000 others injured….
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ISW...Iran Update Evening Special Report, March 13, 2026
- The US-Israeli combined force continued to target Iranian internal security infrastructure on March 13 in order to degrade the regime’s repressive capabilities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on March 12 during his first press conference since the war started that Israel is “creating the optimal conditions for toppling the regime.”
- The combined force has continued to target Iranian defense industrial sites across Iran. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated on March 13 that US and Israeli strikes have “functionally defeated” Iran’s ballistic missile production capacity by destroying Iran’s defense companies and production lines across Iran that manufacture missile components.
- Iran is selectively allowing some ships to transit through the Strait of Hormuz. ISW-CTP has not observed any Iranian attacks against civilian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz since Iran struck a Chinese-state-owned Liberian-flagged vessel at 10:19 PM ET on March 11. Iran seems to be trying to disrupt commercial shipping with missiles and drones while avoiding the economic and political consequences of mining the Strait completely.
- Israeli officials are reportedly discussing the potential expansion of Israeli ground operations in Lebanon. Israeli media reported that Israeli security and defense officials are examining several options, ranging from an expansive ground operation reaching the Litani River to more limited actions in southern Lebanon…
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