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🇨🇳#China
The foreign ministers of 🇸🇦#Saudi Arabia, 🇰🇼#Kuwait, 🇴🇲#Oman and 🇧🇭#Bahrain will visit China from January 10-14 at the invitation of China, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.
China is worried about supply security following the turmoil in Kazakhstan, one of its key suppliers.
Analysts said the visitors will want to explore ways to overcome their reliance on the 🇺🇸
#US market and balance Beijing’s close ties to their deadly rival 🇮🇷#Iran

Министры иностранных дел 🇸🇦Саудовской Аравии, 🇰🇼Кувейта, 🇴🇲Омана и 🇧🇭Бахрейна посетят Китай с 10 по 14 января по приглашению Китая, сообщил официальный представитель МИД Ван Вэньбинь.
Китай обеспокоен безопасностью поставок энергоносителей после беспорядков в Казахстане, одном из своих ключевых поставщиков
Chronicles of Troubled Times: prologue to WWIII
🇺🇦#Ukraine Countries that announced the evacuation of their citizens from Ukraine and / or employees of diplomatic missions: 🇺🇸USA (State Department Regulation), January 23, 2022 🇬🇧United Kingdom (Foreign Office statement) 🇳🇱Netherlands (statement by Ambassador…
⚡️🇪🇸Spanish authorities recommended their citizens to leave Ukraine
⚡️German Foreign Ministry called on its citizens to leave Ukraine.
In addition, 🇩🇪#Germany, following the example of 🇺🇸#US, is moving the consulate from Dnipro to Lviv and reducing the staff of the embassy in Kiev.
⚡️🇮🇹#Italy evacuates non-essential embassy staff in Kiev
⚡️The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of 🇫🇮#Finland, the 🇦🇪#UAE and 🇰🇼#Kuwait urge their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately.

⚡️Власти 🇪🇸Испании рекомендовали своим гражданам покинуть Украину
⚡️Министерство иностранных дел Германии призвало своих граждан покинуть Украину.
Кроме того, 🇩🇪#Германия, по примеру 🇺🇸#США, переносит консульство из Днепра во Львов и сокращает штат посольства в Киеве.
⚡️🇮🇹#Италия эвакуирует второстепенный персонал посольства в Киеве
⚡️МИДы 🇫🇮Финляндии, 🇦🇪#ОАЭ и 🇰🇼Кувейта призывают своих граждан немедленно покинуть Украину.
☢️ 🇮🇷 Is Iran preparing to test a nuclear bomb? 🤔

🇺🇸🇮🇶 #US Embassy in #Iraq begins emergency evacuation of diplomats — Reuters
🇰🇼 US prepares to evacuate personnel from #Kuwait — AP News
🇬🇧 #UK warns all tankers and vessels to stay alert when crossing the Persian Gulf
🇧🇭 U.S. Navy in #Bahrain placed on "high alert" — military families given the green light for evacuation
🇮🇷 Iran states it does not seek nuclear weapons but will "continue nuclear research"

The escalation is linked to stalled U.S.-Iran nuclear program talks

▪️ On June 10, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) presented new intelligence on Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program, codenamed "Kavir Plan." Active since 2009 after the "Amad Plan" was shelved, it’s disguised as satellite launch projects

❗️Iran is intensifying GPS jamming over parts of Iraq, targeting airspace used by military aircraft

🔺 On Polymarket, the probability of an Israeli strike on Iran has risen to 44%

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Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸
🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The B-2 Bombers are armed and loaded with munitions. The bombers have entered the Pacific arena. Their next stop is vital, if they land in Hawaii, they will likely move onto RAF Diego Garcia. However, if they land in Guam, as we've pointed…
🇺🇸 #US MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
❗️Around 50,000 US troops are currently stationed in the #MidEast, making up nearly a third of ALL US forces deployed outside the country.
🇰🇼🇶🇦🇧🇭 The majority are based in #Kuwait, #Qatar, and #Bahrain.

🇺🇸 ВОЕННОЕ ПРИСУТСТВИЕ #США НА БЛИЖНЕМ ВОСТОКЕ
❗️В настоящее время на Ближнем Востоке размещено около 50 000 американских военнослужащих, что составляет почти треть ВСЕХ сил США, развернутых за пределами страны.
🇰🇼🇶🇦🇧🇭 Большинство из них базируются в Кувейте, Катаре и Бахрейне.

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#Middle_East

⚡️⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸According to Reuters, on February 3, 2026, a US F-35C shot down an Iranian Shahed-139 drone approaching the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.

⚡️⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇴🇲At the same time, Revolutionary Guard Corps boats and a Mohajer drone attempted to seize the US tanker Stena Imperative in the Strait of Hormuz — CBS News

❗️🇮🇷🇨🇳An Iranian Boeing 747 cargo plane with tail number EP-SIH is en route to #China.

⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 #Israel has requested US approval for freedom of action in #Iran.

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇰🇼🇧🇭🇶🇦The #US is deploying additional THAAD and Patriot missile defense systems to #Jordan, #Kuwait, #Bahrain, and #Qatar.

Axios: Donald Trump is restrained from military action due to the lack of a fully secure digital control infrastructure.
Factors cited include an incomplete satellite network required for real-time coordination of drones and air defense systems by AI agents, and the risk of cyberattacks on ground nodes.

Additionally, concerns exist about a potential "digital boomerang" effect, where an immediate strike could disrupt the Western banking system.

There is also the consideration of market stability for upcoming IPOs of companies like xAI and SpaceX.


In the background:
📉 Bitcoin fell below $75,000, and Ethereum fell below $2,200

UPD:
Bitcoin falls to $73,000
Current Bitcoin advice from former MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor

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Middle Eastern Zugzwang
⁉️🇺🇸🇮🇷Can the US strike Iran without regional allies?

🇸🇦🇦🇪🇶🇦🇰🇼🇮🇶🇯🇴🇴🇲🇦🇿🇹🇷🇵🇰❌🇺🇸Insiders report that #KSA, #UAE, #Qatar, #Kuwait, #Iraq, #Jordan, #Oman, #Azerbaijan, #Turkey, and #Pakistan have refused #US access to their airspace/territory for aggression against #Iran.


➡️ Washington is left with two bad options:


1️⃣ Strike from the sea (Arabian Sea) or Diego Garcia via the narrow Gulf of Oman corridor (<300km).

➡️ The Trap: Predictable flight paths allow Iran to concentrate AD/A2AD in one sector.

➡️ Range Gap: USS Lincoln (JASSM-ER ~925km) vs. Iran (Ghadr-380 >1000km, Drones 1500-4000km).

➡️ Intel: Iranian drones are already shadowing the USS Lincoln group.

➡️ Logistics: Bombers from Diego Garcia (3800-5200km away) carry heavy firepower (B-2/B-52/B1B) but cannot sustain the sortie rate needed to prevent retaliation.


2️⃣ Ignore allies and violate their airspace.

⏺ Risks:
➡️ US branded as an "unreliable partner" (officially).
➡️ Escalation to regional war & Strait of Hormuz blockade (20% of global oil).
➡️ Mass protests and attacks on US bases (Iraq 2020 scenario).

ℹ️SUMMARY: A US attack now is insufficient for regime change. Iran has stabilized internally (crushing protests after the Starlink blackout). This is a diplomatic trap: "No war, no peace."

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News Summary February 6

PART 2. Middle East Logistics

⚡️🇺🇸✈️🇮🇷 Since January 16, 2026, the #US Air Force has carried out at least 122 flights to the Middle East.
🤍 114 flights were performed by C-17A Globemaster III aircraft.
🤍 8 flights — by C-5M Super Galaxy.

➡️ Destinations 🇯🇴🇶🇦🇸🇦🇰🇼🇧🇭🇩🇯🇬🇧🇦🇪🇮🇱
▪️ 59 flights — Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, #Jordan;
▪️ 20 flights — Al Udeid Air Base, #Qatar;
▪️ 14 flights — Prince Sultan Air Base, #Saudi_Arabia;
▪️ 9 flights — Ali Al Salem Air Base, #Kuwait;
▪️ 4 flights — #Bahrain (including 3 to Isa Air Base);
▪️ 6 flights — US Navy Base Camp Lemonnier, #Djibouti;
▪️ 7 flights — Diego Garcia Air Base (3 via Al Udeid);
▪️ 2 flights — Al Dhafra Air Base, #UAE;
▪️ 1 flight — Nevatim Air Base, #Israel.

This count does not include intra-regional flights between bases, nor does it include over a dozen flights by US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM).

🚨🇺🇸🚀 In total, the US has deployed over 450 Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Middle East — NBC News.

🇺🇸⛴ However, according to POLITICO, the US Navy still requires more than a week to reach positions necessary for a potential attack on Iran.

Diplomatic Panic
‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US Virtual Embassy in Tehran issued a major security alert urging US citizens to leave Iran immediately.
🤍 All this during talks between the US and Iran, which on the American side (besides Kushner and Witkoff) included CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper (suggesting that military men make lousy negotiators).

#US and #Iran held eight-hour talks in Muscat mediated by Oman — Axios.

⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇴🇲 Iran demanded to secure its right to uranium enrichment — WSJ, IRNA.
Iran is also not ready to make concessions on its ballistic missile program — NYT.

🔴 RESULT: There will be no agreement with Iran.

➡️ Meanwhile, sources at The National report that Kushner is "actively working" with Iranian-American businessmen to create a transitional government following the fall of the Iranian regime.

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Week in Review: The Calm Before the Storm

‼️🇺🇸 🇮🇷 #US vs #Iran: Pre-Strike Buildup Reaches Critical Mass

What we're witnessing is not "increased pressure" or a "negotiating posture." This is a textbook pre-strike force deployment

➡️ Two carrier strike groups (USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford) are now converging on the Middle East. A single carrier group signals deterrence. Two signal an operation. The combined air wing comprises approximately 240 strike aircraft, including F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, F-35C/A, F-22A, F-16, and F-15E platforms, supported by EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft, E-2D/E-3 AWACS, P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol, and KC-135/KC-46 tankers

➡️ Since mid-January, the US has conducted roughly 200 C-17 Globemaster III transport flights to the region. At approximately $25,000 per flight hour and 11 hours per round trip, transport costs alone exceed $55 million — excluding the deployment of dozens of other aircraft and naval vessels

🇯🇴 THAAD missile defense systems have been deployed to Muwaffaq Al-Salti Air Base in Jordan, with at least 68 cargo aircraft arriving within five days. THAAD is not a deterrence tool — it's a shield you raise when you know the counterpunch is coming

🇳🇴 The US is withdrawing most of its aviation assets from NATO's Cold Response 2026 exercises in #Norway, scheduled for early-to-mid March. This is a direct resource reallocation from "training" to "operational" status

🇵🇹 Portugal's Lajes Field in the Azores experienced its largest-ever influx of American aircraft: at least 11 KC-46 tankers, 12 F-16 fighters, one C-17 transport, and approximately 400 US crew members transited through on February 18-19 alone. Staging bases are running out of capacity

🔴🕘 Estimated timeline: The strike group reaches peak readiness by late February to early March 2026. The operational window opens in the first two weeks of March. The likely scenario is a 72-hour air campaign targeting Iran's nuclear infrastructure (Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, Arak, Bushehr) and IRGC command centers — not a ground invasion, but a decapitation of the nuclear program

➡️ Trump's mention of 32,000 Iranian protest casualties is narrative preparation — framing the strike as "liberation" rather than aggression

⚡️🇺🇸✈️Boeing C-17 Modernization: $400M for a "Retired" Workhorse

The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $400+ million contract to fully modernize the C-17A Globemaster III cockpit — for an aircraft whose production ended in 2015. The USAF needs the C-17 flying until 2075. This is not a typo. An aircraft designed in the 1980s is being prepared for service into the 2070s. The 200 transport flights to the Middle East in one month are a better justification for this investment than any Pentagon report

🇮🇱 🇦🇪 #UAE - #Israel: Shin Bet Embedded in the Emirates

A leaked UAE Ministry of Interior document reveals a secret agreement embedding seven Shin Bet agents directly within the command centers of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and all seven emirates. Agents were issued Emirati identity cards for undercover operations. A joint Mossad-Shin Bet office was established at Expo 2020. Israeli "consultants" operate under the direct supervision of local police chiefs

This leak is either a deliberate signal from someone in Abu Dhabi seeking distance from Israel ahead of the Iran strike, or Iranian intelligence demonstrating awareness of Israeli-Gulf coordination. Either way, the message is clear: the Emirates are already inside the operation, whether they acknowledge it publicly or not


🇯🇵 🇩🇪 #Japan and #Germany have repeatedly urged their nationals working at US facilities in the Middle East to leave. MFAs across multiple countries have been issuing similar warnings for at least three weeks — routine noise until embassy evacuations begin, which marks the real countdown

⚠️As a reminder: in early February, #KSA, #UAE, #Qatar, #Kuwait, #Iraq, #Jordan, #Oman, #Azerbaijan, #Turkey, and #Pakistan officially or privately warned the United States that they would not allow their airspace, land, or waters to be used for aggression against Iran
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🇮🇷 #IRAN: News Summary, March 1st
Chaos in the Middle East

⚡️🇺🇸 Four US Air Force B-2A Spirit strategic bombers conducted a series of strikes on targets within Iranian territory, executing a non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from Whiteman Air Force Base with mid-air refueling last night. They have since set a return course.
➡️ The #US has officially confirmed strikes by B-2A Spirit bombers using 2,000-lb GBU-31(V)3/B JDAMs, based on BLU-109B penetrator bombs, against fortified Iranian ballistic missile production facilities.

🇺🇸 Trump stated that US forces have sunk nine Iranian ships and plan to sink the rest.
• CENTCOM announced the sinking of an Iranian Navy Jamaran-class corvette at the pier in the Iranian port of Chabahar.

• Images have been released of a burning Iranian Alvand-class frigate, equipped with 4 Chinese C-802 anti-ship missiles, at the neighboring naval base in Konarak (only 12 km away).

• The US also released a video (above) showing BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) being launched from the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) at Iranian targets in support of Operation "Epic Fury" on March 1, 2026.

• CENTCOM provided a preliminary summary of Operation "Epic Fury" and the targets hit in Iran. Submarines are listed among them.


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❗️Retaliatory Strikes:

🇫🇷 🇦🇪 Two Iranian Shahed-136 drones struck the French Naval Base "Camp de la Paix" near Port Zayed in Abu Dhabi, #UAE — after which #France decided to urgently redeploy the aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" to the Eastern Mediterranean.

🇩🇪🇮🇶🇯🇴 German troop deployment sites in #Iraq and #Jordan were also attacked by Iranian drones.
Two Jordanian F-16s with AIM-120 and AIM-9 air-to-air missiles were scrambled to intercept Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.

🇦🇪 An Iranian Shahed-136 drone attacked a United Arab Emirates oil platform in the Persian Gulf.

🇺🇸 The IRGC once again attacked the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea with four ballistic missiles.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 Iran launched a missile strike on a US military base in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan (video below).

🇺🇸🇰🇼 US military personnel recorded a video of an Arash-2 kamikaze drone strike on the US base Camp Buehring in #Kuwait.

⚡️🇺🇸🇧🇭 Iran struck a naval base near the port of Salman in #Bahrain.

➡️ On the map — US bases in the Middle East subjected to confirmed strikes by Iran over the past 24 hours.
So far, Iran has attacked US and allied bases in 15 countries:
– 🇮🇱 Israel
– 🇺🇸 United States (bases)
– 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
– 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
– 🇶🇦 Qatar
– 🇰🇼 Kuwait
– 🇯🇴 Jordan
– 🇮🇶 Iraq
– 🇧🇭 Bahrain
– 🇴🇲 Oman
– 🇸🇾 Syria
– 🇨🇾 Cyprus
– 🇫🇷 France (Camp de la Paix, UAE)
– 🇮🇹 Italy (in Kuwait)
– 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (in Cyprus)


Friendly Fire
🇪🇬🇵🇼🇴🇲🇬🇮 An Iranian oil fleet tanker — Skylight — registered to Red Sea Ship Management LLC (#Egypt) and sailing under the flag of #Palau, was attacked by the IRGC five nautical miles off the coast of Musandam, #Oman, and continues to burn and sink.
In total, Iran has managed to attack three tankers, two of which belong to Iran itself via proxies (one from the "shadow fleet" — Skylight) and a small #Gibraltar bunkering vessel (Hercules Star).

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❗️🇺🇸 Trump stated that the war with Iran could last about a month.

⚡️🇦🇪 The #UAE authorities announced the suspension of trading on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges on March 2 and 3.
The Emirates are closing their embassy in Tehran and recalling their ambassador.

⚡️🇮🇱 The Israel Defense Forces announced the call-up of 100,000 reservists.
IDF Chief of Staff Zamir: "We still have many days of fighting ahead of us. We need patience now."

🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧 #Germany, #France, and the #UK stated their readiness to take "defensive actions" to "destroy" Iran's military potential.

‼️🇮🇱🇬🇷🇩🇪 "Wing of Zion" — Israel's "Air Force One" — flew out of Tel Aviv yesterday afternoon, circled over the Mediterranean for four hours, then set course for Greece and eventually landed in Berlin, where it will remain until the end of the war in the Middle East.

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#Iran War
PART 1

⚡️🇺🇸☠️💵LOSSES:

⏺#US losses in the Middle East are significantly higher than official figures.
A Pentagon private contractor is urgently hiring personnel to work at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Employees' tasks will include unpacking and sorting personal belongings of US military personnel who died outside the US.

Dover Air Force Base is a key US strategic airlift hub.


⏺Fifth US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle crashed/shot down during a combat mission over southwestern Iran in 6 days.
Both crew members ejected. An hour later, CSAR (US and Israeli special forces) allegedly entered Iran and evacuated the pilots. CENTCOM has not confirmed this yet.

⚡️🔥🇺🇸 US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer attacked by Iranian missile and burning at sea.

⚡️🇺🇸🇰🇼 Iran struck a hotel in Kuwait housing US soldiers (video)

⚡️🇦🇪 #UAE Ministry of Defense announced interception of six ballistic missiles and 125 Iranian drones today.

⚡️🇬🇧🇨🇾🇺🇸 Iranian strike drone attacked British Akrotiri airbase on #Cyprus, hitting a hangar for US U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

⚡️🇦🇿 Reuters: Iranian drones struck Nakhchivan airport, #Azerbaijan (video)
Baku confirmed the strike: one drone crashed into the airport terminal building, another near a school in Shekerabad village.

Two people injured, Iranian ambassador summoned to MFA.

❗️ Azerbaijani army units placed on full combat alert and deployed to the Iranian border.

Iran's central headquarters, Khatam al-Anbiya, denies launching drones toward Azerbaijan, claiming Israel was behind the attack.


⚡️🇮🇳 An Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighter jet has disappeared from radar screens.

⚡️🇬🇧 #UK sending unspecified number of fighters, helicopters, and drones to the Middle East.

⚡️🇮🇹 #Italy to deploy multifunctional forces to the Middle East with air defense systems.

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📉ECONOMY heading to hell

🇪🇺 Energy crisis brewing in #Europe.

📈⛽️Gas prices up nearly 53% in just a few days — FT.
🛢📈 The price of Murban crude oil, the UAE's standard crude oil grade, — now $93 per barrel.
📈🔥🇨🇳Crude Oil is now being sold by 100 USD/barrel in Mainland China!

🔴 Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf designated as "area of military operations" by maritime sector.

➡️ 💵📉$7 billion per day in losses from Strait of Hormuz closure alone.

🇮🇷 Iran statement, Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari:
"We didn't actually close the Strait of Hormuz.
The Americans closed it themselves."


(probably referring to depth charges)

"We are moving ships in accordance with international protocols."


🇺🇸 US response: US military will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz — US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox News.

⚡️🛢🇨🇳 #China completely halted oil exports — Bloomberg.
Chinese government ordered major refineries to immediately stop all fuel exports due to supply instability.

National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) representatives ordered major players, including PetroChina, Sinopec, and others, to immediately cease new export contracts and negotiate cancellation of existing deals.


Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated China will send a special envoy to the Middle East to mediate de-escalation of regional tensions.

⚡️🇶🇦❌⛽️ #Qatar announced halt of LNG production.

⚡️🇮🇶🇰🇼❌⛽️🛢 #Iraq and #Kuwait on verge of suspending gas and oil exports.

🔴 Iran attacking Amazon data centers across Middle East, leading to internet outages for banks and government resources.

⚡️⚡️🇩🇪 #Germany began evacuating its citizens from Middle East countries. First plane already landed in Berlin.

⚡️🇫🇮☢️ #Finland Proposes Lifting Restrictions on Nuclear Weapons Transit and Presence


P.S. On video — attack on hotel in Kuwait

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#Iran War
Doomsday Sandwiches

It’s time to call the men in white coats to the White House, but Trump invited the priests instead.
✝️ 🇺🇸 POTUS has found a new, extravagant way to fix the mess on the Middle Eastern front: prayer circles in the Oval Office.

➡️ Déjà vu much? Russians under Putin fight fires and floods the exact same way. "Icons it is!"

❌🇮🇷 Meanwhile, the late Khamenei continues to shitpost on X threatening tweets with missiles (what a disgrace, what the hell is Grok doing? Zero national patriotism!)


🥕🗺 While two geezers — one technically dead, the other technically alive — continue to lose their minds in their own special ways, the Arabs are suddenly very interested in a pressing question: what the fuck are we going to eat?
As it turns out, the entire Middle Eastern economy has survived for decades on a primitive scheme: oil for food.

🇦🇪 #UAE imports 80-90% of its food.

🇸🇦 #Saudi_Arabia — 80%.

🇰🇼 #Kuwait — 95%.

❗️Dubai has exactly 10 days of fresh food left, according to Stefan Paul, CEO of logistics giant Kühne+Nagel, in an interview with Heute.


Everyone has their own priorities
🇺🇸 Hegseth and Brad Cooper (CENTCOM Commander) happily reported their "achievements":
✅ Over the past 72 hours, US bombers struck nearly 200 targets deep inside Iran.

✅ In the last hour, B-2A Spirit bombers dropped dozens of 2,000-pound bunker-busters aimed at deep-underground ballistic missile launchers.

✅ Iranian missile strikes have dropped by 90% since day one, and drone strikes by 81%.

✅ We sank over 30 Iranian ships.


➡️ "US troops in Iran ditched PC war rules," — Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth.
⏺Conscience or basic humanity? MIA too:

NYT reported that the strike on a girls' primary school Shajareh Tayyebeh in Minab, Iran, which killed 171 children and 14 staff members, was carried out by the US Air Force, not Israel.


🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Fox News, backing up claims of outstanding American successes on all fronts, broadcasted footage of Ukrainian STING interceptor drones hitting Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drones in Ukraine, passing it off as incredible US AI drone technology currently crushing Iran.

➡️✈️Meanwhile, in reality: the valiant US Air Force successfully bombed painted Iranian planes on tarmac.
Meanwhile, US intel/military yanked staff from ME (friendly fire flashbacks?)

🇮🇷 #Iran is eagerly waiting for the #US to finally launch a ground operation, which "will become hell for them." As it known, the first attempt at a ground phase via Iraq was a total flop.

"Yeah, right!"
🇺🇸 Trump immediately called the idea of a ground invasion of Iran a "waste of time" (NBC News) and stated:
We had no choice. They were going to hit us if we didn’t hit them because they are crazy, not us."

As they say, there's no arguing over flavors of nuts. Putin said the exact same thing about Ukraine in 2022.

UPD:
⚡️🇨🇺 Trump also stated that after Iran there will be #Cuba — Rubio will "prepare everything."

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#US vs. #IRAN — Middle East #War: Market Meltdown

⚡️💸📉Bitcoin crashed to $68,000. The entire crypto market is bleeding.

⚠️📉 Not just crypto — the entire US stock market is on fire because of Trump's war.
Investors lost over $800 billion in minutes.

⚡️🛢📈 Brent crude surged to $92/barrel — first time since 2024. Oil is up 43% since the start of this year.
@banki_oil

➡️ The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Key stats: ~25% of all global seaborne oil trade passes through Hormuz.

• 🇸🇦 37% — #Saudi Arabia

• 🇮🇶🇦🇪🇮🇷🇰🇼 Followed by #Iraq, #UAE, #Iran, #Kuwait

Top buyers:

• 🇨🇳 #China — 37.7% of all shipments

• 🇮🇳 #India — 14.7%

For comparison, in 2017:

• 🇨🇳 China bought 26% of Iranian oil

• 🇮🇳 India — 20%

• 🇪🇺 Europe — 19%

• 🇰🇷 South Korea — 12%

Today Europe buys zero — nearly all its oil comes from #Russia (including via India).

Conclusion: The Kremlin is playing by its own rules — and winning.


🇺🇸🛢 Depleted oil reserves make the US vulnerable if the war with Iran drags on — Financial Times

➡️ Here's why Trump needs this war: The US economy "unexpectedly" lost 92,000 jobs in February 2026 alone — WSJ (confirmed: PBS, NBC, EPI — unemployment rose to 4.4%)

🇦🇪💵🪖❌🇺🇦 Gulf states are willing to pay more for weapons: The US approved a $184M Patriot missile system deal for the UAE — instead of Ukraine. (confirmed: Raytheon contract, $183.7M, approved March 4-5)

⚡️⚡️UPD:
❌💸 BlackRock just froze $1.2B in withdrawal requests at its private credit fund.
What happened:
• Investors in BlackRock's $26B fund asked to pull out 9.3% of their money
• BlackRock said no — capped withdrawals at 5%
• Blackstone's $82B fund saw record withdrawal requests the same week
• Blackstone had to put in $400M of its own cash to cover the exits


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#US vs. #IRAN #War
Second phase of the war: neither oil nor water
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST · Part 1: #OIL

🇺🇸🇮🇱🔥🛢🇮🇷 Having fortunately refrained from a nuclear strike, Washington and Tel Aviv have moved to the second phase of the war, simultaneously attacking Iran's oil infrastructure and triggering an environmental catastrophe

FACTS:
➡️ Oil depots are burning across Tehran.
⏺Massive columns of smoke rise above fuel tanks at oil refineries, blanketing the skies over Iran's capital.

⏺Following a massive US and Israeli attack on an oil storage facility in Rey, south of Tehran, crude oil entered the sewage system and ignited fires in the streets.

⏺CNN reports black, oil-contaminated rain falling over Tehran following US and Israeli airstrikes.

⏺ Yesterday the White House declared it "wants" to "take oil out of the hands of terrorists" — and hours later bombed Iranian oil facilities, triggering an environmental catastrophe in the Tehran metro area, home to 14 million people.


🔴 The IDF confirmed the attacks and released initial results:
"The Israeli Air Force, under the guidance and in cooperation with Military Intelligence (Aman) and the Operations Directorate (Amatz), recently struck several fuel storage facilities in Tehran."

• Over 300 targets were hit over the weekend with approximately 1,500 munitions.

• Israeli Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar personally participated in bombing raids on Iran, flying an F-15 fighter jet.


🔴 US officials are discussing the possible seizure of Iran's oil terminal on Kharg Island — Axios

Collateral damage:
📈💵Average US gasoline prices rose to $3.45, the highest since September 2024.
But Trump, as usual, casually declared that oil prices would go down.

REASONS:
➡️#Israel understands and is in a hurry: the US-backed war may end within a week — the Pentagon is critically short of funds to continue the war at its initial pace.
• Just one week into the war, the US-Israeli coalition was forced to sharply reduce strikes on Iran: the daily volume of attacks dropped by 55–65%.

• According to a CENTCOM bulletin, US forces struck 1,250 targets in the first 48 hours and 1,700 targets in the first 72 hours.


OBJECTIVE:
➡️ The logic behind the oil carnage: closing the Strait of Hormuz poses catastrophic risks to Asia's entire energy security.
🇦🇪🇰🇼 #UAE and #Kuwait are cutting oil production due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — Bloomberg

Asia remains critically dependent on Middle Eastern oil and LNG transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The latest data shows that ~85–90% of crude oil and ~82–90% of LNG (from Qatar/UAE) flow to Asian countries:
🇨🇳 #China accounts for ~38% of oil volume
🇮🇳 #India ~15%
🇰🇷 #South_Korea ~12%.


🛢📈 WTI crude oil prices surged more than 35% this week — the largest weekly gain in 43 years.

BENEFICIARIES:
➡️ 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 ❌🇨🇳 By engineering an environmental catastrophe in Iran, the US is pulling the chair out from under Beijing — while simultaneously handing Russia carte blanche in its war against Ukraine, now in its fifth year.
Russia is the second beneficiary after the US. Oil at $93+ (Murban), WTI +35%. Every dollar of oil price increase means billions into the Russian budget.

Russia was suffocating at $60+ (with $70 baked into the budget). At $90+ the Kremlin breathes freely. Washington understands this better than anyone — remember Trump's words: "At $40 a barrel, Russia can't afford to fight."

The oil price surge is not a side effect. It's part of the deal. The Anchorage agreement is bearing fruit.


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#US vs. #IRAN #War
🔥Second phase of the war: neither oil nor water
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST · Part 2: #WATER & #URANIUM

⚡️BREAKING:
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Axios, citing informed sources, reports negotiations between the US and Israel on plans to send special forces into Iranian territory to seize uranium stockpiles:
The US is considering deploying special forces to capture Iran's nuclear arsenal.

❗️Note: in the editors' opinion, this may be a planted story — the US lacks the capacity for a ground operation.

⚡️"Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying American troops on Iranian soil" — NBC News
➡️ Why haven't they been deployed yet, and why did the attack through Iraq stall?


📝 ⚔️Information warfare in progress:

🇦🇪 🚀🇮🇷 The #UAE struck an Iranian desalination plant for the first time — Israeli media

🇮🇷🚀 🇦🇪 The UAE, in turn, claims that Iran struck the Emirates hardest, carrying out 42.8% of all attacks (over 1,276) — more than double Israel's 20.1% (approximately 600 attacks).

🇰🇼 🇧🇭 🇸🇦 Next in scale is #Kuwait at 16.8% (approximately 500 attacks), while #Bahrain (6.6%) and #Saudi_Arabia (5.4%) account for a smaller share of the nearly 2,981 recorded attacks.


🇮🇷🚀🇧🇭 Bahrain's Ministry of Interior stated that an Iranian drone caused "material damage" to their desalination facility.
💧 Persian Gulf states rely on desalination for more than 85–90% of their drinking water.

🇶🇦 #Qatar depends on desalination for nearly 100%
🇰🇼🇧🇭 #Kuwait and #Bahrain ~ 90%
🇴🇲 #Oman — 86%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 70%.

🇧🇭 Bahrain allows the US to use its territory to strike Iran, and confirms that the US previously bombed an Iranian desalination plant.
The strike was carried out after US airstrikes, supported by Israel, hit an Iranian desalination plant on Qeshm Island.


🇺🇸 When asked whether the US attacked a water desalination plant in Iran, Trump responded in classic fashion:
Iranians are "some of the most vicious people on Earth," "They cut babies' heads off..."

As seen in the video, Witkoff and Hegseth nod in agreement.


➡️ For US financial losses in the war against Iran, read on.

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Forwarded from 🔰 Military-News
🪖🧱 Wounded and killed in Operation “Epic Fury” / “Lion’s Roar”, as of 11. March 2026, according to official data compiled by Al Jazeera:

🇮🇷 Iran: 1,255 dead, 12,000 wounded
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 570 dead, 1,444 wounded
🇮🇱 Israel: 13 dead, about 2,000 wounded
🇮🇶 Iraq: 15 dead, dozens wounded
🇯🇴 Jordan: 14 wounded
🇰🇼 Kuwait: 6 dead, dozens wounded
🇧🇭 Bahrain: 2 dead, dozens wounded
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2 dead, 12 wounded
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates: 6 dead, 122 wounded
🇶🇦 Qatar: 16 wounded
🇴🇲 Oman: 1 dead, 5 wounded
🇺🇸 US Army: 8 dead, 140–150 wounded

#Bahrain #Iran #Iraq #Israel #Jordan #Kuwait #Lebanon #Oman #Qatar #SaudiArabia #UAE #USA
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