🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 CENTCOM announced the death of another American soldier from injuries sustained in Kuwait on March 6th.

CENTCOM counts it as the 8th American casualty of the war, excluding for unclear reasons the NYPD officer and a USMC Lance Corporal who passed away in the Middle East during this conflict.

Added up, the latest CENTCOM announcement marks the 10th death among American servicemen.

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🇶🇦 JUST IN - Qatar arrests more than 300 people for "filming, circulating and publishing misleading information." — Times of Israel

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 In 2007 during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. had 320,000 troops in CENTCOM.

In 1991 during Desert Storm, there were 540,000. Today we have 50,000 troops in CENTCOM.

There wasn’t a draft then, there won’t be a draft now.

📝Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator: The logistics and manpower for an invasion of Iran like we saw in 1991 and 2003 are not present.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. Special Envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner cancelled their trip to Israel.

They were expected to arrive in Tel Aviv tomorrow. — Israeli Channel 12.

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🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱 Trump tells Israeli media that he will not end the war on Iran without Israel's consent

He also boasts that “we’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel”

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🇮🇩 Indonesia is doubling down on its resource nationalism strategy.

After banning exports of nickel ore, bauxite, and copper concentrate, the country is now considering additional restrictions on raw material exports.

Indonesia is doubling down on its resource nationalism strategy.

After banning exports of nickel ore, bauxite, and copper concentrate, the country is now considering additional restrictions on raw material exports.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Are CENTCOM’s reported figures for destroyed targets accurate?

Let’s examine what the visually confirmed evidence really shows.

Air Defense Systems SAM
12 (10 destroyed + 2 damaged)
- Khordad-15: 2 destroyed
- Sevom Khordad: 2 destroyed
- 9A331 TLAR for 9K331 Tor-M1: 1 destroyed
- M192 Launcher for HAWK SAM: 1 destroyed
- Majid SAM: 1 destroyed
- Qaem-118: 1 destroyed
- Unknown AD-System: 2 destroyed
- 2P25 TEL for 2K12 Kub: 1 damaged
- Arman: 1 damaged

Radars
6 (5 destroyed + 1 damaged)

Missile Launchers (TELs)
28 (27 destroyed + 1 damaged)

Aircraft
16 (14 destroyed + 2 damaged)
- SU-22M4: 3 destroyed
- C-130: 2 destroyed
- Northrop F-5 Tiger II: 2 destroyed
- MiG-29: 2 destroyed
- Unknown Aircraft: 3 destroyed
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: 1 destroyed
- Yak-130: 1 destroyed
- MiG-29: 2 damaged

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
2 (2 destroyed + 0 damaged)

Warships
11 (9 destroyed + 2 damaged)

Ground Vehicles
35 (28 destroyed + 7 damaged)

Towed Artillery
1 (1 destroyed + 0 damaged)

Anti-Aircraft Guns
8 (8 destroyed + 0 damaged)

Additional losses confirmed on March 8 update (not yet added to main totals above):
- 1 Ballistic Missile System (destroyed)
- 1 Fakur Command Post (destroyed)
- 1 Unknown Command Post (destroyed)
- 1 Kamaz 6x6 truck (destroyed)
- 1 Unknown Truck (destroyed)

Do you want to know the truth? These numbers are tiny compared to the Iranian arsenal, as they have, in fact, hidden all of their weaponry.

CENTCOM exaggerated about the numbers.

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🛢 The reason the price of crude oil went down after spiking to 116$/barrel was because G7 countries have begun releasing their oil reserves to lower the price.

The oil reserves are not infinite and while they may be able to control the price of oil, they can only do it as long as the oil reserves don't run out.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/09/g7-release-emergency-reserves-oil-price-us-middle-east-war

🇮🇷 Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, lost his father, mother, wife and one of his sons in the strike which killed Iran's former Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

Mojtaba Khamenei is a mystery to a lot of Iranians, he seldom appears in public and his personality is known only to a close circle of Iranian politicians and military commanders.

One thing is certain, Mojtaba Khamenei will not be looking to make peace with the US and Israel any time soon considering that they murdered his parents, wife and a son on top of the thousand other Iranians killed.

Iranian diaspora journalists write that Mojtaba is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War and played a significant role in the suppression of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests which led to the victory of hardline incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the imprisonment of reformist candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who still is in house arrest 17 years later.

The same source reports that Iran's new leader received the backing of the Supreme National Security Council and de-facto ruler of Iran, Ali Larijani and the IRGC, dashing any Western hopes that Iran's leaders would be more "flexible" to the pressure put on it and let the West loot its resources.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇦🇪 New Iranian attacks on the Fujairah oil terminal in the UAE.

NASA's FIRMS satellite shows new fires breaking out at

Fujairah is located on the Gulf of Oman, outside of the Strait of Hormuz and thus its possible to "safely" export oil.

These new attacks show a commitment from Iran to stop any oil exports from the UAE and deepen the oil crisis.

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🇧🇩 Bangladesh shuts universities, limits fuel sale as Iran war causes shortage

Bangladesh relies on imports for 95 percent of its energy needs, which have been disrupted after the Iran war engulfed the Middle East.

Authorities shut all public and private universities across the country from Monday, bringing forward the Eid ⁠al-Fitr holidays as part ⁠of emergency measures to conserve electricity and fuel.

Officials said the move will not only ⁠reduce electricity consumption but also ease traffic congestion, which leads to fuel wastage.

They said the university campuses consume large amounts of electricity for residential halls, classrooms, laboratories and air conditioning, and the early closure would help ‌ease pressure on the country’s strained power system.

Government and private schools are already closed for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, meaning most educational institutions across the country will now remain shut during the period.

🔗 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/bangladesh-shuts-universities-limits-fuel-sale-as-iran-war-causes-shortage

🌾 45% of urea production goes through the Strait of Hormuz. We are about to see another massive shock to fertiliser markets.

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🇺🇸🇸🇦 Multiple USAF tankers which had been supporting the USAF and IAF sorties from bases in Saudi Arabia have left for Europe.

They have been evacuated out of Prince Sultan Airbase.

The US can no longer protect this airbase given interceptor shortages.

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🇶🇦 QatarEnergy has delayed its major LNG expansion after a drone attack forced the shutdown of the Ras Laffan plant.

The North Field East project is now expected to begin exports in early 2027, assuming the facility reopens within about a month.

A longer outage—amid escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf—could push the timeline back further.

Source: Bloomberg

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