🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱 Trump tells Israeli media that he will not end the war on Iran without Israel's consent

He also boasts that “we’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel”

🔗 Max Blumenthal

🇮🇩 Indonesia is doubling down on its resource nationalism strategy.

After banning exports of nickel ore, bauxite, and copper concentrate, the country is now considering additional restrictions on raw material exports.

Indonesia is doubling down on its resource nationalism strategy.

After banning exports of nickel ore, bauxite, and copper concentrate, the country is now considering additional restrictions on raw material exports.

🔗 Lukas Ekwueme

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Are CENTCOM’s reported figures for destroyed targets accurate?

Let’s examine what the visually confirmed evidence really shows.

Air Defense Systems SAM
12 (10 destroyed + 2 damaged)
- Khordad-15: 2 destroyed
- Sevom Khordad: 2 destroyed
- 9A331 TLAR for 9K331 Tor-M1: 1 destroyed
- M192 Launcher for HAWK SAM: 1 destroyed
- Majid SAM: 1 destroyed
- Qaem-118: 1 destroyed
- Unknown AD-System: 2 destroyed
- 2P25 TEL for 2K12 Kub: 1 damaged
- Arman: 1 damaged

Radars
6 (5 destroyed + 1 damaged)

Missile Launchers (TELs)
28 (27 destroyed + 1 damaged)

Aircraft
16 (14 destroyed + 2 damaged)
- SU-22M4: 3 destroyed
- C-130: 2 destroyed
- Northrop F-5 Tiger II: 2 destroyed
- MiG-29: 2 destroyed
- Unknown Aircraft: 3 destroyed
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: 1 destroyed
- Yak-130: 1 destroyed
- MiG-29: 2 damaged

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
2 (2 destroyed + 0 damaged)

Warships
11 (9 destroyed + 2 damaged)

Ground Vehicles
35 (28 destroyed + 7 damaged)

Towed Artillery
1 (1 destroyed + 0 damaged)

Anti-Aircraft Guns
8 (8 destroyed + 0 damaged)

Additional losses confirmed on March 8 update (not yet added to main totals above):
- 1 Ballistic Missile System (destroyed)
- 1 Fakur Command Post (destroyed)
- 1 Unknown Command Post (destroyed)
- 1 Kamaz 6x6 truck (destroyed)
- 1 Unknown Truck (destroyed)

Do you want to know the truth? These numbers are tiny compared to the Iranian arsenal, as they have, in fact, hidden all of their weaponry.

CENTCOM exaggerated about the numbers.

🔗 Patricia Marins

🛢 The reason the price of crude oil went down after spiking to 116$/barrel was because G7 countries have begun releasing their oil reserves to lower the price.

The oil reserves are not infinite and while they may be able to control the price of oil, they can only do it as long as the oil reserves don't run out.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/09/g7-release-emergency-reserves-oil-price-us-middle-east-war

🇧🇩 Bangladesh shuts universities, limits fuel sale as Iran war causes shortage

Bangladesh relies on imports for 95 percent of its energy needs, which have been disrupted after the Iran war engulfed the Middle East.

Authorities shut all public and private universities across the country from Monday, bringing forward the Eid ⁠al-Fitr holidays as part ⁠of emergency measures to conserve electricity and fuel.

Officials said the move will not only ⁠reduce electricity consumption but also ease traffic congestion, which leads to fuel wastage.

They said the university campuses consume large amounts of electricity for residential halls, classrooms, laboratories and air conditioning, and the early closure would help ‌ease pressure on the country’s strained power system.

Government and private schools are already closed for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, meaning most educational institutions across the country will now remain shut during the period.

🔗 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/bangladesh-shuts-universities-limits-fuel-sale-as-iran-war-causes-shortage

🌾 45% of urea production goes through the Strait of Hormuz. We are about to see another massive shock to fertiliser markets.

🔗 Phillip Pilkington

🇺🇸🇸🇦 Multiple USAF tankers which had been supporting the USAF and IAF sorties from bases in Saudi Arabia have left for Europe.

They have been evacuated out of Prince Sultan Airbase.

The US can no longer protect this airbase given interceptor shortages.

@CIG_telegram

🇶🇦 QatarEnergy has delayed its major LNG expansion after a drone attack forced the shutdown of the Ras Laffan plant.

The North Field East project is now expected to begin exports in early 2027, assuming the facility reopens within about a month.

A longer outage—amid escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf—could push the timeline back further.

Source: Bloomberg

🔗 Clash Repost

🇹🇷🇮🇷🪖⚡️ — NEW: An Iranian ballistic missile was intercepted in Turkish airspace earlier today.

➡️ NATO air and missile defense systems in the eastern Mediterranean neutralized the missile after it entered Turkish airspace.

➡️ Debris fell near Gaziantep, causing no casualties.