This IS getting Old…..
The American President seems out of Patience….
Sold on the Hegseth idea of a ‘Mighty’ American War machine , the American President STILL does NOT ‘Get IT’….
Donald Trump started the packing up from Afghanistan….
He has be exasperated at ‘No DEAL’ in the Ukraine….
Israel is STILL hunting Hamas….
One KNOWS these things have been explained to Donald…
But he STILL things the world is about making MONEY and Real Estate Deals….
(Trump certainly would like to grab Iran’s oil?)
IT IS NOT….
Told NOT to attack Iran….
He HAS….
There will NO ‘Unconditional Surrender’ anytime soon , if ever….
One suspects that Trump will repeat his first term’s ending….
Moving to extract the American Military from a foreign country , leaving the details in the incoming Democratic President’s lap like he did to Joe Biden…
Reports have just come in that the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Div maybe on ‘Standby’ for a deployment to the Middle East?
The American President seems out of Patience….
Sold on the Hegseth idea of a ‘Mighty’ American War machine , the American President STILL does NOT ‘Get IT’….
They just hunker down and survive ….
Just look to the Ukraine and Hamas Mr. President….
*I just added a addtional on the Kurds stuck in the middle…..
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Russia is helping Iran with Intelligence about Israel and American military moves…
(The same Russia Trump has been bending over backwards to SUPPORT against Ukraine…)
Donald Trump IS walking blindly into a possible World War….
Analysts said that the sharing of intelligence would fit the pattern of Iran’s strikes against U.S. forces, including command and control infrastructure, radars and temporary structures, like the one in Kuwait where six service members were killed.
The CIA’s station at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, also was struck in recent days. Parts of the embassy building have been left “unrecoverable” and must be sealed off, according to an internal State Department assessment. The assessment, which was reviewed by The Post, said that other parts of the embassy would not be habitable for at least another month….
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NY Times…
Oil and gasoline prices jumped again on Friday, a sign of how the world, including the United States, will feel the economic pain of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, as bombing in Iran and Lebanon continued unabated.
The price of the U.S. domestic benchmark crude soared by almost $10 a barrel in a single day, closing near $91, the highest price since 2023 — up more than 35 percent from a week earlier, just before the bombing started. The average price of unleaded gasoline in the United States reached $3.32 per gallon, up 11 percent since the war began.
The concurrent increases, which showed no sign of easing, could be a serious shock to an already-slowing world economy. Stocks tumbled internationally, with the S&P 500 index losing 1.3 percent on Friday, moving it into negative territory for the year.
Israeli officials on Friday said their forces had destroyed an underground bunker that had been used by Iran’s supreme leader before he was killed last week, part a fresh wave of heavy strikes on Tehran. And President Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” by Iran, the most uncompromising goal he has set so far for the war, and one that could portend a much longer conflict in the Middle East.
The Israeli military also pounded the southern outskirts of Beirut and issued more evacuation warnings in Lebanon as it intensified its campaign there against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. About 300,000 people in Lebanon have fled their homes since the bombing began, the Norwegian Refugee Council estimated.
“We civilians are paying for the price of war,” said Mohamed Hjoula, 35, who had taken refuge with about 40 family members on Beirut’s waterfront promenade after leaving their homes.
Mr. Trump’s post on Truth Social that there “will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” highlighted his shifting war aims. Days earlier, Mr. Trump had told The Atlantic, “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them.”
The president made the post ruling out compromise after Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said earlier that some countries had begun what he called “mediation efforts,” without elaborating on who was involved. Iran’s intelligence ministry has reached out to the C.I.A. through intermediaries to discuss terms for ending the war, according to officials briefed on the outreach.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps launched a wave of drones and missiles at Israel, according to a statement from the force reported by IRNA, the country’s state news agency. Air-raid sirens went off in Tel Aviv, and the Israeli military said that it had detected missile launches from Iran, though there were no immediate reports of major damage.
Here’s what else we’re covering:
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New attacks: The Israeli military said it had struck more than 400 targets in western Iran on Friday, including missile launchers and drone storage sites.
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Bunker strike: Iranian state television reported attacks on a compound in Tehran where the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had lived, and Israel published video showing a series of airstrikes in roughly the same area, saying that its military had destroyed an underground bunker in the compound. The New York Times reviewed satellite imagery showing fresh damage to buildings at the site.
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Gulf nations: As Iran’s retaliatory strikes hit U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, Qatar’s foreign ministry said Tehran had carried out an attack on buildings in neighboring Bahrain where members of the Qatari Navy were, but reported no injuries. Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said that it had intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles launched toward a military complex south of the capital, Riyadh, while the United Arab Emirates said it had intercepted nine ballistic missiles and more than 100 drones on Friday.
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Evacuations: The State Department is battling accusations from diplomats and travelers who say the Trump administration endangered U.S. citizens by beginning a war without adequate plans for helping Americans leave the Middle East.
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Death toll: Hundreds of people have been killed in Iran since the start of the U.S.-Israeli attacks, according to the Red Crescent Society, Iran’s main humanitarian relief organization, including at least 175, many of them children, who died in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school. More than 200 people in Lebanon have been killed, according to the Lebanese health ministry…..
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ISW…Iran Update Morning Special Report, March 6, 2026
- The combined force has targeted the Iranian internal security infrastructure on March 6 to degrade the regime’s ability to maintain domestic control. The combined force targeted several law enforcement command and paramilitary facilities, including police stations in Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan Provinces, and two Basij Resistance bases in Tehran Province on March 6.
- The combined force has targeted key Iranian military infrastructure across multiple provinces, including missile sites, command and control institutions, and naval facilities. The combined force struck a ballistic missile site in Zanjan Province and the Imam Ali Missile Base near Khorramabad in Lorestan Province.
- Hezbollah claimed that the group conducted 18 attacks targeting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) positions and forces in northern Israel and southern Lebanon since ISW-CTP’s last data cutoff at 4:00 PM ET. Hezbollah claimed on March 5 that its fighters engaged and shelled Israeli ground forces in Markaba, Khiam, and Wadi al Asafir, Marjaayoun District.
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Iran’s deputy foreign minister warned European nations that they will become legitimate targets if they become involved in the US and Israel’s war on Tehran. If any country “joins America and Israel in the aggression against Iran, they will be also legitimate targets for Iran’s retaliation,” Majid Takht-Ravanchi told France 24. He said Iranian officials had been “negotiating in good faith” with the US before Washington decided to attack with Israel on Saturday. “We do not trust the Americans. Not only did they betray us, but they betrayed diplomacy.”
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Iran’s UN ambassador said that at least 1,332 Iranian civilians have been killed so far in the US-Israeli war on Tehran, with thousands more injured, and accused the US and Israel of war crimes. Amir Saeid Iravani told reporters at the UN’s headquarters in New York that the US and Israel “have demonstrated that they recognise no red line in committing their crimes”. He accused the two countries of “indiscriminate” attacks that were “deliberately” targeting “densely populated” civilian areas and infrastructure, including schools, medical, recreational and sportsfacilities. “These acts constitute clear war crimes and crimes against humanity,” he said.
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Meanwhile, the US military campaign against Iran may take as long as four to six weeks, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, adding that the US is “well on its way” toward controlling Iranian airspace. It comes as Trump met with leading US weapons manufacturers at the White House and said they had agreed to “quadruple Production of ‘Exquisite Class’ Weaponry”.
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Leavitt added that the US would consider Iran in a state of “unconditional surrender” once Donald Trump determines the country no longer “poses a threat” to the United States. Trump said on Friday that only Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” will bring an end to the joint US-Israeli offensive launched seven days ago.
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The Russian and Iranian presidents, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian, held a phone call today in which they agreed to continue contacts, the Kremlin said. It comes amid reports that Moscow has been providing Tehran with the locations of US military assets, including warships and aircraft, in the region. The White House earlier declined to confirm those reports.
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The UN secretary-general called on nations to “stop the fighting and get to serious diplomatic negotiations”, warning that the situation “could spiral beyond anyone’s control”. “The stakes could not be higher,” António Guterres wrote in a post on X.
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Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Iranian military told Iranian state tv that Tehran does not plan to close the strait of Hormuz, but will target any ship belonging to Israel or the United States. It comes as the US-Israeli war on Iran has driven the oil price past $90 a barrel to its highest weekly gains since the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago, threatening a fresh rise in global inflation.
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French president Macron condemned an Israeli strike that directly hit a United Nations site in Lebanon earlier today, critically injuring two Ghanaian soldiers serving with the UN’s peacekeeping mission there.
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Qatar’s defence ministry said that the country’s air defence systems were “subjected to waves of attacks” from Iranian drones on Friday, starting at dawn and continuing until evening. It said that of the 10 drones that were launched towards Qatar, nine were intercepted while the tenth hit an uninhabited area, causing no injuries…
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A Look at Iran….
🇮🇷 Whither Iran?
Benjamin Netanyahu has finally gotten something he has desired for decades: A war with Iran and a US president, made malleable by flattery, willing to go along and put US military members in harm’s way.
Let’s remember: Iran is not to be trifled with. It’s a pretty big country. Of the world’s 195 independent, sovereign countries, Iran ranks 17th in both population and size, with 93 million people and a land area of 636,371 square miles. Geographically, it’s bigger than France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and Switzerland combined. It’s the second-largest country in the Middle East, behind Saudi Arabia, and the 6th largest among Asia’s 50 or so countries.
World Atlas
It’s located in the area of one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations, dating to the 7th century BC. Over the centuries, through various conquests and rulers, ancient Iran (called Persia by the outside world until 1935) was the site of some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanization, religion, and administration. During the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to 13th century, there were innovations in literature, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and art.
Today, Iran is an energy powerhouse thanks to its massive oil and gas reserves, among the largest in the world, which help power its economy, the 19th largest in the world with a GDP of close to $2 trillion. It has lush flora and diverse fauna and 20 national parks. Tourism is big, more than 5% of the economy; it hit 9 million foreign visitors right before the pandemic, and has rebounded to more than 6 million….
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Trump has thrown the Iranian people to the wolves. He has no plan for helping reasonable opposition leaders try to take over. He shrugs his shoulders about what comes next for Iranians, wanly suggesting that they rise up against the regime. How? Throw fish and carpets at them? They’ve already been butchered by the thousands when they took to the streets to protest — at his urging — last month.
It’s absurd. But he’s an absurd, unserious person. The Iranian people, and the world, deserve better. So do we….
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Is the US Army’s 82nd Airborne getting ready to head to the Middle East?
The 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina includes a brigade combat team of about 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers ready to deploy on 18 hours notice for missions as varied as seizing airfields and other critical infrastructure, reinforcing U.S. embassies and enabling emergency evacuations. Its headquarters element is responsible for coordinating how those operations are planned and executed….
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The Immediate Response Force has been called upon in recent years to reinforce security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad just ahead of the military’s killing in 2020 of Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander blamed for hundreds of deadly attacks on American personnel in the Middle East. It was central also to the evacuation of Afghanistan in 2021 and the show of U.S. force in Eastern Europe as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine in 2022.
Since hostilities began nearly a week ago, U.S. commanders have relied on airstrikes and naval strikes to target military sites and Tehran’s arsenal of missiles, attack drones and navy vessels. As many Iranian defenses have crumbled, U.S. forces increasingly are flying directly over Iran, dropping munitions with fighter jets, bombers and other aircraft….
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At a Pentagon news briefing earlier in the day, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declined to comment when asked about “U.S. boots on the ground,” saying that’s a “question for policymakers.”
“I don’t make policy,” Caine added. “I execute policy.”
As The Post reported last week, Caine had warned the White House that munitions shortfalls and a lack of broad military support from other U.S. allies would add considerable risk to any operation in Iran and to the personnel put in harm’s way. The Trump administration has sought to downplay those concerns….
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Securing Iran’s most significant oil infrastructure also would follow a pattern for Trump, who has previously sought to secure oil wealth for the United States through the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and intervention in Syria during his first term in office.
Still, deploying ground forces into Iran could pose significant political risk for the president, who is facing anti-war opposition from Democrats and a wing of his own Republican Party.
A poll by CNN published Sunday found that 12 percent of respondents favor sending ground troops to Iran, while 60 percent oppose it and 28 percent are unsure….
Update on the Kurds….
Iraq’s Kurds are caught in a three-way vice in the cross-border Iran War:
- They think President Trump’s messaging isn’t clear about regime change next door in Iran.
- They’re under pressure to open the border from Iranian Kurds, who want to fight the regime.
- And Tehran’s military Friday threatened the Iraqi Kurds if they allow those Iranian Kurds to plan an attack.
Why it matters: The Iranian warning —the first of its kind issued to Iraq’s Kurds across the border— threatens to widen the war. Iraqi Kurds want to avoid that.
- “The Kurds must not be the tip of the spear in this conflict,” a senior Iraqi Kurdish government official told Axios.
Zoom in: Iraq’s Kurdish government, which rules a semiautonomous region in the north of the country, prides itself on talking to both sides. But Iran’s government changed its otherwise friendly tone Friday in a communique about Iranian Kurdish militants across the border.
- “Should their continued presence and plotting be permitted, or should these groups or [Zionist] regime elements enter the borders of the Islamic Republic through the Region, all facilities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq…will be targeted on a massive scale,” Ali Akbar Ahmadian, an Iranian Defense Council official, said in a written statement.
- The council called the Iraqi Kurdish government to draw attention to the post.
- “They don’t need hypersonic missiles to hurt us. 200 Shahed drones could cause a lot of damage here. We have no air defense systems. We don’t have any ways to knock these things out of the skies,” the official said.
Zoom out: Trump has sent multiple signals about what he wants to see unfold in Iran. He has called for regime change in Iran but hasn’t communicated what that looks like…..
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