🇮🇷🚫🚢 Iran has begun laying naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with U.S. intelligence who spoke to CNN.

Only a few dozen having been laid in recent days, the sources said, but Iran has the capability to deploy hundreds if not thousands more, retaining upward of 80% to 90% of its small boats and mine layers operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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🇺🇸 The U.S. has just 4 minesweepers

Commercial crews took a picture on March 9th 2026, showing the U.S' 4 minesweepers, USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry, being transported to Delaware Bay in Philadelphia were they are going to be decommissioned and scrapped.

If the IRGC did truly mine the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy has ZERO capacity to demine it and reopen it to trade.

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🇺🇸🛢 White House on Iran:

The recent increase in oil and gas prices is temporary, and this operation will result in lower gas prices in the long term.

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🇺🇸Operation "Epic fury" was renamed to "Epstein's Rage"

According to a report by the American Anti-Defamation League, cited by the media, the phrase "Epstein's Rage" was mentioned over 90,000 times in X just during the first 3 days of the conflict.

Jewish human rights activists qualify the facts of the renaming as manifestations of blatant anti-Semitism, as the late pedophile was a Jew.

🇮🇷🚫🚢 Strait of Hormuz Under Siege

UKMTO has reported a new incident this morning involving a container ship off the northern coast of the UAE after it was struck by an unidentified projectile.

The vessel has sustained significant damage and is now ablaze while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iranian missile and drone launches have decreased significantly since the beginning of Operation True Promise IV yet they are scoring more and consistent hits showing how degraded the AD capabilities of Israel and the Gulf Countries are after 11 days of fighting.

Yesterday, despite only 45 missiles and 45 drone launches, Iran scored multiple hits in Israel’s Tel Aviv, Beit Shemesh and Haifa, in the UAE’s Al Ruwais refinery and Al Dhafra airbase, Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti airbase, Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem airbase, Bahrain’s Camp Jufair and Qatar’s Al Udeid airbase.

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⚰️ Casualties in US–Israeli and Iranian attacks (as of Mar 11, 2026):

🇮🇷 Iran: 1,255 killed, 12,000 injured
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 570 killed, 1,444 injured
🇮🇱 Israel: 13 killed, ~2,000 injured
🇮🇶 Iraq: 15 killed, dozens injured
🇯🇴 Jordan: 14 injured
🇰🇼 Kuwait: 6 killed, dozens injured
🇧🇭 Bahrain: 2 killed, dozens injured
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2 killed, 12 injured
🇦🇪 UAE: 6 killed, 122 injured
🇶🇦 Qatar: 16 injured
🇴🇲 Oman: 1 killed, 5 injured
🇺🇸 US military: 8 killed, 140–150 injured

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🇺🇸🚫🚢 The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar with the matter.

📝Amerikanets: Whatever people say, there are two key signals from the US strategy in this war that indicate how seriously we take Iran as a threat:

• The preemptive evacuation of bases and hesitance to fully restaff them
• The refusal to run escorts through the Strait

Whatever bluster people produce, however many drone launchers or ships they claim are destroyed, these two basic realities expose the real balance of power in the conflict. A meaningful shift in that balance would see one or both of these situations changing. There's no indication such a shift is underway or likely to happen anytime soon.

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🇺🇸🇰🇷 South Korean medias now say that the U.S. relocated ALL THAAD batteries in the country to CENTCOM.

Korean journalists took a picture of American troops dismantling a THAAD system and preparing it for relocation.

Last weekend, dozens of cargo flights, including the massive Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, took off from ROK airports heading for the Middle East.

MIM-104 Patriot systems are expected to be removed as well from the country.

📝Christopher Hooks: Pete Hegseth told me the IRGC keeps destroying his THAADs so I asked how many THAADs he has and he said he just goes to a different theater and gets a new THAAD afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding THAADs to the IRGC and then the joint chiefs started crying

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🇷🇴🤝🇺🇸 Romania has approved the deployment of additional American troops and equipment to the country.

Romanian president, Nicușor Dan, didn’t go too much into detail about the force that is going to be deployed but he did mention that several air tankers will be deployed among other things.

Flightradar24 data showed an exodus of KC-135R Stratotankers from the Middle East a few days ago, showing that the U.S. is indeed pulling back some assets away from Iranian missiles and drones.

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🇪🇸❌🇮🇱 Spain recalled its ambassador from Israel and downgraded diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv to the chargé d’affaires level.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — A Western intelligence official told CNN that Russia is now providing Iran with more detailed support on drone warfare, sharing tactics developed during its war in Ukraine to help target U.S. and Gulf state assets in the Middle East.

➡️ The assistance includes operational strategies for Shahed drones, originally designed by Iran but mass-produced by Russia, which have proven effective at penetrating Gulf air defenses.

➡️ While Moscow had previously offered more general intelligence support, officials say the cooperation now includes specific guidance on drone targeting and attack methods, such as launching drones in coordinated waves and altering flight paths to evade air defenses.