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Seemingly under intense pressure from China, Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) modified its threats to close the vital Strait of Hormuz to worldwide oil shipping, claiming that it would only attack American, Israeli, and European ships.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq categorically denied that its Peshmerga were preparing an invasion of Iran alongside the United States on Thursday, following rumors that some Iranian Kurdish groups are planning ground operations on what remains of the Iranian terror state.

You’ll be sorry. That was the warning from Iran to the U.S. on Thursday as it responded to the torpedoing of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, with a Muslim leader adding a call for “Trump’s blood.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called on Australia to work with Canada as middle-power “strategic cousins” rather than as competitors in negotiations with the world’s superpowers.

Washington, DC — The U.S. military killed an Iranian leader who led an attempted assassination plot against President Donald Trump, War Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed on Wednesday.

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times declared on Tuesday that First Lady Melania Trump’s leadership at a U.N. Security Council meeting the day before — an unprecedented act for a presidential spouse — drew “backlash from international society” for alleged hypocrisy amid the ongoing war with Iran.

Qatar said on Tuesday it disrupted two sleeper cells working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

An Israeli pilot in a U.S. built F-35 stealth fighter took out a manned Russian-made Iranian fighter jet over Tehran early Wednesday, reportedly a historic “world first” during Operation Epic Fury.

Venezuelan courts are demanding U.S.-dollar cash payments to sign off documents for the release of political prisoners under the socialist regime’s new “Amnesty” law, relatives of the prisoners denounced on Tuesday.

Several media outlets in the U.S. and Israel have reported that the U.S. has asked the Iranian Kurds to join the fight against the regime in Tehran, potentially neutralizing security forces in western Iran and paving the way for another popular uprising.

Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said on Wednesday that U.S. forces struck almost 2,000 Iranian targets within the first hundred hours of Operation Epic Fury.

Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is signaling that as president, he would cease military support for Israel, a country that he sees as an “apartheid state.”

A coalition of anti-communist organizations in Cuba and the diaspora signed a document called the Agreement for the Liberation of Cuba on Monday, detailing the construction of a government to transition the island out of 67 years of repressive and impoverishing socialist rule.

Exiled Iranian designer and activist Leila Farahbakhsh over the weekend confronted a purported “pacifist” leftist anti-U.S. rally in Florence, Italy, against the United States’ “Operation Epic Fury” — criticizing the Italian leftists for staying silent over the atrocities committed by the rogue regime against its own people.

Members of the Iranian Student Association at the University of Texas at San Antonio conducted outreach with fellow alumni to discuss the current conflict in Iran and the hardships Iranians face under the Khamenei regime. Representatives of the group met with staff members of the Army and Air Force ROTC department to deliver flowers and express their gratitude for the service and sacrifice of U.S. military members serving in the Middle East.

The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Tuesday it launched a military operation against narco-terrorists in Ecuador together with the Ecuadorian military.

Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they repelled an attack from Afghanistan, killing 67 Afghan fighters in heavy fighting along the border, with only one Pakistani casualty.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is threatening to “burn” any oil tanker that attempts to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the joint American-Israeli military strikes against Iran are “outside of international law.”

The Iranian terror regime struck seven neighboring countries following the launch of America’s “Operation Epic Fury,” which entered into its fourth day on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said in his answer to a question from Breitbart News on Tuesday that Iran, in response to Operation Epic Fury, began attacking neighbors that wanted to stay neutral.

President Donald Trump said in response to a question from Breitbart News that countries are unifying against “bad seed” Iran because of the “evil” philosophy held by its regime 

China is pleading with Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for oil shipments, but the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) insisted on Monday that any ship attempting to pass through the strategically vital strait will be “set ablaze.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) are calling for a “formal investigation” of Chinese home electronics giant Anker, arguing that its products – including the popular Eufy line of home security cameras – pose “unacceptable risks to U.S. national security.”

Iranians around the world are sharing videos of themselves doing President Donald Trump’s famous dance to thank him for taking out Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Venezuela’s socialist “interim” leader Delcy Rodríguez held a phone call on Monday with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

Pakistan imposed a three-day curfew on Monday morning following violent protests against the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, including an attack on U.S. consulates and the embassy in Islamabad.

President Donald Trump holds a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House on Tuesday, March 3.

Austin Police released the identity of two victims in the downtown mass shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in the city’s entertainment district. A third fatality was announced by authorities on Monday afternoon after a victim hospitalized as a result shooting died after being pulled from life support at an area hospital.

The Iran war hit markets hard Tuesday morning.

More than a dozen Republican Study Committee members are urging Senate Democrats to end the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding lapse, warning it is disrupting key security and operational functions as U.S. combat operations in Iran continue and investigators in Austin examine evidence the suspect may have had a ‘potential nexus to terrorism.’

President Donald Trump despairs at the diminishing relationship between the U.S. and Britain, saying Monday the historic union is “not like it used to be.” He pinpointed left-wing UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s stumbling response to events in Iran while “pandering to Muslim voters” at home as emblematic of the problem.

As missile exchanges intensified across the Middle East and commercial flights were halted amid Operation Epic Fury, Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz found himself stranded in the Gulf region, where he coordinated with U.S. and regional officials to evacuate a group of Americans to safety.

First Lady Melania Trump made history on Monday, becoming the first-ever First Lady of the United States to chair the United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting — choosing a neutral, all-business suit for the moment.

Anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Sunday announced that she will be returning to her country “in a few weeks” to continue working towards a democratic transition in the South American nation following the arrest of Nicolás Maduro.