🇮🇷🇴🇲 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.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🎯🇨🇳 — 📰 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"

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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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🇺🇸🇩🇪❌🇮🇷 — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office says that Germany supports the American-Israeli Airstrikes against the Islamic Republic in Iran:

"We are on the same page in terms of getting this terrible regime in Tehran away."

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🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Reporter asks US President Donald Trump if Israel or the Israeli lobby in United States "forced him" to attack Iran:

"Did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?"

🇺🇸 POTUS Donald Trump:

"No... Based on the way the negotiation was going, I think [Iran] was going to attack first, and I didn't want that to happen — so if anything, I might've forced Israel's hand."

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🇺🇸❌🇪🇸 — United States President Donald Trump condemns the Socialist Government in Spain, announcing that all trade deals with Spain are now cancelled over the behavior of Spanish Prime-Minister Pedro Sanchez:

"Some of the European nations have been helpful, and some haven't—and I'm very surprised. Germany's been great...

Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain

By the way, I'm not happy with the U.K. either."

🇪🇸📝 Pedro Sanchez, once the attacks began on Iran, decided to condemn the United States and Israel and implicitly side with the Islamic Republic of Iran under the excuse of International Law

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🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar are very close to joining strikes against Iran, even if it's only in a limited or symbolic capacity, according to Israeli Ynet, citing Western officials.

🇺🇸❗️🇻🇪 — END OF LOVE: According to Reuters sources, the US Department of Justice is preparing a criminal indictment against Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodríguez for corruption and money laundering.

🇮🇷🇮🇷📉 — Polymarket betting market now points out that it's most likely Iran's Supreme Leader position will be abolished than any given person taking the role.

🇺🇸❌🇬🇧🌹 — US President Trump condemns British Prime-Minister Starmer's Chagos deal again, says Sir Keir Starmer is not Churchill:

"For whatever reason he made a lease... it's taking days for us to work out where we can land... we are very surprised, this is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with"

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Iran's Missile Math: $20,000 Drones Take on $4 Million Patriots

Just three days into the conflict, the Iran war has become attritional. Waves of drone attacks by the Islamic Republic are putting pressure on the defenses of the US and its partners from Bahrain to the United Arab Emirates, depleting weapons stockpiles. The outcome of the fight may depend on which side runs out of munitions first.

US-made Patriot air-defense missiles have been largely successful in stopping the Iranian Shaheds and other ballistic missiles, with interception rates over 90%, according to the UAE. But using $4 million missiles to destroy $20,000 drones illustrates a problem that has haunted Western military planners since early in the Ukraine war: The cheap weapons can chew up resources meant for much more complex threats.

The result is that both Iran and the US may run low on weapons in a matter of days or weeks. Whoever can last longer will gain a serious advantage.

Iran’s regional proxies were severely weakened by the war in Gaza and its missile capabilities damaged by the earlier Israel-US attacks in a 12-day war in June. Since then the emphasis for Iran has been to escalate its warnings about the consequences and costs of a Trump strike, knowing that his supporters are broadly opposed to drawn-out, messy wars. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — who died in Saturday’s air strikes — warned that a US attack would lead to wider conflagration embroiling the whole region.

Qatar’s stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles will last four days at the current rate of use, according to an internal analysis seen by Bloomberg News. Doha has been privately urging a swift end to the conflict.

Iran was estimated to have about 2,000 ballistic missiles after last year’s conflict with Israel. It’s likely to have a much larger number of Shaheds, which Russia, the other main manufacturer, has been able to produce at a rate of several hundred per day.

Tehran has fired more than 1,200 projectiles since the start of this year’s conflict, with many — perhaps most — of them being Shaheds. That suggests they could be saving more damaging ballistic missiles for sustained attacks.

On the US side, Wasser added, strike planners are unlikely to have moved enough munitions to the region to continue for four weeks, as President Donald Trump has estimated they would.

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🇵🇱☢️ Poland will seek to build nuclear weapons says PM Donald Tusk

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signaled his country will eventually try to obtain its own nuclear weapons as Europe strengthens deterrence amid doubts over US commitment to defending the continent.

“Poland takes nuclear security very seriously,” the prime minister said ahead of a weekly government meeting on Tuesday. “As our autonomous capabilities grow, we will strive to prepare Poland for the most autonomous actions possible in this matter in the future.”

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