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▸09:08 CET Guardian/Mehr — Ali Mousavi (Iran's IMO UN delegate) offers new formulation: Hormuz "open to all with adequate security arrangements, except ships of enemy countries" — but conditions it on "complete cessation of aggressions"
▸~00:44 UTC Sat Truth Social — Trump: "obliterate power plants" if Hormuz not fully open within 48h (deadline: Monday ~01:00 UTC) previously reported
▸21 Mar 17:40 GMT MEE — Turkish FM Fidan from Riyadh: Gulf countries issued their "last warnings" to Iran and are ready to take "countermeasures" if attacks continue — GCC crisis summit held Saturday

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Multiple sources | Day 22 — morning

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5 sources | Day 23 — Sunday morning

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6 active sources | Day 22 — early morning

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8 sources | Day 22 — deep night / dawn

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7 sources | Day 22 — Deep night

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14 sources | Day 22 — dead of night

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7 active sources | Day 15 — late night

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8 active sources | Day 22 — midnight

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00:28 CET

2026-03-22

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7 sources | Week 4 — evening of March 21, 2026

23:24 CET

2026-03-21

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▸~8:18 PM CET Tasnim/Iran (Guardian live): "The US and Israel attacked both Bushehr AND Natanz" — Iran's stated justification for the Dimona missile strike.
▸21 Mar evening IDF: Strike on a ballistic missile production factory in Tehran — "dozens of targets" hit, production capacity "significantly degraded".
▸~10:00 AM CET, 21 Mar Baghdad: Drone strikes Iraqi intelligence headquarters in a residential neighborhood — 1 officer killed, 1 wounded. Baghdad blames "outlaw groups". |

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14 sources | Day ~14 — evening

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14 sources | Day 21 — Saturday evening

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8 sources | Day 22 — evening

21:23 CET

2026-03-21

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▸19:56 CET UK MoD — Iran fires 2 missiles at USA-UK base Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean): intercepted/failed
▸16:59 CET Al Jazeera — UK condemns Iran's "reckless threats" after Diego Garcia attack
▸IRGC Naval Commander claims strikes on Al-Udeid (Qatar) and Ali Al-Salem (Kuwait): "hangars and fuel tanks hit with ballistic missiles and drones"

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10+ sources | Day 21 — evening

20:53 CET

2026-03-21

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▸7:09 PM CET Middle East Eye — Iran strikes Dimona with ballistic missile: "response" to Natanz attack link
▸~6:00 PM CET IDF — Natanz struck by US-Israeli attack this morning; Tehran: no radioactive leakage
▸~7:00 PM CET IDF — "Direct impact" of Iranian missile on building in Dimona; at least 39 wounded (including 12-year-old child in serious condition)

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7 sources | Day 22 — afternoon

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Day 22 — afternoon | 8 active sources

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5 sources | Day 22 — afternoon

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9 sources | Day 22 — afternoon

16:53 CET

2026-03-21

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▸~11:00 CET Tasnim/Iran — Natanz enrichment facility hit by US-Israeli strike this morning; Iranian Atomic Energy Organization: "no leakage of radioactive material" and no danger to surrounding population
▸~11:30 CET IAEA — UN agency confirms it was notified by Tehran of the attack
▸~12:00 CET IDF — Israeli military denies participation in the Natanz strike

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10 sources | Day 22 — afternoon

16:24 CET

2026-03-21

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▸~10:00 CET IAEA — Confirmed notification from Tehran: Natanz facility (Shahid Ahmadi Roshan, ~220km from Tehran) struck. No radioactive leakage. IAEA calls for maximum restraint.
▸~10:30 CET IRNA/Tasnim — Iran Atomic Energy Org.: "Criminal attack by the US and the Zionist usurper regime against the Natanz enrichment complex."
▸~11:30 CET Times of Israel — US carried out the strike with bunker buster bombs. IDF denies any Israeli involvement.

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6 sources | Day 22 — Saturday afternoon

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4 sources | Day 22 — afternoon

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14 sources | Day 22 — Saturday morning

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2 sources | Day 22 — morning CET (12:20 UTC)

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Day 22 | 6 sources | Saturday morning, March 21 2026

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14 sources | Day 21 — Morning of Day 21

09:53 CET

2026-03-21

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▸~03:00 CET NYT/Guardian — Trump writes on Truth Social: "We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts" — first explicit acknowledgment of possible end to hostilities
▸Delta: Signal is new but ambiguous: hours earlier Trump said "I don't want a ceasefire — you don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side." Meanwhile Pentagon is sending another 2,500 marines and 3 amphibious assault ships to the region.
▸Mar 20 evening Guardian/MEE — Pentagon has drafted detailed plans for occupation or naval blockade of Kharg Island, which handles 90% of Iranian oil exports

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Day 22 | 8 sources | Saturday morning, March 21, 2026

09:23 CET

2026-03-21

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4 sources | Day 21 — morning (Nowruz)

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5 sources | Day 22 — early morning

08:22 CET

2026-03-21

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▸~07:00 CET Leavitt (White House press secretary) — "The President and the Pentagon predicted it would take approximately 4-6 weeks to achieve this mission" — first official White House statement formalizing exit timeline, aligned with Trump's Truth Social post Friday evening
▸~03:00-05:00 CET IDF — new round of strikes on "terrorist regime targets" in Tehran, in response to new Iranian missiles on Israel in the early hours of Saturday
▸Morning Mar 21 Saudi Arabia — intercepts 20+ Iranian drones in the eastern region

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4 active sources | Day 22 — Nowruz morning 🌸

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