Trump is preparing to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Trump has already asked aides and congressional Republicans for possible replacements.

Source: WSJ

Indian refiners are buying prompt Russian crude cargoes as the Iran conflict disrupts Middle East supplies.

India imports about 40% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz and holds roughly 25 days of crude stocks, leaving it vulnerable to supply shocks.

State refiners — including Indian Oil, BPCL, HPCL, and MRPL — have purchased around 20 million barrels of Russian oil from traders.

India had reduced Russian purchases earlier under U.S. pressure, but refiners are returning to the market as availability becomes more critical than price.

Source: Reuters

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spox. Esmaeil Baghaei:

What kind of threat can Iran pose to the United States?

Did we come to the Gulf of Mexico to target Los Angeles and other U.S. cities? Or did they come 6,500 miles away to Iranian shores?

Source: Drop Site News

The Pentagon says it has officially designated AI company Anthropic as a U.S. supply-chain risk.

Source: Bloomberg

Babies were evacuated from a hospital in Bushehr, Iran after the facility was damaged in US-Israeli strikes.

Medical staff and Iranian Red Crescent workers moved infants from the neonatal unit to ambulances for transfer to safer facilities.

Washington and Tel Aviv are preparing to reduce the intensity of attacks on Iran in order to continue carrying out strikes for a longer period of time.

Source: Kan News

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa:

There is broad media freedom, but there is also great chaos at the same time.

Today, anyone who thinks of something goes out and says it in the media. He might attack people on sectarian grounds, or affect a sensitive security situation.

Some people film a security incident live and publish it in the media while the cell has not yet been caught.

BREAKING: Trump:

I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026.

Trump:

Kristi Noem will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida.

Israeli Defense Minister Katz:

This regime must not appoint people who want to continue the program to destroy Israel.

Any senior governmental or military figure is in our sights.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

I express my appreciation to the proud and honorable people of Kurdistan who have stood by Iran during these historic days.

I share the grief of the families of the martyrs and the injured in these incidents.

The governor and the armed forces, as guardians of security, are duty-bound to decisively confront any separatist activities.

Israeli Defense Minister Katz:

We hope and expect that the Iranian people will take advantage of the operation to replace the regime.

Israeli Defense Minister Katz:

The understanding was that as long as Khamenei stands at the head of Iran, it will try to return to the same path of destroying Israel.

Therefore, the decision that was made is to thwart Khamenei.

We began preparing to carry out this objective in the middle of the year, and then the riots in Iran broke out, and we decided to move it forward.

Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir:

We are moving to a new phase in the fighting. We will deepen the damage to the Iranian regime.

We have additional surprising moves.

Houthi Leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi:

We affirm our support for Iran and its Muslim people, and we are ready to act at any moment.

The United States Department of State says it has suspended operations at its embassy in Kuwait City until further notice.

Biden's Secretary of State Blinken on Iran:

The Iranians put us in a position where we've used up a lot of interceptors to deal with defense, or even our offensive missiles to take out their launchers.

Or conversely, did they run out and we still have what we need?

I don't know the numbers here — I'm not privy to that — but it is something we have to be very attentive to because these things are not in infinite supply.

The production times are very long. And of course we're also using, in many cases, very expensive weapons to take down $20,000 drones. That's not a good equation if you keep that going over time.

Biden's Secretary of State Blinken on Iran:

What I'm worried about — one of the things I'm worried about — is we so deplete our arsenal and it takes a long time to rebuild it.

That puts us in a disadvantageous position when it comes to, say, a China or Russia.