U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has published stills from today’s targeting of the IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi, a Soleimani-class corvette with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), off the coast of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM states that more than 20 ships with the IRGCN and Iranian Navy have been targeted and sunk since the start of Operation Epic Fury.

Video filmed from the deck of a bulk cargo ship in the Middle East shows several BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM) launched by the U.S. Navy pass overhead on their way towards targets in Iran.

B-2A “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers with the U.S. Air Force are expected to land at the British air base in Diego Garcia and at RAF Fairford “in a matter of days” to join attacks on Iran, according to sources who spoke to The Telegraph.

Reports of explosions and the activation of air defenses near Erbil International Airport in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.

Iraq has been plunged into a nationwide blackout, as explosions and possible strikes are reported across several areas of the country, according to sources with Iraq’s Electricity Ministry to Rudaw English.

Footage of additional U.S. strikes against ballistic and cruise missile launch sites in the south of Iran, published by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

The UK Ministry of Defense has announced that a Shahed-like attack drone which struck RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus overnight on March 2 was determined to have not been launched from Iran, likely instead originating from Lebanon.

Two Shahed-style attack drones, likely launched by Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon at RAF Akrotiri and/or other British bases in Cyprus, were downed Wednesday over the Eastern Mediterranean approaching Cyprus by F-16C Fighting Falcons with the Greek Hellenic Air Force.

During a closed-door briefing Tuesday with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine acknowledged that Iran’s Shahed-style attack drones represent a major challenge, posing a bigger problem than anticipated, adding that air defenses will not be able to intercept them all, two sources in the briefing told CNN.

Most leave has been cancelled for soldiers, warrant officers, and officers in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, with troops being placed on combat alert and deployed to the border with Iran, as the ongoing war between Israel, Iran and the United States enters its fourth day and continues to spread across the Middle East, sources have told the independent media outlet Qazetchi.

Kurdish paramilitary forces in Iraq have launched a ground military offensive into Iran against the Islamic Republic, with thousands of Kurdish fighters beginning to take combat positions inside Northwestern Iran on Monday, March 2, an Iranian Kurdish official tells i24NEWS.

Multiple strikes now across the Iranian capital of Tehran.

The Israeli Air Force has begun an additional wave of strikes targeting military infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime across Tehran.

Speaking to reporters earlier during an event at the White House, President Trump said that things are going well on the “warfront” with Iran, stating that on a scale of 1 to 10 he would rate it “about a 15,” before claiming, “I think if we didn't do it first, they [Iran] would have done it to Israel, and give us a shot if that was possible.”

U.S. officials have confirmed to Fox News that a “thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran.”

Multiple confirmations now including from Barak Ravid of Axios, citing a senior U.S. official, “Kurdish-Iranian militias have launched a ground offensive in northwestern Iran.”

Israeli officials confirm to N12 that Kurdish forces have engaged Iranian forces in Northwestern Iran.

Reports of gunfire and explosions over the Black Sea coastal city of Sukhumi in the Russian-backed Georgian breakaway nation of Abkhazia, amidst a possible drone attack, with air defense and electronic warfare activity confirmed by the Abkhazian Ministry of Defense.

The U.S. Senate just blocked the efforts of Democrats to force U.S. President Donald J. Trump to withdraw all stop the operation of U.S. forces against Iran.
The vote was 47-53.

The Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan had denied all reports today from media outlets, citing American, Israeli and Kurdish officials, regarding the start of a ground offensive by Iranian-Iraqi Kurds against forces of the Islamic Republic in Northwestern Iran.