🇶🇦🇮🇷 — Western sources told Israeli Channel 12:

"Qatar carried out strikes inside Iran in the past 24 hours".

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🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦 EU urges Ukraine to allow access to pipeline carrying Russian oil

Ukraine is under pressure to let the EU inspect a damaged pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, as the two pro-Kremlin countries accuse Kyiv of overstating the impact of an attack by Moscow — despite what Ukrainian officials say is evidence of extensive destruction.

Ukraine says it needs time to repair the Druzhba pipeline and has provided evidence of harm from a Russian air strike in January, but Hungary and Slovakia claim that Kyiv intentionally shut it off.

Hungary has delayed the approval of an EU loan for Ukraine until it is reopened, and proposed to send a fact-finding mission to Ukraine, together with Slovakia.

Now some pro-Ukraine EU governments and the European Commission are also asking Kyiv to allow a visit to prove that it is trying to restore oil flows, according to five EU diplomats and officials.

Two of them said that European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa, president of the European Council, had specifically asked Ukraine’s leadership during their visit to Kyiv on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion for access to the Druzhba pipeline in order to assess the damage independently, but were denied. The commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The dispute has become more urgent as energy prices soared after US and Israeli military action against Iran disrupted global oil and gas supplies. And it has intensified as Kyiv continues to refuse access to European inspectors.

One senior EU diplomat said Kyiv had scored an “own goal” by giving Hungary an excuse to block the loan.

“We cannot say if there is damage or not. There are very easy ways to document it and show they are working hard to repair it. They haven’t done it,” they said.

A senior Ukrainian official close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed back against suggestions that Kyiv was dragging its feet, saying technicians from Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz had given European counterparts evidence that Druzhba had been badly damaged.

🔗 https://www.ft.com/content/8f5f18fb-311d-4df0-805c-063b292506b3

🇮🇷🇴🇲 The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces denied responsibility for the drone attacks on the Omani port of Salalah, referring to Oman as a "friendly country" in the statement made to the press.

Yesterday, American journalist, Tucker Carlson, claimed that Israeli Mossad agents attacked targets in Saudi Arabia and Qatar in order to draw in more countries in the war against Iran.

🔗 https://news.1rj.ru/str/farsna/414817

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🎯🇨🇳 — 📰 ZeroHedge | The Iran Question Is All About China | March 1, 2026:

"Iran is most often discussed as a nonproliferation problem, a sponsor of terrorism, a regional spoiler. Each of these framings captures a real problem, but none captures what matters most. The nuclear file, the militia archipelago stretching from Lebanon to Yemen, the question of Gulf security architecture: these only acquire their full meaning when read against the backdrop of Chinese grand strategy.

Beijing has spent years and billions of dollars building Iran into a structural asset. Everything that follows in the Middle East flows from this fact. Which is why Operation Epic Fury is the first American military campaign that threatens to sever that asset. By striking Iran directly, the Trump administration is dismantling, whether by design or by consequence, a pillar of China’s regional architecture.

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China buys around 90% of Iran’s crude exports at steep discounts. The shipments travel on a ghost fleet of tankers that switch off their transponders and relabel their cargo as Malaysian or Indonesian crude to circumvent American sanctions. Since 2021, the cumulative value of these purchases has exceeded $140 billion. This makes China the main reason the Islamic Republic has not gone bankrupt."

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🎯🇨🇳 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Is The US Military Campaign Against Iran Part Of Trump's Grand Strategy Against China? | March 2, 2026:

"The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity.

Trump claimed that the US’ military campaign against Iran is to “defend the American people”, while many critics have alleged (whether in jest or not) that it’s to distract from the Epstein Files, but few observers realize that it’s actually all about China. It was explained here that Trump 2.0 “decided to gradually deprive China of access to markets and resources, ideally through a series of trade deals, in order to imbue the US with the indirect leverage required to peacefully derail China’s superpower rise.”

To elaborate, “The US’ trade deals with the EU and India could ultimately result in them curtailing China’s access to their markets under pain of punitive tariffs if they refuse. In parallel, the US’ special operation in Venezuela, pressure on Iran, and simultaneous attempts to subordinate Nigeria and other leading energy producers could curtail China’s access to the resources required for fueling its superpower rise.”

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🇪🇺⛽️📈 — 📰 ZeroHedge on 𝕏:

"Here we go again: Europe among most exposed to Hormuz, with Goldman warning of massive 130% upside risk for European (TTF) gas prices, potentially hitting 74 EUR/MWh, if LNG flows are blocked"

🔗 zerohedge (@zerohedge):

Goldman's Commodity Desk Lays Out The Oil Price Scenarios From Iran War https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldmans-commodity-desk-lays-out-oil-price-scenarios-iran-war

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🇺🇸🤝☀️🇮🇷❌🇮🇷 — US President D.J. Trump is open to supporting armed anti-regime groups in Iran, including Kurdish factions, though no final decision has been made regarding weapons or intelligence support, reports The Wall Street Journal

🇦🇪🧳🏨🆓UAE: Dubai and Abu Dhabi hotels, developers offer free stays to stranded passengers

Expatriates, developers and hotels offer free stays amid airspace disruptions

Regional airspace disruptions have left thousands of travellers stranded across the Gulf, searching for accommodation while awaiting confirmation on when flights will resume. As of March 2, a limited number of services have gradually resumed.

In the meantime, communities across the UAE have stepped forward, with expatriates and property businesses opening their doors to offer free stays, meals and transport to those unable to continue their journeys.

https://gulfnews.com/uae/uae-flight-disruptions-inside-the-massive-community-effort-to-provide-free-stays-for-stranded-tourists-1.500462135

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🇦🇪UAE says strategic food stock sufficient for 4 to 6 months

Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy and Tourism, announced that the UAE’s strategic stockpile of essential commodities is sufficient to meet market needs for a period ranging between four and six months, thereby ensuring the continued availability of basic goods and price stability even under emergency conditions.

https://gulfnews.com/business/retail/uae-says-strategic-food-stock-sufficient-for-4-to-6-months-1.500462161

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The end of the war is near? Trump tells POLITICO that Iran is "running out of missile launchers"

Destroying Iran's ability to launch missiles at Israel and American allies in the Middle East is one of the main goals of the war against Tehran.

The other main goal was the elimination of Iran's Ayatollah and senior IRGC and military commanders which was already carried out.

Although the pace of Iranian attacks towards Israel and the Gulf Countries remains unchanged, Trump's assessment seems out of place but not unusual considering the immense pressure the Gulf Monarchies are putting on him to cease fire and the declining reserve of interceptors and guided missiles.

🔗 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/trump-to-politico-iran-is-running-out-of-launchers-00808591

🇺🇸📞🇩🇪 — As USAF and IAF air campaign over Iran continues, POTUS Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office:

"We have a meeting with a man who's become a friend of mine... We'll obviously be talking a little bit about Iran... we're talking about some very big trade deals."

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