🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇧🇭🇶🇦🇦🇪 Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told Al Jazeera that the reason Iranian drones started hitting hotels and apartment buildings in Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE was because the U.S. didn't airlift its troops from the Gulf Countries, it booked rooms instead in nearby hotels.

📝: The U.S. soldiers killed yesterday or today were likely in one of the hotels/apartment buildings in the Gulf Countries. CENTCOM had them retreat from the bases which had fortified air raid shelters and air defense systems and put them into unprotected hotels.

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷📝: The information we have available today suggests Khamenei's home was targeted in the opening round of US-Israeli strikes, likely between 8:30am and 9:30am Jerusalem time.

The Iranian response began at 11:00am. This means that every Iranian offensive action we've seen so far occurred *after* Khamenei was killed.

American planners were likely hoping that the initial shock would result in discoordination. Instead, the Iranians immediately jumped about halfway up their escalatory ladder by striking not just US bases in the Gulf states, but Gulf infrastructure, and retaliated dramatically faster than they did in the 12 Day War. They then closed the Strait of Hormuz.

Whatever Trump was trying to achieve by killing Khamenei clearly failed, and failed immediately. This is the strongest Iranian response we've ever seen, and the entirety of it occurred after Khamenei was already dead.

Iranian drone and missile barrages so far are smaller but much more constant than those during the 12 Day War. This suggests the Iranians have reformed their command and control to be more decentralized and resilient to decapitation strikes. And yet, they managed to hit every major US base in the region over a very short period of time.

🔗 Amerikanets

🇺🇸📊🇮🇷 Only one in four Americans approves of the US strikes that killed Iran's leader.

About half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/just-one-four-americans-support-us-strikes-iran-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-03-01/

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇮🇱 Several US Air Force C-17 Cargo planes are en route to Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan, Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait & Ovda Air Base, Israel.

🔗 MenchOSINT

🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — United States CENTCOM confirms that United States Air Force (USAF) B-2 Stealth Bombers participated on the strikes against the Islamic Republic last night:

Last night, U.S. B-2 stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 lb. bombs, struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missile facilities. No nation should ever doubt America's resolve.

🔗 U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM)

🇨🇳🤝🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Meanwhile, there are now celebrations among the Chinese liberal opposition circles as they see the Islamic Republic of Iran as a Vassal of the Chinese Communist Party in middle east

🇨🇳🤝🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Rei Xia, one of Shanghai's White Paper Movement protest leaders & part of the Chinese Democratic Party, a self-declared "Proud Feminist", celebrated the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei;

Victory to Iran.

Xi Jinping, you are the next.

🔗 夏巢川 Rei Xia (@karasu_ga_warau)

🇮🇷📺📉 — Following Israeli Air Force raids on Tehran, all of Iran’s state TV channels are down. It’s just a black screen.

We are potentially entering the final hours

🔗 Throwback Iran (@Tarikh_Eran)

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — New satellite images from Plant Satelite of IRGC's Tabriz North Missile Base show collapsed tunnel entrances and damage from recent strikes.

🔗 Brady Africk (@bradyafr)

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — The moment when the Israel Air Force targeted the building and studio of IRIB, the state broadcaster of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tehran, this evening.

The IRIB presenter announced it live TV

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 — 3 days before the war, Iranian Academic Hossein Royvaran claimed:

An American Attack on Iran Will Not Be a Walk in the Park

U.S. Would Suffer 5,000 Casualties in Iran’s First Strike on an Aircraft Carrier
Russia and China Supplied “Large, High-Quality” Weapons to the IRGC

🇺🇸 Secretary of State Marco Rubio has established the Middle East Task Force, composed of senior Trump administration officials, to coordinate the safe departure and support of Americans in the region. The task force is now fully operational and working around the clock amid heightened tensions.

Gillian Turner: “[Secretary of State Marco Rubio] has directed his team here at the State Department to stand up a task force… to oversee efforts to try and help as many Americans as possible in the Middle East as this war has broken out.”

“There are about give or take 300K American civilians spread across the region on any given day. This is a top-tier priority for the Secretary. The task force is now operational.”

🔗 RedWave Press (@RedWavePress)