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▸ 🚢 CENTCOM: Iranian Jamaran-class corvette struck at port on Gulf of Oman — sinking. Operation "Epic Fury"
▸ 🇺🇸 Trump: more US casualties "likely"
▸ 🇮🇷 IRGC claims 560 US casualties (Pentagon confirms 3 KIA + 5 WIA) — war of numbers

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 01:31 CET (2 Mar)

Night report — breaking

01:32 CET

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▸ 🇱🇧 BREAKING: Projectiles launched from Lebanon toward Israel in early hours of March 2 — sirens across Haifa and Upper Galilee. IDF intercepted one rocket, others hit open areas
▸ 🇮🇷 Al Jazeera confirms multiple senior security officials killed alongside Khamenei

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 01:01 CET (2 Mar)

Night report — new developments only

01:01 CET

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▸ 🏛️ IAEA calls extraordinary meeting on Iran — nuclear question returns to center stage

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 00:31 CET (2 Mar)

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Night report

00:32 CET

▸ 📈 Oil surges 13% in early Asian trading. Analysts warn of possible $100/barrel spike (+37% from Friday's close)
▸ 🌊 Strait of Hormuz: key question is whether war leads to prolonged traffic disruption — world's most critical oil chokepoint
▸ 📉 Guardian: global markets could tumble Monday, motorists to pay more at the pump

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 00:01 CET (2 Mar)

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Night report

00:02 CET

▸ 🇮🇷 Explosions reported near Tehran's iconic landmarks: Azadi Stadium, Azadi Square, Milad Tower — symbolic heart of the capital under attack
▸ 🏥 Iranian Red Crescent: explosions near Tehran hospitals and Peace Building (Red Crescent HQ)
▸ 🏫 Bombed school identified as Minab school — death toll confirmed at 148

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 23:31 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Last 30 minutes developments

23:32 CET

▸ 🇬🇧 UK TURNING POINT: PM Starmer authorizes US to use British military bases for strikes against Iran — to "destroy Iranian missiles at source, in storage depots and launchers"
▸ 🇺🇸 Trump: "The attack will continue until ALL our objectives are achieved"
▸ 🇬🇧 Starmer: Iran struck military base in Bahrain, narrowly missing British personnel

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 23:01 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Last 30 minutes developments

23:02 CET

▸ 💀 First US casualties: 3 American troops killed, 5 seriously wounded — Pentagon confirms
▸ 🇮🇱 At least 9 killed in Iranian missile attack on small Israeli city near Jerusalem
▸ 🇦🇺 115,000 Australians still in Middle East — government warns of "serious" travel disruptions

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 22:31 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last half hour

22:32 CET

▸ 🇺🇸 IRGC (Pasdaran) headquarters destroyed — military command decapitated
▸ 🇮🇱 IDF: new wave of strikes on ballistic missile sites and air defences
▸ 🇮🇷 Larijani announces temporary leadership. Gen. Pakpour's death confirmed (new IRGC chief)

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 22:01 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last half hour

22:02 CET

▸ 🇺🇸 Trump: "4-week process — it's a big country, it will take 4 weeks or less"
▸ 🇺🇸 Trump on CNBC: operations "ahead of schedule"
▸ 🏛️ US Congress: War Powers Resolution vote this week to halt operations

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 21:31 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last half hour

21:32 CET

▸ 🏫 Strike on girls' primary school in southern Iran: 148–165 dead, 95 wounded (Iranian state media)
▸ 🇨🇳 China condemns attacks as "unacceptable", calls for immediate ceasefire
▸ 🇮🇱 Guardian: Israel embraces militarism — few critics of Netanyahu's war

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 21:01 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last half hour

21:01 CET

▸ 🇮🇷 AP: new Iranian leaders "open to talks with US" — de-escalation signal
▸ 🇺🇸 Trump threatens: "If Iran strikes again, we will respond WITH A FORCE NEVER SEEN BEFORE"
▸ 💀 22 dead in pro-Iran protests in Pakistan and Iraq — fire at US consulate in Lahore

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 20:01 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last half hour

20:02 CET

▸ 🏥 Iranian media report strike on a hospital in Tehran — if confirmed, first direct attack on healthcare facilities in the capital
▸ 🇮🇱 Defence Minister Katz: Khamenei killed "with the first blow". "The axis of evil has suffered a critical blow"
▸ 🇺🇸 Trump says he has "agreed to talk" with Tehran — first sign of diplomatic opening

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 19:31 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last half hour

19:32 CET

▸ 🇺🇸 Trump: "operation proceeding rapidly". Declares 9 Iranian navy ships "destroyed and sunk"
▸ 🇮🇷 Iranian state TV hit by strike — powerful explosions in Tehran Sunday evening. TV not put off air but confirmed it was targeted
▸ 🌍 Guardian editorial: "Trump's campaign in Iran is an illegal war that risks spinning out of control"

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 19:01 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last hour

19:02 CET

▸ 🇺🇸 Trump on Fox News: "48 Iranian leaders killed" in US-Israel strikes. Not independently verified
▸ 🇦🇪 UAE: 346 missiles and drones intercepted over Emirati territory. Video shows Iranian drone hitting UAE naval base
▸ 🇬🇧 Iranian diaspora celebrate in London and Manchester: "You were not free"

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 18:16 CET

18 sources consulted (14 RSS + 4 web search) | Developments in the last 2 hours

17:16 CET

▸ 🇦🇪 Iranian drones hit Al Salam naval base in Abu Dhabi, which also hosts French forces. Fire in two containers, no casualties. UAE condemns as "flagrant act of aggression"
▸ 🇮🇷 IRGC reveals full list of targets hit in "Truthful Promise 4": Al Udeid (Qatar), Al Dhafra (UAE), US Fifth Fleet (Bahrain), Ali Al Salem (Kuwait), Muwaffaq Salti (Jordan) + multiple sites in Israel
▸ 🇮🇱 Trump declares: "I will speak with Iranian leaders". IDF publishes new footage of strikes on "Iranian regime terrorist HQ" in Tehran

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 18:36 CET

17 sources consulted (14 RSS + 3 web search) | Developments in the last 2 hours

16:36 CET

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▸ 🔥 Violent protests erupt in Iran: demonstrators set buildings on fire in Tehran (Gholhak and Sa'adat Abad districts), including mosques. Armed clashes in Kermanshah province — at least 10 IRGC members killed by demonstrators
▸ ⚔️ Israel launches new wave of strikes against Iranian targets in central Tehran (1 March). IDF claims to have destroyed half of Iran's missile stockpiles
▸ 🇷🇺 Putin sends official condolences to Iranian president over Khamenei's "cynical assassination". But Politico notes: "Putin's friendship has limits — as Iran has just discovered". Russia-Iran treaty does NOT provide for mutual military assistance

📰 MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE — 18:04 CET

14 RSS sources + 3 web search | Developments in the last few hours

16:04 CET

▸ 🇮🇷 IRNA officially confirms the death of Admiral Shamkhani and Gen. Pakpour, previously announced only by Israeli sources
▸ ⚔️ IRGC launches 6th wave of retaliation — "Truthful Promise 4": 27 US military installations in the Middle East hit with missiles and drones. Tel Nof airbase, Israeli military HQ and defence industry complex in Tel Aviv also hit
▸ 🇨🇳 Chinese citizens wounded in the attacks. Wang Yi: attacks "unacceptable". Xinhua describes the operation as "brazen aggression against a sovereign nation" and "power politics and hegemony"