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SvennoJ on 17 March 2026
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Can Trump afford to start more wars, he's already pulling soldiers and equipment from other places to help the failing illegal war against Iran. Meanwhile Israel just keeps escalating the conflict.

Israel says Iranian official killed: Israel says it killed Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official and one of its most powerful decision-makers. The head of the Basij, Iran’s feared paramilitary force, has also been killed, Israel said. Iran has not yet commented on the claims.


Buildings destroyed by US-Israeli attacks in Tehran

Regional strikes: Israel says it started new strikes on “regime infrastructure” in Tehran and Hezbollah targets in Beirut. Israel’s military carried out a wave of new air attacks in southern Lebanon, including one that injured five Lebanese soldiers.


Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs

US Embassy hit: A blast was heard close to the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, as videos geolocated by CNN appeared to show air defense systems engaging a projectile close to the compound. The embassy was previously attacked on Saturday. Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi suspended operations at a gas field after a drone attack, and a tanker reported being struck by an “unknown projectile” near a UAE oil port.

Debris from strikes killed a Pakistani national in Abu Dhabi and injured two medics in Kuwait, as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait all report intercepting missiles and drones.

Strait of Hormuz: NATO allies have decided against expanding naval operations around the Strait of Hormuz despite President Donald Trump’s criticism of allies for a lack of support. A senior Iran leader says the waterway “cannot be the same as before.”

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said “nobody is ready to put their ⁠people in harm’s way” in the Strait of Hormuz, after Trump appealed for an international naval coalition to secure the waterway.


Israel just keeps trying to eliminate the public figureheads which hasn't worked the last 100 times, but this time it will...


IRGC commander: ‘New phase’ of Iranian strikes has begun

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency says Sardar Mousavi, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, has announced a “new phase of effective and heavy strikes across the region against the American-Zionist enemy”.

“The backbone of arrogance will be broken in the streets and squares”, he added.

We reported earlier on an IRGC announcement that it had been carrying out an intense wave of attacks on US and Israeli positons throughour the region since dawn, using millies as well as drones.

US National Counterterrorism Center director resigns over war in Iran

The head of the ⁠United States’ National ⁠Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, has resigned ‌over the US-Israel war on Iran.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote in a letter to Donald Trump ⁠posted on ⁠X. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”




UN warns of record hunger, 45 million more at risk, if Iran war continues

Tens of millions more people will face acute hunger if the United States-Israel war on Iran, and its reverberations through Iran’s retaliation, continue through to June, the United Nations warned.

“If the Middle East conflict continues through June, an additional 45 million people could be pushed into acute hunger by price rises,” Carl Skau, the deputy executive director of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), said on Tuesday.

“This would take global hunger levels to an all-time record, and it’s a terrible, terrible prospect,” Skau said, with 319 million people, already a historic high, currently acutely food insecure.

Trump's hunger games.