🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, originally set to deploy to the Indo-Pacific, have had their deployment process “accelerated and “rerouted” towards the Middle East, two US officials told CNN.

“The MEUs are rapid-response forces consisting of roughly 2,200 Marines and sailors. With the Amphibious Ready Group, the total number of personnel is roughly 4,500. While they can provide on-the-ground capabilities, the ARG-MEUs also come with aviation, logistics, and other support elements that provide more options to commanders and could “relieve pressure” on current operations in the Middle East, the first US official said.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "When the United States and Israel initiated the war against Iran last month, their messages were perfectly in sync on the sweeping goal of regime change.

But nearly three weeks into the conflict, the war aims are diverging between a U.S. President who saw the historic opportunity of a quick military victory with only modest economic pain and an Israeli leader with grander visions of toppling a regime he’s sought to vanquish for 40 years.

Trump’s latest outburst against Israel’s attacks on Iran’s huge South Pars gas field on Wednesday laid bare the tensions between the two allies and the inconsistency of the President’s approach to the conflict. While the U.S. was not involved in the strike, the Israelis informed Washington about the attack in advance," - The Washington Post, citing multiple US, Israeli and Middle East officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The goal of regime change is reflected in Israel’s military tactics. About 40 percent of its estimated 8,000 strikes have been against Iranian security forces and installations that would be used to suppress another popular uprising," - The Washington Post, citing a Middle East official.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is pursuing a scorched-earth campaign of regime change, which is not what our (the US) goal is. Bibi wants to wreck Iran’s economy and decimate its energy infrastructure. Trump wants to keep it intact," - The Washington Post, citing a senior US administration official.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡️- The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, is under criminal investigation by the Trump administration for alleged ties to drug trafficking.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "Russia proposed to the US it would stop intelligence sharing with Iran if the US stopped providing Ukraine with intelligence. The US rejected," - Politico.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷 - Putin's Envoy Kirill Dmitriev calls the Politico report fake.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️- “The UK approves the use of its bases for the US to launch strikes on Iranian sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz.” - BBC.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️- A 34-year-old Iranian man was arrested alongside a 31-year-old woman with an “unspecified ethnicity” for trying to enter Faslane nuclear naval base in Scotland.

The couple asked to enter, were denied, and were arrested afterward.

The investigation into the matter is ongoing. - BBC.

🇮🇶⚡️- BREAKING: Iraq declares force majeure on all oilfields developed by foreign oil companies, according to Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Two B-52 Bombers have entered Iranian airspace.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The US struck Bushehr Air Base, southern Iran, multiple times half an hour ago. Secondary explosions were reported, indicating ammunition depots were likely hit.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: "The US is preparing plans for the possibility of sending ground troops into Iran. No final decision has yet been made," - CBS.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Two loud explosions in the Isfahan countryside, central Iran.

Locals report the "shaking of the ground in the middle of the city."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Explosions at the Parchin Military Complex, south of Tehran.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇴⚡- "On March 19, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three narco-terrorists survived the strike. Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors. No U.S. military forces were harmed," - SOUTHCOM.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Pentagon is currently preparing updated plans for deploying US Troops into Iran taking into account the damage from airstrikes and the locations of Iranian drone/missile launches.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡- "Vast majority of the British People do not want any part in the Israel-U.S. war of choice on Iran.

Ignoring his own People, Mr. Starmer is putting British lives in danger by allowing UK bases to be used for aggression against Iran. Iran will exercise its right to self-defense," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli attacks on the al-Balatah barracks in Tartus, coastal Syria.

Correction: Gas storage facility at the barracks exploded. Israel only struck the al-Kiswah military headquarters near Damascus in its latest attacks on Syria.