🇮🇷🇮🇶❌🇺🇸 — For the first time since the beginning of the war in Iran, an FPV drone was used by a pro-Iran Iraqi group inside the US Victoria base in Baghdad.

🇮🇱🇺🇦⚡️ — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested talks with Ukrainian President Zelensky regarding Ukrainian interceptor drones, Ynet reports.

➡️ The meeting is expected to take place early next week.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Sirens are sounding in the Tel Aviv district, central Israel, due to incoming Iranian ballistic missiles.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — A single Iranian ballistic missile has been intercepted.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — Scenes from Ramat Gan, central Israel, following an impact.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. intelligence has circulated to President Trump and his inner circle that Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had reservations about his son Mojtaba succeeding him, believing he lacked the capability and qualifications for the role and had personal issues, according to CBS.

➡️ Trump has privately said he is unsure whether the information matters, adding that he currently views Iran as essentially leaderless.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Israeli airstrikes on the oil depots in and near Tehran have released toxic pollutants that could impact millions of people for decades, Bloomberg reports.

➡️ Burning fuel and missile explosions sent heavy metals and chemical particles into the air, which mixed with rainfall and created “black rain” over the city.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cut staff in offices responsible for preventing and investigating civilian casualties from about 200 to fewer than 40 despite warnings from military leaders, POLITICO reports.

➡️ Critics say the move weakened oversight before the strike on an Iranian girls’ school in Minab that killed more than 170 students, while Hegseth viewed the offices as unnecessary and linked to “woke” policies.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — Two weeks after the U.S.–Israeli strikes began, many Iranians who once hoped the war would lead to the fall of the government now feel disappointed and betrayed, WSJ reports.

➡️ Residents say the mood in Tehran has shifted from optimism to despair as the country faces destruction; meanwhile, the same leadership remains in power.

➡️ Some warn the government could become “stronger, crueler, and more monstrous,” while others say “the penny has dropped” that the war may lead to state collapse rather than regime change.

➡️ Many who initially supported the offensive now believe their hopes were used to justify the war.

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — Shrapnel from an Iranian ballistic missile damaged a building housing U.S. diplomats in Israel, according to Israeli Channel 12.

🇰🇵⚡️ — WATCH: North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju Ae, oversaw a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems on Saturday.

➡️ The state said the drill showcased its deterrence capabilities and its ability to hit targets up to 420 km away, potentially using tactical nuclear weapons.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧⚡️ — Israel's military says the man who drove a truck into the Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan last Thursday had a brother who was a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this month.

➡️ The attacker, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, died by suicide after the incident.

➡️ Four of his relatives were killed in the March 5 strike, including his brother Ibrahim Ghazali and Ibrahim’s two children.

➡️ The IDF said Ibrahim led a Hezbollah weapons team in the Badr unit responsible for launching rockets at Israel.

➡️ A Hezbollah official did not confirm Ibrahim's role in the group but said the Michigan attack was carried out in revenge for his family.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper is managing both the military campaign and political pressures of the war against Iran as the conflict spreads across the region, CNN reports.

➡️ With 13 U.S. troops killed and 140 wounded, he faces growing pressure to achieve results despite an unclear endgame.

➡️ Cooper has coordinated closely with Israel, speaking almost daily with IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, while also engaging in diplomatic efforts.