"Iran simultaneously hardened its Hormuz position from a case-by-case toll system to an explicit blanket ban on allied shipping, turning back three container ships. Iranian drones and missiles also struck Kuwait’s port, set off sirens in Bahrain and Qatar. This happened on the same night the G7 was meeting in France to discuss how to end the war."

#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #Israel #StraitofHormuz
/2

"The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said."

~ Costas Paris and Lara Seligman

#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #military #Marines #troops #Pentagon
/3

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-us-israel-news-updates/card/trump-weighs-sending-another-10-000-ground-troops-to-the-middle-east-v1OhoXwv55BiCg7MAmim

"The force, which would likely include infantry and armored vehicles, would be added to the roughly 5,000 Marines and the thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who have already been ordered to the region."

#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #military #Marines #troops #Pentagon
/4

"Trump started this war as entirely a war of choice and largely on impulse, because Venezuela was fun for him and he wanted more."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #Iran #war
/5

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-casts-his-drama-of-the-day-spell-while-the-world-moves-on

"Let me tell you something. Watching the president of the United States fall asleep in his chair at a meeting of his cabinet in the White House while the U.S. military is at war in Iran seven thousand miles away was an out of body experience I won’t soon forget."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war
/6

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/another-day-another-zombie-apocalypse

"I think everybody that voted for Trump should be strapped down to a chair and forced to watch the entirety of the press conference about the war that Donald gave Thursday, over and over again on a loop until they admit defeat and that they were wrong. That’s it. Just watch this guy."

~ Greg Olear

#Trump #Iran #war
/7

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-black-ops

"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.

'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/8

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-grifters-war

"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'

Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/9

"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/10

"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...

On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026

(continued from /11)

"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/12

"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/13

"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.

Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/14

"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering
/15

https://www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all-of-trumps-war-profiteering