A mayor and his deputy were shot by a gunman inside a restaurant in northern Israel.

Police have launched an investigation, and the motive and suspects remain unclear.

Iran's Larijani on Iran's new Supreme Leader Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei:

The new Supreme Leader is capable of leading the country during these sensitive circumstances.

We call for standing united behind the new Supreme Leader.

The Assembly of Experts chose a new leader despite threats to bomb the council.

Leadership of Iran’s Armed Forces pledge allegiance to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

BREAKING: CENTCOM says a U.S. National Guard soldier died during a "medical emergency" in Kuwait on March 6.

The exact cause of death is under review.

BREAKING: Oil rises above $100 per barrel for the first time since July 2022.

The BAPCO refinery, the largest oil refinery in Bahrain, was hit by Iranian strikes earlier this morning.

🛢️📈 Oil prices spiked ~26–30% overnight, one of the biggest single-day moves in decades.

WTI ~$118, Brent ~$116, with extreme volatility (3–5% swings).

— Some analysts warn of $150+ oil if conflict continues.

— Trigger: Iran–US–Israel conflict disrupting the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump after seeing oil prices:

Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World.

ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!

Senator Graham to Israel after Israeli strikes hit oil depots in Iran:

Please be cautious about what targets you select.

The U.S. military destroyed a boat in the eastern Pacific on Sunday, killing six people suspected of drug smuggling.

Trump told The Times of Israel that the decision on when to end the war with Iran will be made together with Netanyahu, though he said he will ultimately decide “at the right time.”

“I think it’s mutual… We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time.”

Trump on Iran:

Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it.

Source: The Times of Israel

Trump:

Bibi Netanyahu should be given that pardon immediately.

Source: The Times of Israel

Trump on Iran:

Many people will disarm because of [the war against Iran], because right now Iran is in a position that it’s never known before, and it’s only going to get worse for them.

Source: The Times of Israel

Hegseth on Iran:

Unconditional surrender means we're fighting to win. It means we set the terms.

We'll know when they're not capable of fighting.

They will be combat ineffective. They will surrender.

Hegseth on Iran:

We want peace... But if war is necessary, we’re going to fight to win.

Hegseth on Iran:

Trump is right when he says we obliterated their nuclear program. He’s right. We did. We dropped those bombs exactly where they needed to be, set them back.

But that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped their pursuit.

Hegseth on Iran:

We want the Iranians guessing and second-guessing and triple-guessing what we might be willing to do, because under Trump, we just might.

Hegseth on Iran:

It’s not a regime change war in the conventional George W. Bush context of hundreds of thousands of troops.

I mean, in Afghanistan what I watched as a young captain was Americans thinking we were going to remake a society that was basically biblical times with AK-47s and cell phones.

The hubris of thinking we were going to take Afghanistan and turn it into a Jeffersonian democracy by building Western-style forces and Western-style institutions — it was never going to work.

This is not a remaking of Iranian society from an American perspective. We tried that. The American people have rejected that.