🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation shows that an Israeli Merkava tank was targeted during clashes between Hezbollah and the IDF in Khiam, southern Lebanon.

Clashes are ongoing.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Bahrain.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | MARCH 9th, DAY 10 RECAP:

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

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️ - Iran struck the BAPCO oil refinery in Bahrain; BAPCO declared force majeure (state of emergency) after it was hit.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇯🇴⚡️ - Ukrainian President Zelensky says his country has sent drone specialists along with drone interceptors to Jordan to defend U.S. 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.

🇧🇪⚡️ - A synagogue in Liège, Belgium, was subject to an explosion at the entrance of the building; no casualties.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - U.S. and Israel targeted central Iran multiple times within a few hours.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ - Multiple Iranian ballistic missile attacks, including cluster munitions, hit Israel; at least 2 confirmed deaths and multiple injuries.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - The U.S. Navy struck three Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf: two anchored off the coast of Bandar Lengeh, and the other at Bandar Kong.

🇸🇦⚡️ - Saudi Aramco has begun reducing crude output at two oilfields, Reuters reports.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡️ - The U.S. began evacuating its staff from the U.S. Consulate in Adana, southern Turkey.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ - Visual confirmation shows the IRGC successfully destroyed Israel’s SES satellite station in Beit Shemesh.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ - The IDF announced the death of one of its servicemen in southern Lebanon, a Staff Sergeant.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ - Hezbollah and the IDF clashed in Khiam, southern Lebanon; Hezbollah targeted and impacted at least two Israeli Merkava tanks.

🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡️ - “France is deploying about a dozen naval vessels, including its aircraft carrier strike group, to the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and potentially the Strait of Hormuz as part of defensive support to allies threatened by the conflict in the Middle East.” - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - “The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as 'an operational trigger' for 'sleeper assets' outside the country,” - ABC News.

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ - A UAE military helicopter crashed while "on duty," presumably attempting to intercept Iranian projectiles; two crewmembers were killed.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - The U.S. has now lost 11 MQ-9 drones in Iran, CBS reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - "They made a big mistake. I don’t know if he's going to last," - President Trump on Mojtaba Khamenei becoming the new Supreme Leader.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ - "Any Arab or European nation that expels the ambassadors of Israel and the United States from its territory will, starting tomorrow, have full authority and freedom to pass through the Strait of Hormuz." - IRGC

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - "As we leave here, I could call it, or we could go further, and we're gonna go further." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - President Trump says Iran has Tomahawk missiles and probably used them to bomb the Iranian girls’ school. (Iran has never owned Tomahawk cruise missiles.)

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - "We will determine the end of the war, not the American forces." - IRGC.

🇮🇶⚡️ - Drones impacted PJAK headquarters in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️ - Iranian drone strikes a high-rise building in Manama, Bahrain; the IRGC says 13 Americans were injured, and the Bahraini Interior Ministry confirms one death.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️ - The President spoke with Russia's Putin over the phone to discuss the special military operation in Iran.

🛢⚡️ - Capital Economics, a research company cited in a WSJ article, estimates that Brent oil could reach $150 per barrel by mid-2026 in "the worst-case scenario."

🇭🇺🛢⚡️ - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary will limit fuel prices starting tomorrow due to the ongoing oil crisis.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🛢⚡️ - Oil futures plummet over 25% from their recent high, to $86/barrel. (It is noteworthy that oil futures are likely to skyrocket, since the war is continuing despite rhetoric.)

Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2030844857237815316?s=20

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Some of President Trump's advisers have urged him privately to look for an exit plan from the Iran war amid spiking oil prices and concerns that a lengthy conflict could spark political backlash, according to the Wall Street Journal.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Bahrain.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Alerts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Negotiations with the United States are no longer on the agenda." - Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches detected from Iran, towards Israel.

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

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- 1-2 missiles were launched, and they were intercepted.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches detection from Iran, towards Israel.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇮🇷⚡- The US has moved Patriot and THAAD air defense systems from South Korea to the Middle East, Yonhap reports. South Korea's President was reportedly upset over the decision, and voiced his opposition to the "US withdrawal of some air defense weapons, but we [South Korea] cannot fully enforce our opinion."

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The IDF has begun a wave of attacks against targets of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran" - Israeli Defence Force.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We are certainly not seeking a ceasefire, we believe the aggressor must be struck in the mouth so that it learns a lesson and never again even thinks about attacking our beloved Iran," - Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran's Majlis.

🇮🇷🇦🇪🇴🇲⚡- UKMTO reports an incident in which a Captain of a bulk carrier heard a loud explosion in the water near the vessel. The incident occurred north of Abu Dhabi, the UAE.

🇶🇦🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡- Air defenses are active over Qatar and the UAE.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Mehrshahr Street, Karaj, northern Iran.