🇩🇿🇮🇷 — The war in Iran could confirm Algeria’s role as a key alternative supplier of hydrocarbons to Europe (Bloomberg)

🇮🇷 — The G7 urges an “immediate and unconditional” cessation of all attacks by Iran.

🇮🇷🇸🇦 — Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry says that Iran’s military attachés have been told to leave the country.

🇺🇸🇪🇭 — Three Republican senators filed a bill to designate the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization (RFI)

🇮🇱 — Israel’s prime minister vows to keep “striking enemies on all fronts” after a “very difficult evening” in Dimona.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israel’s defense minister says that all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River will be destroyed.

🇶🇦🇹🇷 — Turkey’s defense ministry confirms that a Turkish major died when a Qatari military helicopter crashed.

🇰🇬🇷🇺 — Russia’s embassy in Bishkek calls on Kyrgyzstan to tone down its rhetoric on the status of the Russian language.

🇮🇷 — Iran’s central bank says that it has launched a 10-million-rial banknote (about $7) to “ensure public access to cash.”

🇹🇼🇺🇸 — Taiwan’s defense ministry says that the US will deliver delayed F-16V fighter jets later this year.

🇮🇷🇹🇷 — The war in Iran is driving Turkey and the Gulf states closer on defense, but an alliance remains unlikely (Al-Monitor)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Lebanon’s president says that Israel’s strikes on bridges over the Litani River are a prelude to an invasion.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The IRGC threatens to “completely close” the Strait of Hormuz if the US targets Iran’s energy infrastructure.

🇸🇾 — Syria’s president hosted a Kurdish delegation in Damascus to mark the spring festival of Nowruz (SANA)

🇨🇺🇺🇸 — Cuba’s deputy foreign minister says that the country is preparing for a possible “military aggression” by the US.

🇪🇺🇮🇷 — An EU official says that the bloc’s foreign policy chief held a phone call with Iran’s foreign minister (Reuters)

🇮🇷🇹🇷🇺🇸 — A Turkish diplomat says that his country asked the US not to support a Kurdish offensive in western Iran (NYT)

🇸🇦 — Saudi Arabia‘s defense ministry says that it has intercepted four drones and a ballistic missile.

🇨🇳🇪🇸 — Spain’s government confirms that its prime minister will visit China in April.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — US officials say that the Strait of Hormuz is dotted with about a dozen Iranian mines (CBS News)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israel’s military says that it captured two members of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.