🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 – WAR IN IRAN | MARCH 6TH, DAY 7 RECAP

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️ – U.S. forces on Apache helicopters engaged in clashes with PMF Iraqi militants in southern Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️ – U.S. Victoria Base was directly struck by drones.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️ – U.S. logistics company KBR was directly struck by drones in Basra, Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️ – Patriot system stationed in the UAE was struck by an Iranian missile.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️ – The Arjaan by Rotana hotel was struck by drones in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ – Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier has crossed the Suez and entered the Red Sea.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ – U.S. and Israeli airstrikes targeted Saqqez in northwest Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ – Large-scale airstrikes continued in Tehran by U.S. and Israel.

🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡️ – The Iraqi National Security Service arrested a spy cell consisting of five Israeli individuals holding Polish passports.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ – The U.S. is considering unsanctioning some Russian oil as part of economic relief due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇯🇴⚡️ – The U.S. is rushing to replace the THAAD radar system that was destroyed by Iranian drones in Jordan, according to the Wall Street Journal.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ – Ali Asghar Hijazi, Deputy Chief of Staff and a senior Iranian cleric, was assassinated in Israeli attacks on Tehran earlier today, per Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ – President Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran, according to an NBC News exclusive.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ – The IDF attempted a massive operation in eastern Lebanon’s Bekka Valley; Hezbollah Al-Radwan forces thwarted the attack, and the IDF was forced to withdraw (casualty count unknown).

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ – Hezbollah and IDF forces clashed in Khiam, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ – The U.S. Department of State approved a $151.8 million deal to sell 12,000 BLU-110 1,000-pound bombs to Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇷🇺⚡️ – Russia is providing Iran with intelligence on where to strike U.S. military assets in the region, a U.S. official tells the Washington Post.

🇺🇸⚡️ – Reports indicate that the U.S. has had at least 3 out of the 8 THAAD systems damaged or destroyed by Iranian attacks.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ – Five IDF soldiers from the Givati Brigade were seriously injured today (Friday) as a result of gunfire in Israeli territory near the Lebanon border.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's son was injured during military activity on the Lebanon border, according to Israeli Channel 12.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡️ – Iranian forces have been put on a state of alert in Ardabil, northern Iran, along Azerbaijan's border.

🇮🇷⚡️ – Iran targeted a tugboat in the Strait of Hormuz, reducing shipping by 90%.

🛢⚡️ – The price of Brent crude oil has surpassed $90 per barrel.

Here is our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2029767639803838503?s=20

🇮🇷🇦🇪 - Footage from an Iranian drone attack on the UAE’s international airport.

🇦🇪⚡- Emirates Airlines suspend all flights to and from Dubai International Airport until further notice.

🇮🇷 IRAN’S JOKER TO SHUT DOWN THE MIDDLE EAST:

What could be a truly painful response from Iran to US and Israeli attacks?

Millions of people in the Persian Gulf monarchies live in the desert only because dozens of large seawater desalination plants operate along the coast. These plants are large, static targets that cannot be hidden or relocated—and they lie within range of cheap Iranian drones. Which constantly reach their targets.

Estimates show Qatar gets nearly 100% of its drinking water from desalination, Bahrain and Kuwait about 90%, Saudi Arabia about 70%, and the UAE 42%. These five countries are home to roughly 58–60 million people, most living in major cities—Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait City, Manama—where water is pumped hundreds of kilometres inland from a handful of coastal complexes.

In Israel, 80–90% of municipal drinking water also comes from five coastal desalination plants on the Mediterranean, likewise within range of Iranian drones and missiles.

Experts already warn that damage to even one major facility could rapidly create an emergency.

If Iran struck several targets simultaneously?

Authorities would have not weeks, but mere days to prevent collapse in the Gulf states—deploy emergency logistics, organise water distribution, and guard supplies against looting. Yet there would be almost nowhere to source replacement water: neighbouring countries are also desert. Without water, hospitals, airports, data centres and military bases would shut down. Within days mass exodus from coastal cities would begin, diseases would spread, and violent conflict over functioning wells and reservoirs would erupt. A classic humanitarian catastrophe: millions of residents in the world’s richest oil region reduced to refugee-camp conditions.

For the US this would be a severe blow, as the monarchies would pressure Washington: either quickly de-escalate and protect our infrastructure or we restrict your regional presence.

For Trump, the risk of a “small victorious war” turning into a prolonged conflict with Iran and the loss of wealthy allies would become starkly real.

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⚠️ Update: A full week has now passed since #Iran fell into digital darkness under a regime-imposed national internet blackout.

The measure remains in place at hour 168, leaving the public isolated without vital updates and alerts while officials and state media retain access.