Israel is bombing Tehran.

Putin held a phone call with UAE President MBZ to discuss the escalation in the Middle East.

WATCH: Non-stop U.S.–Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran.

Greece says it will send two frigates, 2 fighter jets to protect Cyprus after Iranian drone strikes.

NEW: Trump told The Telegraph he was “very disappointed” with Keir Starmer for initially blocking U.S. use of the Diego Garcia air base for strikes on Iran, saying the Prime Minister “took far too long” to approve access.

Trump on Iran:

[There are] people without arms and legs and faces that have been blown up. Iran is 95 per cent of those.

Those horrible events were caused by Iran.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal:

It was a very woke thing.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Iran:

We anticipated two to three weeks to take out some of the leadership, but we’ve taken out all of it in one day.

So that was well ahead of schedule. We always viewed it as a four-week operation.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Iran:

They want to make a deal badly. I said you should have made it a week ago.

Source: The Telegraph

Mike Pompeo to Iranians:

Don’t pick the Chinese. Don’t pick the Russians. Don’t pick the Ayatollah.

Stand with Western civilization. Be decent. Be a normal nation.

Iran hit the US-flagged tanker Stena Imperative while it was in the Port of Bahrain, setting the vessel on fire.

The Stena Imperative is a US-flagged medium-range product tanker enrolled in the US Maritime Administration’s Tanker Security Program.

Reza Pahlavi:

I am ready to go to Iran as soon as possible.

I would like to be there whether it is before the regime collapses or right after it collapses.

Cyprus: Smoke rises from area of British air base following alerts of Iranian drones.

Türkiye’s Transport Minister says flights to Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon have been canceled through March 6.

All planned flights to Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE are canceled until March 3.

BREAKING: QatarEnergy says it halted LNG production after military attacks on its facilities in Ras Laffan and Mesaieed.

NEW: A source close to the Saudi government told AFP that Riyadh may respond militarily to the coordinated Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities.

BREAKING: European gas prices jump more than 30% after QatarEnergy halts LNG production.

France: Iran Must Concede After Losing Its Leader

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said escalation with Iran must stop, urged Tehran to make concessions after losing its leader, backed Gulf states hit by missiles, and said US-Israel action should have been debated at the UN Security Council.

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Trump on Iran:

Nobody could have done this but me.

Source: ABC News

BREAKING: CENTCOM says four U.S. service members have been killed in action as of 7:30 a.m. ET, March 2, including one who later died of wounds sustained in Iran’s initial attacks.

Trump suggested that “success” in Venezuela has made him less willing to accept the concessions Iran offered in the final round of negotiations, telling Jonathan Karl that a year ago he would have accepted Tehran’s proposals, but now, “we have become spoiled.”