Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee:

Do American soldiers really want to die for Israel?

We’re waiting.

CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper:

We have struck more than 10,000 military targets.

We’ve destroyed 92% of Iran’s largest naval vessels. They have lost the ability to meaningfully project naval power.

U.S. forces maintain air superiority over Iran’s skies.

We’ve removed the regime’s ability to rebuild.

We’ve destroyed over two-thirds of Iran’s military production facilities. We are on a path to completely eliminate Iran’s military manufacturing apparatus.

📸 Major fire at Russia’s Ust-Luga port after Ukrainian strikes.

Netanyahu urged Trump last week to call on Iranians to protest their government. Trump rejected the idea as too dangerous.

“Why the hell should we tell people to take to the streets when they'll just get mowed down,” Trump told Netanyahu, according to a U.S. official.

Source: Axios

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Iran has told mediators that Lebanon must be included in any ceasefire with the U.S. and Israel.

Source: Reuters

Bandar Abbas coast at midnight, March 26.

The lights visible offshore are reportedly not from the city, but from ships waiting near the Strait of Hormuz after being unable to obtain clearance to transit the waterway.

INTERESTING: A surveillance drone, reportedly flown by infiltrator elements and disguised as a natural bird — such as an eagle — has been spotted in Iran.

Western intelligence says Russia is close to completing phased deliveries of drones, medicine, and food to Iran, following secret talks after US and Israeli strikes on Tehran.

This would be Moscow’s first known lethal support to Iran since the war began.

Source: FT

Sara Netanyahu:

My children have suffered shaming and violence simply because they are the children of the Prime Minister.

WSJ reporter Alex Ward:

At least 3 congressional Republicans—including chairs of House and Senate Armed Services—are strongly hinting that a ground operation in Iran is planned and could potentially be underway soon.

📸 Hellenic Army Leopard 2A6HEL, 2A4, and 1A5 tanks fitted with cope cages in Athens.

Trump has told aides he wants to avoid a prolonged war in Iran.

Nearly a month in, he believes the war is in its final stages and hopes it will be wrapped up before a mid-May summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Source: WSJ

Iran's Tasnim posted this.

Trump on Iran:

I thought that the oil prices would go up higher. I thought the stock market would go somewhat lower, but it didn't matter to me.

Trump on Iran:

I won't use the word war because they say if you use the word war, that's maybe not a good thing to do.

They don't like the word war because you are supposed to get approval. So I will use the word military operation.

Trump on Iran:

There has never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran.

"I don’t want it" we listen to some of the things they say we hear them very clearly they say "no thank you I don’t want it."

Trump:

We settled eight wars. People sort of forget.

A Turkish tanker, M/T Altura, carrying about 1 million barrels of Urals crude, was hit by a drone attack 15 nautical miles from the Bosporus Strait in the Black Sea.

An explosion hit the bridge, and the engine room took on water, but no casualties were reported.

Kuwait says it has uncovered a Hezbollah plot to assassinate state leaders.

The Interior Ministry reported that six suspects, five of them Kuwaiti, confessed to espionage and terrorist activities, including assassination training.