🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- Visual confirmation shows the sky in Qatar glowing after Iranian missiles have just struck the Ras Laffan refinery for the second time today. Locals tell Rerum Novarum that Patriot interceptors were launched but failed to intercept the Iranian ballistic missile.

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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Clashes between Hezbollah forces and IDF soldiers are ongoing after Hezbollah ambushed and targeted three Israeli Merkava tanks in Taybeh, southern Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian ballistic missile launches to central Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | MARCH 18th, DAY 19 RECAP:

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israeli media says that, according to the latest estimates, Hezbollah still has several thousand short-range rockets.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - According to Israeli media, Iran's intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was the target of an assassination strike in Tehran last night.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has released a photo of his son in intensive care after he was wounded in clashes with Hezbollah; he can be seen on a ventilator.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Clashes between Hezbollah forces and IDF soldiers are ongoing after Hezbollah ambushed and targeted six Israeli Merkava tanks in Taybeh, southern Lebanon.

🇹🇷 - NATO is deploying an additional Patriot system in southern Turkey.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israel attacked Iran's largest natural gas facility in South Pars; the U.S. signed off on it.

🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Iran targeted large Saudi oil facilities, including the Riyadh Industrial Complex 2 and Saudi Aramco; multiple ballistic missile impacts were confirmed and large fires are ongoing.

🇮🇷🇶🇦 - Iran has struck and targeted Qatar's Ras Laffan refinery twice in the span of 12 hours; large fires are ongoing. It is the largest natural gas export facility in the world.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran targeted Israel with cluster munitions; reports indicate multiple impacts, multiple wounded, and one confirmed death.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Over $800 billion was wiped from the U.S. stock market today, as the Dow Jones posted its lowest close of 2026 so far.

🛢 - Brent oil is over $111 per barrel; crude oil is over $98 per barrel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - The U.S. is building up forces for an extended operation to secure the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. and Arab forces will provide troops, while Israel provides intelligence, according to Kann News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Satellite imagery and verified footage analyzed by ABC News suggest at least 10 radar sites have been struck, including expensive and sensitive systems critical to early warning networks. Analysis also identified over 25 strike locations across seven bases in five countries, hitting facilities such as hangars, fuel storage, and logistics buildings. Radar systems in at least seven countries were targeted, including AN/TPY-2 systems linked to THAAD defenses and a phased-array radar in Qatar. The full extent of the damage remains unclear due to limited satellite data.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲 - "America's friends must help get it out of an illegitimate war." - Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi.

🇮🇷 - Iranian speedboats were seen leaving the scene after attacking a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, according to satellite imagery.

🇷🇺🇮🇷 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, expressing his condolences over the death of senior Iranian official Ali Larijani.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - "President Trump wants no more strikes on Iranian energy sites after Israel’s Wednesday attack on a vital Iranian gas field, U.S. officials said. Trump, who knew about the Israeli strike on South Pars in advance, supported it as a message to Tehran over its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The president believes Iran got the message and is now against attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure, the officials said." - WSJ.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a funding request of over $200 billion for the war in Iran. It will need to go through Congress, according to The Washington Post.

🇮🇷🇦🇪 - UKMTO reported that a vessel has been struck by a projectile 11 nautical miles east of Khawr Fakkan, United Arab Emirates.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The Trump administration is considering deploying thousands of additional U.S. troops to the Middle East as Trump weighs next steps regarding Iran, which could include an attempt to secure the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters.

🇺🇸 - The FBI is investigating Joe Kent for allegedly leaking classified information, confirmed by Fox News and Semafor.

Here's our recap from yesterday, thanks for all of the support recently: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2034091765569904866?s=20

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump says that Israel attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field earlier today without informing the United States or Qatar.

He added that Israel will not carry out further attacks on Iranian gas facilities and warned Iran not to target gas and oil infrastructure in Gulf states, following Iranian strikes on major facilities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to northern Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: “U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live, according to three people briefed on the situation. Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said.” - WaPo.

🇺🇸⚡️- “The drones over Fort McNair prompted officials to weigh relocating Rubio and Hegseth, two of the people briefed said. The senior administration official said the secretaries haven’t moved.” - WaPo.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian ballistic missile launches to northern Israel, again.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to northern Israel, for the third time in an hour.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Alerts all over the United Arab Emirates.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- NASA FIRMS shows an ongoing fire at the Yanbu oil refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, along the Red Sea coast.

Iranian media claimed they struck the facility with missiles, and FIRMS appears to confirm this.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to central Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Audio of a Hezbollah ground commander confirming they targeted and struck seven Israeli Merkava tanks during clashes earlier today in Taybeh, southern Lebanon.

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🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to northern Israel.

🇪🇺⚡️- European gas price are rising by +30% already today.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- 177 Israelis have been injured in the last 24 hours, according to Israel's Health Ministry.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- A drone struck the Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery in Kuwait, resulting in a fire, according to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- A drone struck an oil refinery within Yanbu's port in Saudi Arabia.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- Saudi Arabia indicates they shot down a missile aimed at the port.