🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The US wants to end the war with Iran by April 9th, Yediot Ahronoth reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- In a call with President Trump less than 48 hours before the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, Israeli PM Netanyahu argued for the joint killing of Ayatollah Khamenei, according to Reuters.

Netanyahu expressed to Trump how there might never be a better chance to kill Khamenei and avenge Iranian efforts to assassinate Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡️- BREAKING: Rockets launched from Mosul, Iraq, are targeting the U.S. military base in northeastern Syria, according to Reuters.

🇨🇴⚡️- One person is confirmed dead with 77 more hospitalized following the Colombian C-130 Hercules transport plane crash, according to Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro.

43 people remain unaccounted for.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Joe Kent praised President Trump for lying about having a deal with Iran while Trump himself shit on Kent today for remarrying quickly after his first wife was killed.

🇭🇹🇹🇩🇰🇪⚡️- Chad will send around 800 police officers to Haiti as a part of the UN’s Gang Suppression Force in an effort to reduce gang activity within Haiti.

For context, Kenya began the operation in 2024 and has seen little success, with three officers dying in the process. Kenya withdrew 215 officers on March 17th and plans to withdraw all remaining officers by April 15th.

Chad sent officers to the U.S. for training in preparation for the operation, which the State Department denies.

The new force will consist of about 5,500 personnel, with backing from the U.N. Office in Port-au-Prince, including weapons, equipment, and funding.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The Trump Administration is quietly weighing Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad ⁠Bagher Ghalibaf as a potential partner and future leader in Iran, according to Politico.

Ghalibaf is seen by some in the White House as a workable partner who could negotiate with the Trump administration in the next phase of the war.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf seemingly denied reports of any negotiations between the United States and Iran, saying they were nothing more than manipulation of financial and oil markets.

It is unclear how Ghalibaf would take over the country or why, considering he is a major IRGC-linked hardliner and is considered extremely anti-U.S. and anti-Israel by many experts.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian cluster munitions impacted in parts of Haifa, northern Israel.

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

🇨🇴⚡️- The death toll in the Colombian C-130 crash has risen to 34, according to Putumayo governor Jhon Gabriel Molina Acosta.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Two energy infrastructure sites in Isfahan and Khorramshahr, Iran, have been attacked, according to the Fars News Agency.

“The Gas Authority building and the gas reduction station on Kaveh Street in Isfahan were struck, resulting in damage to parts of these facilities and surrounding homes. At the same time, reports emerged that the gas pipeline to the Khorramshahr power plant was targeted.”

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "At least two vessels transiting through the strait are understood to have paid in exchange for safe passage, with one fee reported to have been around $2m," - Lloyd's List.

🇺🇸⚡️- The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin as President Trump's new Secretary of Homeland Security.

Mullin will replace Kristi Noem, who was fired by President Trump earlier this month.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Explosions heard in Bahrain.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens reported in Kuwait, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸⚡️- A massive fire erupted at Valero's oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas following reports of an explosion. The cause of the explosion is currently unknown.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Valero has become the top foreign refiner of Venezuelan crude oil since the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January.

The refinery at Port Arthur is Valero's largest, with the ability to process 435,000 barrels of oil per day.