Tehran is demanding unity and projecting strength after the confirmed killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Iran’s women’s national soccer team just chose silence during the anthem of the Islamic Republic.
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President Trump and Israel have decapitated Iran—literally. Its ballistic missile capabilities have been severely degraded. Its political leadership was annihilated, and its military command structure was eliminated. It’s a rogue state for all intents and purposes. The world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism is no more, its nuclear weapons ambitions buried under the rubble of its dead leaders, and only the Democrats are complaining.
Even if these talks happen, it is virtually certain that the president will not lose sight of the ultimate goal, which remains to topple the Islamic regime in Iran once and for all. If the regime survives in any form, it will gather its strength and once again menace the U.S. and Israel as quickly as it possibly can. The only way to ensure peace in the region is to end this evil regime.
“‘I Have Agreed’: Trump Says Iran’s New Leaders ‘Want To Talk,’” by Mark Tanos, Daily Caller, March 1, 2026:
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s newly installed leadership wants to resume negotiations, one day after a massive U.S.-Israeli military operation killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told The Atlantic in a phone call from Mar-a-Lago. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
Trump faulted Tehran for stalling weeks of diplomatic efforts and acknowledged that several Iranian officials who participated in those discussions died in the strikes. “Most of those people are gone,” he told the magazine. “They played too cute.” He declined to specify when negotiations would begin.
Kathmandu, Nepal – As Nepal heads for a crucial parliamentary election on March 5, the Himalayan country’s established parties are fighting not just for votes, but also for legitimacy.
That legitimacy was challenged in September last year when thousands of young Nepalis hit the streets, demanding that an ageing old guard, which has dominated Nepal’s politics for two decades, step down.
President Donald Trump stated Monday that the “big wave” of U.S. military strikes against Iran is yet to come, indicating that the most intense phase of Operation Epic Fury is imminent.
The joint U.S.-Israel military operation was launched on Saturday, targeting Iran’s military and leadership infrastructure. Under the direction of President Trump, the operation began with coordinated strikes on key Iranian sites using precision munitions from air, sea, and land platforms, including Tomahawk cruise missiles and low-cost LUCAS drones.
Key objectives of Operation Epic Fury include dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, destroying its ballistic missile capabilities, eliminating regime leadership, and achieving regime change.
President Donald Trump declared Monday that the joint U.S.–Israeli military campaign against Iran represents “our last, best chance to strike” and eliminate what he called the “intolerable threats” posed by the regime in Tehran.
The operation, launched Saturday under the name Operation Epic Fury, has already reshaped the strategic landscape.
Major Iranian leaders were killed in the opening phase, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Trump vowed the United States will continue the campaign with “ferocious, unyielding resolve.”
Hundreds of Iranians cross border into Turkey, witness says Red Lake Nation News
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For a third day, U.S. and Israeli forces are pounding Iran, striking more than a thousand targets across the country, including key government and military buildings in the capital. For now, the Iranian regime’s military is fighting back hard, firing missiles and launching drones in at least 11 countries, including Israel and Kuwait. Tony Dokoupil and Matt Gutman have the latest.
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The Astara Border Crossing between Iran and Azerbaijan has seen increased traffic over the last few days by foreign nations, as many continue to seek an exit from Tehran amid continued US and Israeli attacks.
The increased crossing traffic comes after the Azerbaijani government announced on Saturday that it would open the crossing to enable its nationals trapped in Iran to safely evacuate, as well as allow foreign nations to transit through.
As many as 500 Russian citizens are rumoured to have crossed into Azerbaijan as part of the new initiative, with eyewitnesses reporting seeing large groups passing security checkpoints.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine confirmed that the U.S. will redirect more military forces to the Middle East as the operation against Iran continues.
“This deployment included thousands of service members from all branches, hundreds of advanced fourth and fifth-generation fighters, dozens of refueling tankers, the Lincoln and Ford carrier strike group and their embarked air wings, sustained flow of munitions, fuel supplies, all supported with command and control intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance network,” explained Caine.
Iranian exiles in London are singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. And in Iran, Iranians are chanting support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Incredible.
When the Iranian people are finally free from the barbaric butchers who stole their country, Iran and Israel will do wondrous things together. That day, however, has not yet come. The Iranian Islamic regime is still in power, albeit drastically weakened. There is a great deal more that must be done. The celebration in London is a hint of how much could be accomplished by a partnership between Israel and a free Iran.
Iranian exiles in London are singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
They’re thanking Israel for killing the dictator who has stopped them coming home. pic.twitter.com/0spwlvKZun
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) March 1, 2026
The people of Iran chanting support for Bibi Netanyahuhttps://t.co/a7BpphraST pic.twitter.com/rYUQIA3sdU
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 1, 2026
Israel has perhaps the most advanced missile defense system in the world. However, it is not foolproof. Some of Iran’s missiles will get through. On Sunday, that is what happened. A missile fired by Iran landed in the city of Beit Shemesh, killing nine civilians and injuring many more. May their memory be a blessing. Rest assured that the Israeli Defense Forces will avenge this loss.
Watch: The Iranian regime just targeted a civilian neighborhood, murdering Israelis. They are attacking countries across the region. And they are murdering their own civilians. pic.twitter.com/9TtLI9xSdP
— Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein) March 1, 2026
While Israel is targeting only regime and military targets, Iran is deliberately striking Israeli civilians. pic.twitter.com/veJeCHrxKt
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) March 1, 2026
16-year-old Gabriel Baruch Rovach is the fourth victim murdered by an Iranian ballistic missile that hit Beit Shemesh this morning.
May his memory be a blessing.🕯️ pic.twitter.com/Gw8jPfY6Yk
The Iranian Regime directly fired missiles toward the civilian neighborhood of Beit Shemesh, killing innocent civilians.
The Iranian regime purposely targets civilian targets while we precisely target terror targets. This is who we’re operating against—a regime who uses… pic.twitter.com/9W8Fp4T2tH
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 1, 2026
This is what terror that targets civilians looks like: pic.twitter.com/8vUcoORNIw
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 1, 2026
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) March 1, 2026
The president said he doesn’t care about public opinion surveys as he defended the new war in the Middle East
US President Donald Trump has dismissed polls indicating that a majority of Americans disapprove of his decision to attack Iran.
A CNN poll suggests that 60% of Americans do not support the initial US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday, while a Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates that only one in four Americans approves of the attack.
“I think that the polling is very good, but I don’t care about polling. I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done a long time ago,” Trump told the New York Post in an interview published on Monday.
🔴 Watch the moment that Kuwaiti defences shot down three US military jets on Monday in an “apparent friendly fire” incident. US Central Command said that all crew members were safely recovered.
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Calls for governments to push “pro-worker AI” sound appealing. The idea is simple: If policymakers deftly guide how the technology develops, they can make sure it helps workers instead of replacing them. What’s not to like?
Here’s your trouble: Technology almost never works that neatly. Its effects on jobs are usually messy, unpredictable, and shaped by millions of decisions from businesses and entrepreneurs—not by a policy plan designed in Washington.
That’s a core point in a recent critique by economist Joshua Gans of a proposal from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson to steer AI toward worker-friendly uses. Gans says the idea runs into a basic contradiction. The proposal defines “pro-worker” technology as something that makes human capabilities and expertise more valuable. But those things are valuable partly because not everyone has them. If a new technology spreads skills more widely, it may help more workers overall—while at the same time reducing the pay advantage of those who once had rare skills.
English rock band Radiohead told ICE to “go f— yourselves” on Friday after one of their songs had been used in a video mourning the victims of illegal immigrant crime.
Radiohead issued a public statement to multiple news outlets condemning the use of their song “Let Down” in a pro-ICE video, one of multiple recent incidents of artists objecting to their music being used in pro-ICE videos.
“We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain’t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don’t get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go f— yourselves… Radiohead,” the band said, according to NBC News and other news outlets.
The U.K.’s Finance Minister Rachel Reeves has delivered her latest update on the state of the U.K. economy and public finances, with the chancellor having to concede that growth will be lower than previously expected this year.
Addressing the House of Commons on Tuesday, Reeves said “the government has the right economic plan for the country,” which was met by immediate jeers from opposition lawmakers.
A plan, she said, that was “even more important in a world that, over the last few days, has become yet more uncertain,” amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
This once again shows Israeli ingenuity and skill. Rather than targeting its enemies indiscriminately, as it is falsely accused of doing, it carries out extremely precise targeted operations. This was just a notification, but it went largely to people who support the Islamic regime, as they’re the ones who mostly use this prayer app. Most of the Iranian people have actually left Islam at this point. 47 years of Islamic rule have left them disgusted with Sharia.
The Iranian regime has threatened to unleash the “gates of hell” on the US and Israel with more intense attacks.
The US has also indicated that it plans to escalate the fighting further, threatening another big wave of air strikes on Iran, as it warned the “hardest hits” are yet to come.
Based at Portsmouth Naval Base, HMS Duncan is one of the most advanced warships in the world.
A Cheongung missile launcher is displayed during the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (ADEX 2025) at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, on October 17, 2025.
South Korean defense stocks saw massive gains on Tuesday after the country’s markets returned from a public holiday, as the Iran war fuels interest in defense names globally.
Heavyweight Hanwha Aerospace, which is South Korea’s largest defense manufacturer, saw shares surge nearly 25%, before paring gains to about 13%, while Korea Aerospace Industries gained more than 12%, but cut those to 2.4%.
Shares in air defense systems maker LIG Nex1 soared 25%, while electronic warfare systems manufacturer Victek and anti-aircraft missile components’ maker Firstec saw shares rise more than 20% and 15%, respectively.
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday (Mar 2) said he is not ruling out sending US troops into Iran, while threatening a new, “big wave” of attacks.
The 79-year-old Republican has long campaigned against decades of US military entanglements in the Middle East, but ordered a large-scale war against Iran starting Saturday.
While so far the assault has focused entirely on aerial attacks by missiles and bombs, Trump refused to rule out sending ground troops – something far riskier in terms of possible casualties.
Legacy media obituaries for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei made the ruthless tyrant sound like a teddy bear. From The Wall Street Journal, whose reporting has trended more progressive in recent years, to The Washington Post, which wears its progressive editorial orientation as a badge of honor, media outlets have beclowned themselves in their portrayals of a man who dedicated his life to murder and repression.
Borrowing from the Post’s widely ridiculed 2019 description of terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere scholar,” the Journal’s characterization of Khamenei as an “austere cleric” left many readers appalled. But it was the obituaries from the Post and The New York Times that really grated.
From its headline, “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Is Dead at 86,” to the almost lyrical depiction of his “avuncular and magnanimous aloofness,” the Times’ empathy for this brutal dictator was on full display.
Sounding more like a eulogy, the Times’ obituary read: “With his spectacles, Palestinian kaffiyeh, long robes and silver beard, Ayatollah Khamenei cast himself as a religious scholar as well as a writer and translator of works on Islam. He affected an avuncular and magnanimous aloofness, running the country from a perch above the jousting of daily politics.”
The New York Times is getting roasted for its obituary headline on Ayatollah Khamenei, where he’s described as a “Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power.”
(LifeSiteNews) — On this same issue of homosexuality as presented in Part 4 of this series, we must also consider what has been taking place publicly with bishops throughout the world, and with Pope Leo XIV, in recent months. Two examples follow.
First, the German bishops. On October 30, 2025, the German Bishops’ Conference released the document “Created, Redeemed and Loved: Visibility and Recognition of the Diversity of Sexual Identities in the School,” which boldly asserts that “the diversity of sexual identities is a fact,” and instructs that in Catholic schools, teachers not only must accept whatever gender with which a student identifies, but also must address students with gender-affirming pronouns. Moreover, teachers are required to present Catholic teaching on human sexuality as “disputed” and open to debate. As Dr. Steven Mosher, President of Population Research Institute, noted:
[W]hile the Vatican has, in the past, repeatedly condemned gender ideology as an attack on the God-given differences between men and women, as well as on the anthropological foundation of the family, it has taken no disciplinary action against the German episcopate for promoting it.[1]
Mexico has certainly hit a rough patch this year.
Earlier this week, the killing of a cartel kingpin led to widespread violence and disruptions by gangs throughout the country.
Now, hackers reportedly “jailbroke” Anthropic’s Claude chatbot and used it to help steal roughly 150 GB of sensitive data from multiple Mexican government entities, including tax and voter records.
Stealing 195 million taxpayer records shouldn’t be this easy, yet one hacker just proved that Anthropic’s Claude makes government data theft almost routine. Between December 2025 and January 2026, an unknown attacker exploited the popular AI chatbot to automate cyberattacks against multiple Mexican agencies, walking away with 150GB of sensitive data including voter records, employee credentials, and civil registry files.
The breach reads like a cyberpunk fever dream, but the method was disturbingly simple. The hacker jailbroke Claude by framing malicious requests as a “bug bounty” security program, convincing the AI to act as an “elite hacker.” Once fooled, Claude produced thousands of detailed attack plans with ready-to-execute scripts, specifying exact targets and credentials needed.
When Claude hit limits, the attacker switched to ChatGPT for lateral movement and evasion tactics—turning two consumer AI tools into a sophisticated hacking arsenal. This tag-team approach leveraged each platform’s strengths while bypassing their individual safeguards.
🚨 BREAKING: Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal 150GB of Mexican Government Data
> tell claude you’re doing a bug bounty
> claude initially refused
>“that violates AI safety guidelines”
> hacker just kept asking
> claude: “ok I’ll help”
> hack the entire mexican government… pic.twitter.com/rNNDS7xYEe— NIK (@ns123abc) February 25, 2026
Eden Schwartz, the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator, said families have played a central role in shaping the celebration.
“Part of my job is helping the students bring their cultural celebrations to life, but I really lean on them to see what they want to do,” she added.
“For the past three years, we’ve had families who’ve really just jumped in and taken control of the event and the boys love it.”
The dumpling workshop was just one of several Chinese New Year events at the school. Students also watched a lion dance performance, learned about the Chinese zodiac and walked through halls decorated with red lanterns.