🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | MARCH 15th, DAY 16 RECAP:

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Iran and Hezbollah launched joint attacks on Israel throughout the day.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - The U.S. and Israel continued strikes on western Iran and parts of Tehran.

🇮🇷🇧🇭 - Iran directly struck Isa Air Base in Bahrain.

🇮🇳🇮🇷 - India’s Hindalco Industries halted output of extruded aluminium, a value-added aluminium product, due to a gas shortage following supply disruptions in the Middle East, according to a company notice seen by Reuters and two sources.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Secretary of Iran’s National Security Council Ali Larijani claims American officials plan to create an event similar to the 9/11 attacks and blame it on Iran.

🇺🇦🇮🇱 - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has requested a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky to discuss acquiring Ukrainian interceptors. The call will take place next week, Ynet reports.

🇮🇶 - “All loading and export operations from the oil ports in Basrah, southern Iraq, have been halted,” Al Jazeera reports, citing an official from Iraq’s oil sector.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - A massive fire broke out at Victoria Base in Baghdad, Iraq, after rockets struck the camp. Multiple people were injured. (A U.S. military logistical facility was directly struck multiple times throughout the day.)

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Chinese satellite imagery indicates that the USS Abraham Lincoln has moved away from Iran’s coast and is now operating near Salalah, Oman, behind the coastal mountain range. The carrier is now more than 1,100 km from Iran, after previously being observed about 350 km from the Iranian coast. The USS Gerald R. Ford has also repositioned, moving further south in the Red Sea and operating off the coast of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Israel and Lebanon will hold talks in the coming days, according to Reuters, citing two Israeli officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - “To keep the Strait of Hormuz open, the [Arab Gulf] countries in the region will have to join the fight against Iran. The countries that receive the oil are the ones that must participate,” President Trump said.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The U.S. is set to announce a coalition of multiple countries that will escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reports.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇮🇷 - President Trump warned that NATO faces a “very bad future” if allies fail to help the U.S. in the Iran war, according to the Financial Times.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - President Trump claims Iran is using AI to create videos of kamikaze boats striking tankers and other ships, and he also accused the U.S. media of “treason.”

🇮🇷🇦🇪 - A drone struck a fuel depot at Dubai International Airport, causing a huge fire. Authorities are working to contain it, according to Dubai’s Media Office. (Flights were temporarily suspended at the airport.)

🇺🇸🇦🇺🇮🇷 - Australia will not send naval ships to assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said on Monday.

🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇷 - “There is currently no plan to deploy the Japanese navy to the Middle East for vessel escort duties,” Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - President Trump is considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, which would require boots on the ground, if tankers continue to be bottled up in the Persian Gulf, according to Axios.

🛢 - Oil futures continue to rise amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2033015490931523910?s=20

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump defends and praises Mark Levin, saying those who speak negatively about him are “NOT MAGA!”

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- The U.S. Victoria base in Baghdad has been targeted by rockets again, according to Al Jazeera.

🇮🇱⚡️- Mark Levin responds to Trump thanking him for his "beautiful note".

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Explosions in the United Arab Emirates.

🇮🇱⚡️- Despite everything the world is still very funny and you should be happy you are around to see it.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Insane footage showing a bombing of a Cyber Security base in Hamadan, western Iran.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- Explosions heard in Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- As per Axios, Trump is considering seizing Iran's Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, responsible for 90% of Iran's crude exports.

While the capture would effectively annihilate Iran's already struggling economy, it would require US boots on the ground. Axios, citing US officials, also worry of an Iranian retaliation against energy facilities in neighbouring Gulf countries.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been secretly advising Trump to keep hitting Iran hard, despite Riyadh's public rhetoric against the war, the New York Times reports.

🇮🇷🇦🇪🇵🇸⚡- An Iranian missile struck a vehicle in the al-Bahyah district of Abu Dhabi, the UAE, killing a Palestinian national.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Rocket alerts in northern Israel.

Likely launched by Hezbollah.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missiles launches detected from Iran, to Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports impacts in open fields.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens activated in central Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- A rocket was also reportedly launched from Gaza.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The missile was a cluster munition ballistic missile 2 impact sites are reported and emergency services are investigating if they're cluster munition impacts or debris.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The IDF last night (Monday) precisely destroyed the plane of the leader of the Iranian terror regime at "Mehrabad" airport in Tehran.

The plane was used by Ali Khamenei, leader of the Iranian terror regime, other senior figures from the terror regime, and elements in the Iranian military, to advance military procurement and manage relations with axis countries through domestic and international flights.

The destruction of the plane harms the coordination capability of the leadership of the Iranian terror regime with axis countries, the building of military power, and the regime's rehabilitation capability." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli forces have begun a 'limited' ground invasion of southern Lebanon.