🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | MARCH 8th, DAY 9 RECAP:

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦 - CENTCOM announced the death of another American soldier, who was badly wounded in an attack in Saudi Arabia on March 1st, bringing the American death toll to eight.

🇮🇷 - The son of Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, is officially the new Supreme Leader of Iran. He is supposedly a hardliner, has loyalty from the IRGC, and is alleged to be the de facto leader of the Basij paramilitary organization.

🛢 - Crude oil futures are now up to $116 per barrel, up an unprecedented 28% in a single day.

🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 - Asian stock markets plummeted as a result of oil shortages from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

-South Korea: -8%
-Japan: -7%
-Taiwan: -5.5%

🇶🇦 - ‎Qatar’s Economic and Cybercrimes Department stated that they “arrested 313 individuals of various nationalities, in connection with their filming, dissemination, and publication of misleading information.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇭 - The U.S. struck an Iranian desalination plant on the island of Qeshm. In response, the Iranians drone-struck a Bahraini desalination plant.

🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Iran struck a residential sanitation building and killed two of the workers inside in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. Notably, both of the fatalities were foreign workers from India and Bangladesh.

🇦🇪🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israel claims the Emirates attacked Iranian assets for the first time in an offensive manner. (UAE denies this)

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israel once more deployed helicopters and infantry units in eastern Lebanon in a search for the remains of missing IAF pilot Ron Arad, who disappeared in 1986. Hezbollah claims to have struck an Israeli helicopter during the operation. Al Mayadeen and Al Manar also reported it.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Lebanon has officially announced that over half a million Lebanese citizens were displaced as of this morning.

🇺🇸🇧🇭🇮🇷 - Patriot interceptor misfires and lands in residential area in Manama, Bahrain, Iran strikes targets in Bahrain.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - Drones target US Victoria Base in Baghdad, Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼 - Drones target Ali Al Salem Airbase in Kuwait.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴 - Iran launches missiles at Muwafaq Salti Airbase in Jordan.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched three different missile attacks on Israel after the announcement of the new supreme leader. Cluster munitions land in central Israel and power goes out for many in suburbs of Tel Aviv.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Two more IDF soldiers die after clashes with Hezbollah last night.

Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2030529149878800526?s=20

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- A drone strike has targeted the U.S. base near Erbil Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Reuters.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Sirens in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Manama, Bahrain.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Visual confirmation of an impact near BAPCO refinery in Manama, Bahrain.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- About an hour ago, an Iranian drone directly struck the BAPCO oil refinery in Bahrain, causing a large fire.

🇺🇸⚡️- "On March 8, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed." - U.S. Southern Command.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missiles launches detected from Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens activated in northern Israel.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- A single missile was launched towards northern Israel and has been intercepted.

🇧🇭 — Bapco Energies, Bahrain’s state oil company, declares force majeure on its shipments after Iran attacked the nation’s only oil refinery.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Urgent Warning to Residents of Lebanon: In the coming hours, the Israel Defense Forces will operate forcefully against the terrorist infrastructure of Al-Qard al-Hassan Association [A financial institution affiliated with Hezbollah], which constitutes a central element in financing Hezbollah's terrorist activities and harms the Lebanese economy in service of Iranian interests.

Residents of the southern suburbs, the terrorist Hezbollah has dragged you into a war for the benefit of the weak Iranian regime and makes you pay the price.

And to avoid harming you, I call on you to respond to our evacuation calls and follow the warnings we issue. For these warnings aim to save your lives." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇴⚡- "On March 8, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.

Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.

Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed," - SOUTHCOM.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇯🇴⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky says his country has sent drone specialists along with drone interceptors to Jordan, to defend US bases from Iranian one-way drones.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇷⚡- "Syrian Kurds warn Iranian Kurds against allying with the United States, citing their own experience when Washington 'abandoned' them after years of cooperation," - Reuters.

🇧🇪⚡- BREAKING: Explosion at the entrance to a synagogue in Liege, Belgium. No injuries reported.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - US/Israeli airstrikes earlier today against Sepahan Shahr, Isfahan Province, central Iran.