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'We Sincerely Thank India': Iran Thanks India For 1st Medical Aid Shipment To Iran As Conflict Continues

As tensions continue in the Middle East, India has taken a humanitarian step by sending its first shipment of medical aid to Iran. The assistance arrived on Wednesday, as the conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States entered its 19th day.

The move highlights India's effort to support civilians affected by the crisis.

The medical supplies were delivered to Iranian Red Crescent Society in Tehran. The aid is expected to help hospitals and emergency teams manage the growing number of injured people.In a statement, the Embassy of Iran in India thanked India for its support."We sincerely thank the kind people of India," the embassy said, acknowledging the gesture as a sign of goodwill and humanitarian cooperation.

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Senior UAE official: Iran’s attacks will push Gulf states closer to Israel​

A top adviser to the United Arab Emirates’ president says that Iran’s attacks on Gulf states are pushing them closer to Israel and to the US.

“Iran’s full-throttle attack on the Gulf states will actually strengthen the Israeli role in the Gulf, will not diminish it,” Anwar Gargash says during a Council on Foreign Relations event.

“We’re not seeing 2,000 Israeli missiles and drones targeting us,” says Gargash. “We’re seeing 2,000 Iranian missiles and drones targeting us.”

“For countries that have relations with Israel, this is — you know, this relationship, in my opinion, will be even more strengthened,” he continues. “For countries that don’t have, I expect… that more channels will be open.
 

Iran warns of imminent strikes on major oil, gas facilities in Gulf countries​

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned Wednesday of imminent strikes on major oil and gas facilities in Gulf countries, urging civilians and workers to evacuate areas near key energy infrastructure.

According to Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency, the IRGC issued an "urgent warning" to citizens and residents near several facilities in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.

The statement listed multiple sites it described as "direct and legitimate targets," including the SAMREF refinery and Jubail petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia, the Al Hosn gas field in the UAE, and the Mesaieed petrochemical complex and Ras Laffan refinery in Qatar.

The IRGC called on civilians, residents, and employees to immediately leave these areas and move to a safe distance without delay, warning that the sites could be targeted "within the coming hours."

It said that repeated warnings had previously been issued to Gulf governments, accusing them of pursuing what it described as a "dangerous path."

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Iran warns of imminent strikes on major oil, gas facilities in Gulf countries

Iran warns of imminent strikes on major oil, gas facilities in Gulf countries
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Gulf oil sites evacuated after Iran threatens imminent air strikes​


Oil sites across the Gulf have been forced to evacuate after Iran issued a warning in the latest escalation of the war which has continued for a third week.

Iran issued an evacuation warning to oil facilities across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar that they would be targeted by strikes "in the coming hours."

The warning, reported by Iranian state media on Wednesday, declared: "These centres have become direct and legitimate targets and will be targeted in the coming hours.

“Therefore, all citizens, residents, and employees are requested to immediately leave these areas and move to a safe distance without any delay.”

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Gulf oil sites evacuated after Iran threatens imminent air strikes

Evacuations were ordered shortly after Iranian oil facilities in South Pars and Asaluyeh came under attack
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Iran launched waves of missiles and drones at Israel and Persian Gulf states Wednesday, lashing out as Israel said it killed another top official – Iran's intelligence minister Esmail Khatib – after killing top security chief Ali Larijani. Two people were killed near Tel Aviv by falling debris, Israeli first responders said.
 
Qatar Expels Iranian Diplomats After Missile Strike on Key LNG Facility

Qatar has declared Iranian military and security attaches, along with their staff, persona non grata and ordered them to leave the country within 24 hours following a missile strike on its critical energy infrastructure.

In a statement, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the decision was taken in response to repeated Iranian attacks, marking a sharp escalation in diplomatic tensions between Doha and Iran.

The move came after missiles struck Ras Laffan Industrial City, the heart of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas industry. QatarEnergy confirmed that the attack caused widespread fires and “significant damage” to the facility.

 
U.S. officials 'not allowed' to tell Trump Iran war concerns, former counterterrorism director claims
'There wasn't a robust debate' Joe Kent says during interview with Tucker Carlson

Joe Kent, the former U.S. counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials "were not allowed" to share their doubts about the airstrikes with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Speaking on Tucker Carlson's podcast, Kent said the president relied on a small circle of advisers in making his decision to strike Iran. He also claimed Israel forced Trump's hand and said this happened despite there being no evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S.

"A good deal of key decision makers were not allowed to come and express their opinion to the president," Kent told the conservative pundit. "There wasn't a robust debate."

 
Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation
Strike was first time a fossil fuel energy production facility has been hit. But why is it significant and who does it affect?

Strikes by both sides on so-called upstream gas production facilities in recent days are a significant escalation in the war in the Middle East, with potentially long-term consequences.

The strikes were the first time facilities associated with the production of fossil fuel energy had been hit in the conflict, rather than sites associated more generally with the oil and gas industry.

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Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation

Strike was first time a fossil fuel energy production facility has been hit. But why is it significant and who does it affect?
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Brazilian truckers weigh strike as diesel prices jump amid Middle East conflict

Truck drivers' unions in Brazil are advocating for a strike as early as this week after the recent jump in diesel prices due to the conflict in the Middle East, ‌a union head said on Tuesday.

A truckers' strike could have dire consequences for Brazil, if it is widespread, as the country is heavily reliant on the drivers to transport products across the country and into ports.

 
Exclusive: US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.
The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations, with the Iran war well into its third week

 
Mwalimu-G said:
Saudi sources say Baron Trump was paid $2B to have US soldiers deployed to "protect Saudi Arabia". He's now asking for more and MBS is not happy.
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Donald Trump’s excessively transactional mindset makes him come across less like a head of state and more like a caricature of a 1940s New York mob boss except he’s wielding the machinery of the Republican Party and the power of the United States. His approach to the Gulf often feels less like diplomacy and more like coercion. The contrast is especially striking: he expresses outrage when Qatar’s infrastructure is hit, yet downplays the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, dismissing it as peripheral to U.S. interests. Why...? Qatar gave him an aeroplane.

If there is any strategic “win” on the American side so far, it's that by the end of this conflict, the Gulf Cooperation Council risks emerging not as a bloc of partners, but as a set of states increasingly dependent on, and subordinate to, American power. Basically vassal states.
 
France will never take part in operations to unblock Hormuz Strait amid hostilities, says Macron

PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, pushing back on comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that Paris was ‌willing to help.

Trump, speaking at a White House event on Monday, said he had spoken to Macron, giving him an "8 out of 10" score on his stance towards getting allies to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, and suggested Macron would join U.S.-backed efforts.

 
Tulsi Gabbard tells Senate panel US strikes on Iran are strategic success
National intelligence director says Iran’s conventional military projection capabilities had been ‘largely destroyed’

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who in 2019 was selling “No War With Iran” T-shirts, told the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday that US strikes on Iran had been a strategic success.

“I’d like to remind those who are watching what I am briefing here today conveys the intelligence community’s assessment of the threats facing US citizens, our homeland and our interests,” Gabbard told the committee, “not my personal views or opinions.”

Iran’s retaliatory strikes against the US-Israeli campaign have already killed 13 American service members and wounded approximately 200 more, cost taxpayers billions of dollars and scrambled global supply chains for oil, fertilizer and aluminum. This week, when Donald Trump asked allies to help reopen the strait of Hormuz, the call wasn’t answered.

According to the annual global threat assessment report, Iran’s conventional military projection capabilities had been “largely destroyed”, Gabbard said, and Iran’s strategic position “significantly degraded”. But, the regime appears intact, and since internal protests have been violently suppressed with thousands of people killed, if Iran survives it would probably “seek to begin a years-long effort to rebuild its military, missiles and UAV forces”.

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Tulsi Gabbard tells Senate panel US strikes on Iran are strategic success

National intelligence director says Iran’s conventional military projection capabilities had been ‘largely destroyed’
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Tommy Kwesule. said:
Donald Trump’s excessively transactional mindset makes him come across less like a head of state and more like a caricature of a 1940s New York mob boss except he’s wielding the machinery of the Republican Party and the power of the United States. His approach to the Gulf often feels less like diplomacy and more like coercion. The contrast is especially striking: he expresses outrage when Qatar’s infrastructure is hit, yet downplays the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, dismissing it as peripheral to U.S. interests. Why...? Qatar gave him an aeroplane.

If there is any strategic “win” on the American side so far, it's that by the end of this conflict, the Gulf Cooperation Council risks emerging not as a bloc of partners, but as a set of states increasingly dependent on, and subordinate to, American power. Basically vassal states.
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Mwalimu-G said:
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Paid with his own coin. Played at his own game. If this is real.🤣🤣🤣

Trump exhibits strikingly little second-order thinking which blinds him to the truth that is cooperation. His decision-making appears almost entirely first-order and self-centered: if a move doesn't deliver a clear, immediate benefit to him personally (or to his image/brand/power), it's dismissed as worthless, or worse, suspect. He frames nearly every interaction, trade deals, alliances, negotiations, even domestic policy, as a pure zero-sum contest: there must be a winner and a loser, and the only acceptable outcome is him (or "America First" under his definition) coming out clearly on top.
 
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