🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇸🇦🇦🇪— Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are moving closer to supporting US-Israeli war efforts by expanding access to bases and preparing for a longer conflict.

Officials say Riyadh has shifted its focus to “supporting the US war effort as a means of punishing Iran,” but both countries remain cautious, warning that direct offensive involvement could “open a Pandora’s box.”

Source: MEE

Some key headlines from a new Middle East Eye article:

- UAE prepared for a war lasting up to nine months

- Saudi Arabia opens King Fahd Air Base to USA

- US asks Saudi Arabia to launch strikes against Iran

- Trump and Mohammed bin Salman hold regular phone calls

Middle East Eye:

US forces are preparing to launch strikes against Iran from an area near Mecca.

This location was chosen to allow more time and space to intercept and shoot down Iranian drones before they reach their targets.

The air base in Taif has been a US military base since 2018.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇴 — Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward the U.S.-U.K. base at Diego Garcia, but neither missile hit the target, according to WSJ, citing U.S. officials.

－Iran’s targeting of Diego Garcia, about 4,000 kilometers from Iran, suggests its missiles could have a greater range than Tehran has previously acknowledged.

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🌟🇮🇶❌🇺🇸— The US occupation base Victoria at Baghdad airport was targeted again.

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Eid Fitr Mubarak brothers and sisters

May Allah grant us and you the victory against this Satanic pedophile Axis

Stay Safe y'all

And don't forget MES Owner in your prayers 🙏

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🇮🇷🇷🇺— Putin congratulates Iranian leaders on Nowruz and affirms Moscow's commitment as a reliable partner to Tehran.

— The Kremlin

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🇮🇶— An explosion was heard in the Mansour district of central Baghdad, near the Moroccan embassy, and smoke was seen rising from the area.

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🇮🇶❌🇺🇸— Head of the Security Media Cell, Lieutenant General Saad Maan:

The Iraqi intelligence service was attacked by a drone in the Mansour area

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My source in the Islamic Resistance of Iraq told me that the targeted location housed American officers.

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🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Multiple Iranian news outlets reported that the nuclear facility at Natanz was again attacked by US and Israeli force.

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🇮🇷/🇺🇸🇮🇱 ☄️ BREAKING - Public Relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that they shot down an Israeli F-16:

The Public Relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that a third fighter jet belonging to the Zionist enemy, an F-16, was targeted at 3:45 am today in central Iran by advanced air defense systems.

The successful operations during the first three weeks of the war confirmed the destruction of more than 200 aircraft, including drones, cruise missiles, refueling aircraft, and advanced fighters, reflecting the enhancement of the monitoring and response capability to intruders in the skies of Iran and the region, and the strengthening of national air defense systems.

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