🇺🇸❌🇮🇱 - Joe Kent drops a bombshell, revealing that the Israeli lobby in DC manipulated intelligence to push the Trump administration to treat Iran as an imminent threat when it wasn’t.

He names people like Mark Levin as playing a major role in repeating propaganda talking points to the public.

He says this manipulation of intelligence destroyed the negotiations President Trump had planned with Iran.

🔗 Shadow of Ezra

JUST IN - Joe Kent, under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information.

@disclosetv

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt accuses Joe Kent of anti-Semitism: "You can say I oppose this war on some grounds—but to blame Jews and the Jewish state for the war?!"

🇮🇷 “..disavowing this illegal war is the bare minimum any American citizen or official of clear conscience can and should do.” — Iran’s FM spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei.

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - There are way less US tankers active this evening than during the previous days of war, unknown reason.

🔗 MenchOsint

📝 Armchair Warlord -

Consistent ballistic missile attacks on airfields in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have probably forced the USAF even further afield. Eventually even tankers need to be refueled by other tankers to be able to throw the strike aircraft far enough.

📝🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 - If the Iranians have already begun to mine the strait south of Larak Island and are now forcing traffic through the even smaller ~5mi strait between Larak and Qeshm Island, I don't see how that's not checkmate.

It's impossible to imagine a scenario where they can't maintain fire control over such a narrow passage with drones. They can do this with little cost. Traffic can still flow through the smaller strait. They can impose a toll if they choose to. Hitting ships that attempt to run the blockade becomes trivial.

🔗 Amerikanets

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼🇺🇸 - Attacks on Kuwait 🇰🇼 surged today by 80% (27) from yesterday’s (15) or 139% from the 15–17 Mar average (11)

The highest single-day volume since 6 Mar

IRGC-linked strikes showed a relative rebound on 17–18 Mar, an escalation trend is shaping up

🔗 Ibrahim Jalal

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The U.S. produces missile interceptors at 6-7% the rate that Iran, a much smaller and weaker nation, produces ballistic missiles.

We spent trillions bringing liberal democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and luxury communism to US seniors, instead of acting like a serious nation.

🔗 Russ Greene

BREAKING: Trump says he knew “nothing” about Israel’s attack on Iran’s gas field:

Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section has been hit.

The United States knew nothing about this attack, and Qatar was in no way involved or aware.

Unfortunately, Iran did not know this and unjustifiably attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility.

NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to South Pars unless Iran unwisely decides to attack Qatar — in which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen before.

I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.

CNBC's Sorkin: "Tucker Carlson would say that his position is not about anti-Semitism at all."

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: "That is what anti-Semites always say."

🇺🇸🗳️ - Will Tucker Carlson run for President in 2028?

Not only is he perfectly positioned with a vast media operation and network of pundit supporters, but now a principled martyrdom allowing his detachment from Donald Trump. Neither JD Vance nor Marco Rubio could dream of the base of support nor maneuverability the man holds.

All appears clear for his ascendency if it were not for the cracks beneath his surface level beliefs and personality. For every great machination has an Achilles, and his is his authenticity. If Carlson fails to fully embrace the White Nationalism he so obviously relies on, his confused political coalition will rupture.

🔗 Realm Spaced

BIG: The Pentagon wants more than $200 billion from Congress to fund the Iran war, a huge increase over current costs.

Early costs are already high, exceeding $11 billion in the first week alone.

The money would mainly go to replacing weapons and boosting production after heavy use in strikes.

Even inside the administration, there’s doubt: “does not think the Pentagon’s request has a realistic shot of being approved in Congress.”

Expect a major political fight. Public support is weak and lawmakers are divided.

Source: WaPo

🚨🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 - Iran Now | Exclusive | A diplomatic source in the Iranian Foreign Ministry to Iran Now Network:

- For the third time today, Washington sent a message, via one of the region's countries, in which it requested a halt to the war

- This time, the American request was accompanied by a threat to increase the pace of assassinations inside Iran in the event of non-compliance by Tehran

- Iran has affirmed that its position has not changed, so there will be no halt to the war before achieving Tehran's declared objectives as stated by its officials.

🔗 Iran Now

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 - Chinese military analyst: "This [war] demonstrates a clear hierarchy, Israel sits at the very top".

China’s military has been studying Trump’s war on Iran for lessons that could prove helpful in any future conflict of its own.

🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Contrary to Trump's statements, senior Israeli and U.S. officials said that the United States had prior knowledge of the Israeli strike and even approved it in an attempt to pressure Iran.

— Axios reporter

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 - 3-day moving average of launches is moving back up as Iran ramps up its regional attacks in retaliation for South Pars gas field strike

🔗 Dmitri Alperovitch

📝 TNG5 - This much seems clear: Iran is probably not going to run out of launchers.

Based on publicly available stockpiles estimates assuming zero new production Iran can probably keep up a rate of missile launches about this high for months, and drone launches for years.