The Latest: About 140 US troops injured, 8 severely, so far in Iran war, Pentagon says

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would beryllium the astir aggravated time yet of U.S. strikes wrong Iran. The Islamic Republic, its firepower diminished, vowed to combat on. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war’s purpose is simply a fashionable overthrow of Iran’s government, and “we are breaking their bones.” White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said U.S. President Donald Trump “is not making thing up” arsenic helium offers varying justifications for launching the war.

The U.S. banal marketplace and lipid prices were holding comparatively dependable Tuesday aft Trump's signals astir however agelong the warfare could past caused chaotic swings successful fiscal and substance markets. The Pentagon, meanwhile, offered its archetypal tally of American wounded, saying astir 140 U.S. troops person been injured, 8 severely.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf dismissed immoderate proposition of seeking a ceasefire, portion different apical Iranian information official, Ali Larijani, warned Trump himself, penning connected X that “Iran doesn’t fearfulness your bare threats. Even those bigger than you couldn’t destruct Iran. Be cautious not to get eliminated yourself.”

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JUST IN: Trump says US ‘completely destroyed’ 10 inactive mine-laying vessels aft reports of Iran enactment successful Strait of Hormuz

Iranian diplomat says the UN is ‘turning a unsighted eye’ to the interaction of US-Israeli strikes

The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations erstwhile again criticized the U.N. and its astir almighty assemblage — the Security Council — for what helium characterized arsenic continued soundlessness portion the U.S.-Israeli warfare against Iran stretches into its 11th day.

“The Council is turning a unsighted oculus to these sedate violations, contempt its superior work nether the U.N. Charter to support planetary bid and security,” Amir Saeid Iravani told reporters Tuesday.

“Today it is Iran,” helium said, “tomorrow it could beryllium immoderate different sovereign state.”

US stocks gaffe arsenic Wall Street waits for the adjacent awesome connected however agelong warfare with Iran whitethorn last

The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Tuesday aft giving up an aboriginal gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite was fundamentally flat.

Oil prices pulled backmost from wherever they were successful the last moments of the U.S. banal market’s trading precocious Monday. That was aft they plunged from astir $120 per tube toward $90 connected hopes for a speedy extremity to the war.

Stocks roseate successful Asia and Europe successful their archetypal accidental to commercialized aft that autumn for lipid prices.

Trump is disquieted astir Iran putting mines successful the Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. president said helium has nary reports of Iran putting explosive mines successful the strategical waterway. But if Tehran did, “we privation them removed, IMMEDIATELY!” helium posted connected societal media.

“If for immoderate crushed mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran volition beryllium astatine a level ne'er seen before,” Trump wrote.

The interest is that mines could marque it intolerable for tankers to walk done the strait, which could origin lipid and earthy state prices to rise. Trump has been delicate to higher vigor prices arsenic a home governmental issue, arsenic his economical statement to voters is based connected keeping gasoline costs low.

A 5th of the world’s lipid passes done the strait, which is lone astir 33 kilometers (21 miles) wide astatine its narrowest point.

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UN Security Council to ballot connected demanding Iran halt attacking its Arab neighbors

The draught resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, condemns Iran’s attacks connected Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The measurement calls for an contiguous extremity to each strikes and threats against neighboring states, including done proxies.

A ballot has been scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, 3 diplomats said, speaking connected information of anonymity up of an authoritative announcement.

The draft, sponsored by Gulf Cooperation Council members, would beryllium the archetypal Security Council solution considered since Israel and the United States launched airstrikes connected Iran and Tehran responded with attacks against Israel and crossed the region.

Trump medication offers $20 cardinal successful reinsurance to get tankers moving

Military escorts could reopen the Strait of Hormuz for lipid and earthy state shipments and trim a planetary proviso shortage created by the Iran war. And Trump has said the U.S. Navy would escort lipid tankers done the strait if necessary. But those escorts haven’t happened yet, the White House said Tuesday.

For now, the Trump medication is providing vessel reinsurance — $20 cardinal connected a rolling basis, the U.S. International Development Finance Corp. said — truthful that shipping companies operating successful the Gulf portion tin beryllium insured against fiscal losses caused by unstable governmental conditions, authorities actions oregon violence.

There are presently astir 400 lipid and merchandise tankers idle successful the Gulf, and 1 lipid tanker passed done the Strait of Hormuz without incidental connected Monday, according to information from MarineTraffic, a task that tracks the question of vessels astir the globe utilizing publically disposable data.

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More explosions heard successful Doha arsenic Iran's neighbors intercept missiles

The Qatari Defense Ministry says it intercepted different rocket onslaught from Iran. Earlier successful the day, Qatar said it intercepted 5 Iranian ballistic missiles launched, with nary casualties oregon harm reported.

The defence ministry of Bahrain, location to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters, said it has intercepted 105 ballistic missiles and 176 drones since the warfare began. One deed a residential gathering successful Bahrain’s capital, Manama, sidesplitting a 29-year-old pistillate and wounding 8 others, the Interior Ministry said.

Israel’s subject said it launched caller airstrikes targeting Iran’s capital, Tehran, wherever witnesses reported immoderate of the heaviest bombing yet. Hegseth said Tuesday's U.S. bombardments would beryllium the astir aggravated truthful acold successful the war.

The United Arab Emirates’ Defense Ministry said 9 drones deed the state connected Tuesday, portion it intercepted 8 missiles and 26 drones, and that the attacks person killed six radical and injured 122 others.

A vessel apt came nether onslaught successful the Persian Gulf disconnected the seashore of Abu Dhabi, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations halfway reported. If confirmed, that would grow the radius of ongoing assaults against shipping by Iran.

Germany’s overseas curate says Iran is ‘not ready’ for an extremity the war

“If they were acceptable for a diplomatic solution, it is achievable,” Johann Wadephul said during a sojourn to Jerusalem. “But for now, this is what we perceive from Tehran, they are not acceptable for a diplomatic solution. And arsenic agelong arsenic this is not the case, we inactive person to wait.”

Wadephul met with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar. It is the archetypal sojourn by a European authoritative to Israel since the opening of the warfare with Iran.

White House avoids explaining wherefore Trump erroneously claimed Iran has Tomahawks

Press caput Karoline Leavitt didn’t reply wherefore Trump falsely asserted connected Monday that Iran has entree to the U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile, the limb apt utilized to onslaught a girls schoolhouse successful Iran, sidesplitting 165 people.

She responded successful portion that “the president has a close to stock his opinions with the American public” portion noting “he has said he’ll judge the decision of that investigation.”

Raytheon, the U.S. shaper of the Tomahawk, sells the limb to immoderate allies, but determination is nary grounds to suggest that Iran has gotten its hands connected the cruise missile.

Israel says Iran is utilizing clump munitions. What to cognize astir the weapons

Israel says Iran has been firing clump munitions passim this war, adding a analyzable and deadly situation to Israel’s already-stretched aerial defenses.

The warheads burst unfastened astatine precocious altitudes, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets crossed a wide area. The smaller bombs, which astatine nighttime tin lucifer orangish fireballs, are hard to intercept and person proven lethal.

Normally restrictive astir releasing accusation connected Iranian hits and damage, Israeli authorities successful caller days person sought to amended the nationalist astir their dangers, which tin persist arsenic unexploded bombs connected the crushed adjacent aft civilians permission shelters. At slightest 3 radical person been killed, including 2 astatine a operation tract successful cardinal Israel connected Tuesday.

Over 120 countries person signed an planetary normal banning the usage of clump munitions. Israel, the United States and Iran are among the nations that person not joined the treaty. Israel utilized the limb erstwhile it fought the Iran-allied Lebanese militant radical Hezbollah successful 2006.

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About 140 US troops person been injured successful Iran war, 8 severely, and 108 returned to duty, Pentagon says

The Pentagon says astir 140 U.S. work members person been wounded successful struggle with Iran.

“The immense bulk of these injuries person been minor, and 108 work members person already returned to duty,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said successful an emailed statement. Eight are presently “severely injured,” Parnell added.

These numbers are the archetypal penetration into the broader toll of injuries sustained by U.S. troops aft a barrage of retaliatory rocket and drone strikes from Iran that besides killed 7 soldiers successful Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Residents of Tehran study immoderate of the war’s heaviest airstrikes

They accidental extended strikes led to energy cuts successful galore occidental neighborhoods. One nonmigratory who lives successful the occidental portion of the superior said his vicinity was shaking for fractional an hr due to the fact that of strikes astir midnight.

Another nonmigratory said helium didn’t deliberation helium would past the night.

A 27-year-old parent of a toddler said she witnessed a residential gathering get hit. She and others reached by The Associated Press spoke connected information of anonymity to forestall reprisals. Iranian media said civilians were the main casualties successful the overnight strikes. AP could not independently corroborate the claims.

On Tuesday, Tehran’s streets were little crowded and galore backstage businesses closed their offices earlier, fearing much strikes.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would beryllium the astir aggravated time yet of U.S. strikes wrong Iran.

— Jon Gambrell

UN Security Council to clasp an exigency gathering connected Lebanon fighting

Humanitarian main Tom Fletcher volition little the Security Council astatine an exigency gathering Wednesday morning, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.

France called for the gathering with enactment from the council’s different European members: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Latvia. Paris expressed heavy interest astir escalating unit successful Lebanon, wherever Israel has resumed deadly airstrikes, and condemned Hezbollah’s attacks connected Israel since March 1.

France’s Foreign Ministry urged Hezbollah “to extremity its operations and manus implicit its weapons” and connected Israel “to refrain from immoderate land-based oregon semipermanent interventions successful Lebanon.”

Putin speaks with Iran’s president a time aft a telephone with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the request for a governmental colony to the warfare during his telephone telephone Tuesday with Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian.

Putin besides reaffirmed his “principled presumption successful favour of a speedy de-escalation of the conflict,” the Kremlin said successful a readout, adding that Pezeshkian thanked Putin for Russia’s support, including humanitarian assistance.

The 2 men past spoke by telephone connected Friday, and their 2nd authoritative telephone of the warfare comes a time aft the Russian person discussed the struggle with Trump.

Israeli occurrence kills 1 idiosyncratic successful Gaza

Several radical besides were wounded erstwhile Israeli forces fired astatine a location successful cardinal Gaza’s Zawaida country connected Tuesday, according to Al-Aqsa Hospital. The Israeli subject did not instantly comment.

Gaza has seen near-daily Israeli strikes during the existent warfare with Iran, sidesplitting astatine slightest 18 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. Nearly 650 radical successful Gaza person been killed since Israel and Hamas agreed to a fragile ceasefire woody successful October, according to the ministry.

Gaza’s militants person truthful acold stayed connected the sidelines during the existent U.S.-Israeli warfare with Iran.

Canadian constabulary analyse gunfire astatine US consulate

Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo said 2 individuals emerged from a achromatic Honda CRV SUV astatine astir 4:30 a.m. and fired aggregate shots astatine the gathering earlier fleeing. Nobody was injured.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather called it a nationalist information incidental and said the American and Israeli consulates arsenic good arsenic embassies successful Ottawa volition spot much security.

Two Toronto-area synagogues were struck by gunfire past weekend. Toronto has a ample Iranian assemblage and determination person been demonstrations extracurricular the U.S. consulate some successful enactment and successful protestation of the war.

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Ukraine is sending anti-drone subject experts to the Middle East

Three afloat equipped teams volition get this week successful Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists Tuesday.

Answering a follow-up question, Zelenskyy’s communications advisor said an adept squad was besides being sent to a U.S. basal successful Jordan. An authoritative successful the president’s bureau confirmed that these are subject personnel.

Last week, helium said the U.S. and its allies successful the Middle East were seeking Ukraine’s expertise successful countering Iran’s Shahed drones.

Russia has fired tens of thousands of Shaheds astatine Ukraine since it invaded its neighbour conscionable implicit 4 years ago.

International Energy Agency holds exigency meeting

IEA main Fatih Birol convened the agency’s 30 subordinate states for talks Tuesday to measure information of lipid supplies and "inform a consequent determination connected whether to marque exigency stocks of IEA countries available" present that the concern successful the Middle East “is creating important and increasing risks” for the lipid market.

IEA subordinate countries, including the U.S., presently clasp implicit 1.2 cardinal barrels of nationalist exigency lipid stocks. The IEA hosted a gathering astatine its Paris office earlier successful the time with G7 vigor ministers.

US bombers instrumentality disconnected from a British base

The 3 B-1 bombers took disconnected conscionable hours aft the U.S. defence caput said Tuesday would bring the astir aggravated strikes yet connected Iran.

Britain initially refused U.S. requests to usage bases determination for the war, angering Trump. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer aboriginal said the bases could beryllium utilized for attacks connected Iran’s rocket programme but not different targets.

The British destroyer HMS Dragon besides sailed Tuesday from Portsmouth toward the eastbound Mediterranean to assistance support Cyprus aft an Iranian-made drone struck the U.K.’s aerial basal there.

Kelly says Trump medication has nary exit strategy successful Iran

Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, told reporters astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Tuesday that the warfare successful Iran does not look to beryllium coming to a adjacent immoderate clip soon.

Kelly pointed to conflicting statements betwixt Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, astir whether the subject cognition was opening oregon nearing its end.

“Clearly they bash not person a strategical goal,” Kelly said. “They didn’t person a plan. They person nary timeline. And due to the fact that of that they person nary exit strategy.”

Democratic legislator is ‘dissatisfied and angry’ aft a classified briefing

“I americium near with much questions than answers, particularly astir the outgo of the war,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told reporters aft the briefing earlier the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The imaginable deployment of American crushed troops to execute Trump medication objectives is Blumenthal's biggest concern. He's besides disquieted astir Russia and China assisting Iran.

“The American radical merit to cognize overmuch much than this medication has told them astir the outgo of the war, the information to our sons and daughters successful uniform, and the imaginable for further escalation,” Blumenthal said.

Pro-government unpaid unit is retired successful unit to crush dissent, Iranian lawyer says

The location of a 39-year-old Iranian lawyer successful the metropolis of Ahvaz shook with each detonation earlier she fled with her brother, sister, their relatives and their dogs to the family’s strawberry farm.

The U.S.-Israeli run has struck dense blows to Iran’s enactment and targeted the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and the all-volunteer paramilitary Basij, which led the crushing of waves of anti-government protests.

But members of the Basij are retired successful unit and heavy armed, “waiting for the slightest movement” showing dissent, the lawyer said. She erstwhile campaigned against the mandatory hijab and stopped wearing it years ago, but present wears 1 extracurricular their location for fearfulness of provoking the Basij.

— By Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath

Senators are expecting a study connected Iran schoolhouse strike

U.S. senators emerged from a classified briefing confirming an ongoing Department of Defense probe into a onslaught that killed 165 radical astatine a girls schoolhouse adjacent an Iranian subject base.

“They person a timeline successful which they privation to beryllium capable to supply america with a afloat report,” said Republican Sen. Mike Rounds, who sits connected the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We are a federation that does not people civilians,” helium added.

Mounting grounds points to U.S. culpability for the Feb. 28 strike, but Trump has repeatedly claimed Iran was liable for the blast.

Witkoff says Russians told Trump connected Monday that they were not sharing quality with Iran

The president’s envoy said during an interrogation Tuesday connected CNBC that the contented was raised during a telephone Trump had with Putin and the Russians told the president they were not sharing intelligence.

“We tin instrumentality them astatine their word,” Steve Witkoff said.

He besides said: “Let’s anticipation that they’re not sharing.”

When asked if Russia had successful information been sharing quality with Iran, Witkoff said: “Well, I’m not an quality officer, truthful I can’t archer you.”

State Department says much than 40,000 Americans person returned to US from the Middle East since commencement of Iran war

The immense bulk person returned commercially without authorities assistance.

The State Department said successful a connection connected Tuesday that it has organized much than 2 twelve charter flights that person carried thousands of U.S. citizens from assorted Mideast countries to either the United States oregon Europe but that astir of the much than 27,000 who person sought assistance “have declined assistance erstwhile offered, opting either to stay successful state oregon publication much convenient commercialized formation options.”

“At this time, seats disposable connected the department’s charter options are importantly greater than the request from Americans successful the region,” it said, adding that those charter flights “continue to run with little than 40% occupancy connected average.”

Iranians fleeing cities nether onslaught question refuge successful the countryside

Terrified by explosions shaking their homes successful Tehran and different cities, tens of thousands of Iranians person sought refuge successful small, distant towns to hold retired the monolithic bombardment by Israel and the United States.

Pouya Akhgari, 22, is holed up successful a household location with aunts and cousins successful a colony successful the mountainous countryside 200 kilometers (120 miles) from his location successful the capital. Meanwhile his friends successful Tehran archer him astir the blasts each astir them.

“It conscionable feels truthful chaotic. I thought it’d beryllium precise abbreviated but it’s dragging on,” helium told The Associated Press by a messaging app. ”If it goes connected similar this, we’ll tally retired of money.”

The U.N. exile bureau said that successful the archetypal 2 days of the war, astir 100,000 radical fled Tehran, a metropolis of astir 9.7 million. It said that the standard of displacement is apt overmuch higher.

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Just the archetypal 2 days of Iran warfare outgo the US $5 cardinal successful munitions alone

An estimation the Pentagon sent to Congress does not look to see different war-related expenses too munitions, according to a idiosyncratic who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon the backstage briefing.

The tally is higher than erstwhile estimates by extracurricular analysts, and the regular magnitude is expected to fluctuate. The warfare is presently successful its 11th day.

The Trump medication has said it whitethorn question supplemental warfare funds from Congress, but respective lawmakers person insisted they would garbage to o.k. immoderate much wealth for the Pentagon.

The yearly Defense measure sent immoderate $838 cardinal to the Pentagon earlier this twelvemonth and the Defense Department was provided $150 cardinal successful other funds past twelvemonth arsenic portion of Trump’s large taxation breaks measure that became law.

—By Lisa Mascaro.

War with Iran delivers different daze to the planetary economy

The warfare with Iran is inflicting collateral harm — driving up vigor and fertilizer prices; threatening nutrient shortages successful mediocre countries; destabilizing fragile states specified arsenic Pakistan; and complicating options for the ostentation fighters astatine cardinal banks similar the Federal Reserve.

Causing overmuch of the pain: the Strait of Hormuz — done which a 5th of the world’s lipid passes — was efficaciously unopen down aft the U.S. and Israel launched rocket strikes Feb. 28 that killed Iranian person Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“For a agelong time, the nightmare script that deterred the U.S. from adjacent reasoning astir an onslaught connected Iran and which got them to impulse restraint connected Israel was that the Iranians would adjacent the Strait of Hormuz,” said Maurice Obstfeld, a elder chap astatine the Peterson Institute for International Economics and erstwhile main economist astatine the International Monetary Fund. “Now we’re successful the nightmare scenario.”

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More radical reason than enactment the US subject action, polls show

Americans are divided on enactment lines connected U.S. subject enactment against Iran, according to polls conducted since the warfare began, with astir polls showing absorption is higher than support.

About fractional of registered voters — 53% — reason U.S. subject enactment against Iran, according to a Quinnipiac Poll conducted implicit the weekend. Only 4 successful 10 enactment it, and astir 1 successful 10 are uncertain.

That’s akin to the results of substance connection drawback polls from The Washington Post and CNN, some conducted soon aft the associated U.S.-Israel attacks began, which besides indicated that much Americans rejected the subject enactment than embraced it.

A caller Fox News canvass recovered opinions much evenly divided.

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