🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — 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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🇫🇷☢️🇩🇪🇵🇱 France to increase nuclear arsenal and European weapons cooperation, Macron says

French president says Paris could deploy nuclear-capable fighter jets to countries such as Germany and Poland

France will increase the size of its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades and significantly intensify nuclear weapons cooperation with eight European allies including the UK as part of a “major” strengthening of its deterrence doctrine, Emmanuel Macron has said.

Amid growing concern among European leaders about wavering US commitments to help defend the continent, the French president said on Monday that Paris could deploy nuclear-capable Rafale fighter jets to partner countries such as Germany and Poland.

But there would be no sharing of decision-making on the use of the country’s nuclear weapons, he said, with the “ultimate decision” the responsibility of the French president and “the definition of [France’s] vital interests” also remaining “sovereign”.

Macron cited Russia’s war against Ukraine, which last month entered its fifth year, China’s expanding military power and recent changes in US defence strategy as reasons why Europe had to take more direct responsibility for its own security.

Under unspecified circumstances, French “strategic assets” could be deployed in other European countries, he said, referring to France’s nuclear-capable Rafale jets. Talks on enhanced cooperation had already started with the UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden and Denmark, he added.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/france-increase-nuclear-arsenal-european-weapons-cooperation-macron-says

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Satellite images show a continued pattern of strikes targeting IRGC ballistic missile launchers, while most buildings and tunnel entrances remain intact.

— Imam Ali: Likely strikes near tunnel areas (low-res image).

— South Isfahan: Road crater suggests a strike on a moving launcher; burn marks at a launcher site.

— North Isfahan (Mar 1–2): One launcher destroyed and a missile inspection building damaged; second burn mark seen the next day. No confirmed hits on tunnel entrances.

— Garmdareh (near Tehran): Burn marks from damaged/destroyed vehicles; tunnels likely untouched.

— Khorgu: Two suspected missile inspection buildings and other admin/technical structures destroyed; no visible damage to tunnels or silo-like structures.

— South Shiraz: Four launchers destroyed; visible fuel burn trace.

— West Shiraz: Missile inspection building destroyed; no other visible damage.

— Panj Pelleh (Kermanshah): Four launchers hit around Feb 28–Mar 1.

— Hajiabad: Three launchers destroyed near tunnel entrances.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: The Trump administration is considering providing military protection for oil and gas tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz to ease energy prices that have climbed after Iran warned it could target ships in the waterway, according to POLITICO.

➡️ The Trump administration is also considering having the U.S. government backstop insurance for tankers, as marine insurers raise premiums or withdraw coverage, even though the strait remains open.

➡️ The Pentagon is discussing a maritime mission similar to past Red Sea operations, where U.S. carriers and destroyers were deployed to protect freedom of navigation amid threats from Iran-linked forces.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇹🌹 — Tensions in Milan as Italian leftists protesting against the US-Israeli Airstrikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran face off Iranian diaspora counter-protesters supporting the strikes outside the US Consulate of Milan

On video, a Iranian man holding a Lion and Sun flag accuses the Italian leftists of supporting child killers and being blind towards the mass killing that took place in January

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — WATCH: CENTCOM released footage of U.S. strikes on Iranian Shahed drones ready to be launched.

The Iranian regime's killer drones have been a menace in the Middle East for years.

These drones are no longer a tolerable risk.

🇫🇷📞🇺🇸🇮🇷 — French Emmanuel Macron wants “an end to the strikes as quickly as possible”

@BellumActaNews

🇫🇷🤝🇦🇪 — French President Macron announces that French Armed Forces will start Defensive measures to protect Arab partners from Iran:

We must stand beside our friends in the region.

Defensive and protective actions will be taken.

This is what makes France a credible partner.

🇫🇷🤝🇶🇦🇰🇼🇦🇪 — French President Macron says that France is now protecting Arab countries from Iran:

We have defense agreements with Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE.

We must stand with them.

🇫🇷🤝🇨🇾 — French President Macron announces protective measures to defend Cyprus from Iranian Aggression:

I have decided to send a warship to Cyprus for defense.

🇫🇷📞🇮🇱🇱🇧 — French President Emmanuel Macron says Israel should not invade Lebanon:

"It would be a dangerous escalation and a strategic mistake,"