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๐Ÿ’ฅ Iranian drone strikes US air base in Kuwait - reports

An Iranian drone struck the US Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwai, local media reported.

The NASA FIRMS satellite fire-tracking system detected a significant thermal anomaly inside the base area following the reported strike.

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๐Ÿ“น Cuba's next โ€” Trump calls it โ€˜a question of timeโ€™

President Donald Trump suggested that the situation in Cuba could follow developments in Iran.

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œWe want to finish this one firstโ€ฆ but that will be just a question of time before youโ€ฆ are going to be going back to Cuba,โ€ Trump said.


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๐Ÿ“น Israel strikes the southern suburbs of Beirut

The IDF has launched airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, hitting several targets, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ“ก Iranian strikes hit key US missile-defense radar sites โ€” reports

Satellite imagery suggests Iranian attacks damaged US-made radar systems linked to THAAD missile defenses in the Middle East, according to CNN.

CNN reported that a THAAD radar site at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan appears to have been struck and likely destroyed, while buildings housing similar radar systems in the UAE were also hit.

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThe AN/TPY-2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery,โ€ munitions expert N.R. Jenzen-Jones told CNN, adding that losing one would be โ€œan operationally significant event.โ€


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๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistanโ€™s MoD advisor highlights Iranโ€™s advantages in conflict with US and Israel

The ongoing conflict with Iran is a war of attrition, and Tehran holds certain advantages in it, according to Dr. Maria Sultan, an advisor to Pakistanโ€™s Ministry of Defence.

In an interview with Sputnik, she stated that US assets are "measurable, visible, and extremely costly โ€” even when used for defense."

However, Sultan also acknowledged that the success of US and Israel in taking out senior Iranian officials suggested a intelligence failure on Tehranโ€™s part.

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๐Ÿšจ Iran war casualties: latest figures

As of March 5, casualties include 1,230 dead in Iran, including 168 girls killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Minab on February 28.

Casualties were also reported in several other countries across the Middle East amid the latest escalation.

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โŒ US House rejects effort to stop war with Iran โ€” reports

The US House of Representatives voted 212โ€“219 to reject a war powers resolution that would have forced the US to withdraw from its aggression against Iran unless Congress formally authorized military action.

The measure, introduced by Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna, was largely defeated along party lines. It followed a similar proposal that the Senate also rejected earlier in the week, The Guardian reported.

Supporters of the resolution argued that the US Constitution requires congressional approval before entering a military conflict.

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThe 1973 War Powers Resolution states plainly that the president may only introduce US armed forces into hostilitiesโ€ under specific conditions, Massie said, adding that โ€œnone of those conditions exist today.โ€


Critics of the conflict warned the US had launched military action without a clear objective.
๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œWe have no concrete justification for why we are putting American troops in harmโ€™s way and spending billions of dollars on a foreign war,โ€ House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.


According to The Guardian, the fighting has already resulted in six US troops killed and more than 1,200 people killed in Iran, as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.

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๐Ÿ’ฅ Iranian drone strikes US air base in Kuwait - reports An Iranian drone struck the US Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwai, local media reported. The NASA FIRMS satellite fire-tracking system detected a significant thermal anomaly inside the base area followingโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“น๐Ÿ”ฅ More footage shows fire at US Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait

A video circulating online appears to show a spreading fire at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, a facility hosting US forces, after reports of an Iranian drone strike on the base.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง IDF kills Hezbollah firepower commander in Beirut โ€” statement The Israeli military said its air force carried out a strike in the Beirut area that killed Zaid Ali Jama'a, whom it described as the Hezbollah official responsible for managing the groupโ€™sโ€ฆ
๐Ÿšจ Hezbollah warns Israeli residents to leave border towns

Hezbollah issued a warning calling on Israeli residents to evacuate border towns within a 5-kilometer range of the border.

The warning was accompanied by a map marking the affected areas along the frontier.

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๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ 'We will win by force' - Orban blasts Zelensky's threats

๐Ÿ’ฌ "I will not make any pact, there will be no compromise, we will defeat them. We will break the oil blockade. We will force the Ukrainians to restart the shipments," Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said.


Earlier in the day, Zelensky threatened Orban with the use of force amid Hungary blocking a $90bln loan from the EU to Ukraine.

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๐Ÿ‘ค Deepfake deception: AI, disinfo, and the battle for perception fueling the Iran war

Beyond the physical battlefield, Israel and the United States are also waging an online war, flooding social media with AI-generated content and fake news reports.

Here are the top fabrications of the war:

๐ŸŸ  Burj Khalifa ablaze: On March 2, Telegram channels began circulating videos purporting to show the worldโ€™s tallest skyscraper engulfed in flames. The clips depicted the blaze at various times of day and on different levels of the building, but the footage was entirely fabricated

๐ŸŸ  AI-created downed drones: The sides are employing artificial intelligence to "boost" the enemyโ€™s casualties count, for instance the case of a phony "downed" MQ-9 Reaper drone, which was later exposed as a fake

๐ŸŸ  Strikes on aircraft carriers: Footage purporting to show attacks on a US naval group near Iran has been exposed as either AI-generated or lifted from video games. The most ludicrous case featured a Soyuz-2.1a rocket striking a Japanese World War II-era battleship

๐ŸŸ  The Kurdish offensive that wasn't: On March 4, reports from Fox News and the Associated Press claimed that Iraqi Kurdish groups had launched a ground offensive against Iran. The story was swiftly denied by Aziz Ahmad, Deputy Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan

๐ŸŸ  Phony city bombardments: While both sides have continued to exchange strikes, a major portion of the photos and videos circulating online that show these attacks are AI-generated forgeries

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๐Ÿ“น US strikes Iranian drone carrier at sea โ€” CENTCOM

US Central Command said its forces struck an Iranian drone carrier, which it described as โ€œroughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier.โ€

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œToday, an Iranian drone carrierโ€ฆ was struck and is now on fire,โ€ CENTCOM said on X.


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๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Hadid-110: Iranโ€™s kamikaze drone with superior capabilities

Iran's fastest unmanned combat aerial vehicle, the jet-powered Hadid-110, is a stealth platform designed to neutralize enemy's air defense, radars, command nodes, and key military infrastructure.

Designed for deep strikes into hostile territory, it minimizes detection opportunities and reduces the reaction time for maximum battlefield impact.

The specifics below highlight its exceptional performance:

โœ… Speed: around 510 km/h

โœ… Warhead: 30-kg high-explosive fragmentation warhead

โœ… Navigation: GPS/GLONASS, inertial navigation system

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๐Ÿ’ฌ US-Israeli efforts to degrade Iranโ€™s missile might failed โ€“ military researcher

The intensity of Iranian missile attacks against the US and Israeli assets in the Middle East does not seem to abate, despite the United Statesโ€™ claims to the contrary, Konstantin Sivkov, a member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, tells Sputnik.

Despite losing a number of its missile launchers, as is expected during war, Iran has been successfully destroying US radar systems, satellite communication stations and data processing facilities in the region.

โ€œIran is striking at the target designation system โ€“ the brains, the decision making system, the early warning system,โ€ Sivkov remarks.


Iranian missile launchers, he explains, are either deployed under extensive air defense protection or hidden in underground shelters, which they leave briefly to unleash their deadly payload upon the enemy.

The US military thus has a very brief window to track down and attack these launchers while they are in the open.

The active use of decoys by Iran also makes destroying these missile launchers problematic for the US.

Back during the Desert Storm op in 1991, some 70% of the initial US missile salvos launched at Iraq ended up striking decoys, and during the NATO air raids on former Yugoslavia, the number of munitions expended on decoys was even greater, Sivkov points out.

Meanwhile, Iran has the capability to produce new mobile missile launchers to replace the destroyed ones.

The United Statesโ€™ reluctance to send more aircraft into Iranian airspace further suggests that the USโ€™ claims that Iranโ€™s air defense capabilities have been neutralized are also premature, he suggests, pointing out that the US seems to rely more on long-range missile strikes.

The US' attempt to sic Kurdish factions on Iran is tantamount to admission that their airstrike campaign did not produce the desired result, Sivkov adds: the initial plan, to cause chaos by murdering the Iranian leadership and to install a puppet regime in the country, clearly failed.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ“‰ US runs out of money, overwhelmed by Iranโ€™s resistance โ€” report

As the war with Iran proves far from a walk in the park, the Pentagon is set to ask US Congress for more funding to acquire additional weapons, The Wall Street Journal reports.

๐Ÿ’ฌ "The new funding would support the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk, and THAAD missile systems, which have been heavily used since the US and Israel began their strikes," the outlet states.


The US has spent about $5.7B on interceptors to stop Iranian missiles and drones, with the first four days of the war alone costing a staggering $11B in total, according to the WSJ.

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๐Ÿ—ฃ No words of sympathy were spoken for the killing of Iranian schoolgirls - MFA slams lack of proper response from the West

๐Ÿ’ฌ "The monstrosity of the situation lies both in the very fact of the aggression, the colossal number of victims in these very first days, and the lack of an adequate response from those who are killing innocent people," MFA Spox Maria Zakharova told Sputnik


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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel completes 26th wave of strikes on southern suburbs of Beirut

"26 waves of strikes in the Dahieh area since the start of the operation: The IDF struck overnight Hezbollah command centers and multi-story structures," the IDF wrote.


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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท USโ€“Israeli strikes on Iran: Latest updates

๐Ÿ”ถ Iran and Israel exchanged massive missile and drone strikes. Iran officially announced the start of the 21st wave of Operation True Promise 4. Iranian command promises an expansion of attacks in the coming days.

๐Ÿ”ถ Iran launched a combined Kheibar missile and drone strike targeting locations in central Tel Aviv. The Israeli airbase at Ramat-David and the Miron radar station were struck.

๐Ÿ”ถ Attacks were also carried out on US targets: a direct hit on the American airbase Ali al-Salem in Kuwait (resulting in a powerful explosion), an attack on the Al-Adiri camp in Kuwait, a strike on towers at the port of Manama in Bahrain, where the Israeli embassy is located, and an attack on the US military headquarters in Erbil, Iraq.

๐Ÿ”ถ Saudi Arabia has stated that its air defense systems destroyed three ballistic missiles heading toward Prince Sultan Airbase.

๐Ÿ”ถ Hezbollah has warned Israeli citizens to evacuate from settlements within 5 km of the Lebanese border.

๐Ÿ”ถ The US Central Command reported the destruction of an Iranian UAV carrier ship.

๐Ÿ”ถ The fourth session of the Iranian Leadership Council took place in Tehran, where discussions focused on preparations for the Experts Assembly elections to select the next leader.

๐Ÿ”ถ As a result of the attacks on Iran, 3,643 civilian structures have been damaged, including 3,090 residential homes, 528 commercial and service centers, 14 medical institutions, and 9 Red Crescent centers. Experts believe the strikes have primarily targeted densely populated areas, indicating that civilian sites have been the main focus.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel completes 26th wave of strikes on southern suburbs of Beirut "26 waves of strikes in the Dahieh area since the start of the operation: The IDF struck overnight Hezbollah command centers and multi-story structures," the IDF wrote. ๐Ÿ“ŒSubscribe toโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿšจ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran launches new combined attack using drones, missiles against targets in Israel - IRGC

๐Ÿ’ฌ "The 21st wave of Operation True Promise 4 has begun. During this combined operation, UAVs and Kheibar missiles were fired at targets in Tel Aviv," the IRGC stated as quoted by the ISNA


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โ›ฝ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary to stop transit of energy supplies for Ukraine until it launches Druzhba pipeline - Orban

๐Ÿ’ฌ "We have stopped supplying gasoline to Ukraine, we will not supply diesel fuel either, but we will continue to supply electricity, and we will also suspend important supplies for Ukraine through Hungary until Ukraine agrees to supply oil," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Kossuth radio broadcaster.


Ukraine halted the flow of oil to Hungary and Slovakia on January 27. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said earlier that Hungary had blocked the 20th package of EU sanctions on Russia and the 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine due to the Druzhba shutdown.

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