Epstein Epic Furry stumbles report

• PMU-affiliated Iraqi channels are saying the American KC-135 refueling aircraft was shot down by Iraqi resistance forces, despite CENTCOM claiming it was an innocent accident.  All six crew members dead. 
• The Iran War is not only turning Israel into a "regional superpower," but into a "global superpower" - Benjamin Netanyahu.
• 'While starting a war is easy, it CANNOT be won with a few TWEETS' — Iranian top security official Larijani on Trump looking for 'speedy victory'.
• 'Pedophile Trump BRAGGED about it' — Greta Thunberg calls for GLOBAL support for Cuba against US blockade. 'It's time for THE WORLD to stand up for Cuba'.
• According to Reuters, a drone attack killed one and injured 5 French soldiers at a peshmerga-France military base in Erbil, northern Iraq. The attack likely came from Iraqi resistance groups.
• 'Pete Hegseth spent $6.9 million on lobster tail — a FRACTION of the $93 billion he burned in a single month, and Trump kicked MILLIONS off SNAP [food stamps] so families can't eat'. 
• Moscow is providing Tehran with satellite images and drone targeting tactics to enhance the effectiveness of attacks on American forces and allies in the region. Intelligence sources believe that such support demonstrates the deepening of cooperation between US adversaries, as well as increasing coordination in the face of an expanding war around Iran. (US & NATO have been doing the same for Ukraine and Israel but no one across the west ever complains about that.)
• Donald Trump on the fact that a US Tomahawk missile bombed the Minab elementary school in Iran killing at least 175 school children/adults: “I’m willing to live with that.” 

• An Iranian mother whose two children were killed in the school strike in Minab described the aftermath, saying “I saw mothers clawing at the ground… fathers didn’t know what to do.” She said her son Sobhan was “very kind, with eyes always ready to cry,” and that after learning of his death “it felt like everything collapsed over my head.”
• Fire reported aboard USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, officials say it is non-combat-related. Two sailors injured. Another internal sabotage? Many believe so.
• Trump stated that oil prices will drop more than "expected". 
• Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Western ruling class: “They're used to filling their bellies for centuries with human flesh, and their pockets with money, they need to realize that the Vampire's ball is ending.”
• Hezbollah fired 100 missiles at Israel, whilst "Paper Dome" struggles to intercept the incoming missiles.
• A US drone attack targeted a tourist site in Iran’s Qeshm Island & killed 4 civilians.
• Fars News has confirmed that the mother of Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, wife of martyred Imam Ali Khamenei, is alive.
• This war is currently costing the US at least $2 billion a day. There are no achievable war objectives. The objectives change from day to day.

• The Israel Defense Force’s Military Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Itai Ofir, has ordered the cancellation of an indictment filed against five reserve soldiers who were accused of severely abusing - physically, mentally, and sexually - a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman Detention Facility, who was hospitalized with severe injuries, including a torn rectum, broken ribs, and a punctured lung in July 2024.
• New Iranian Supreme leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei ordered free medical care for the wounded & state-funded compensation for private property damage, requiring officials to report directly to him on their progress.
• Nineteen injured U.S. soldiers were airlifted yesterday from Saudi Arabia to Germany.
• CBS News on ship tracking data: The war with America and Israel hasn't stopped Iran from exporting oil. Iran exported more than 1 million barrels per day during the first 9 days of March.
• Bloomberg: Work on Meta’s massive cable project in the Gulf has halted due to the Iranian war.
• Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom – Yoav Limor: “Hezbollah will not be militarily wiped out, just as Hamas was not militarily wiped out, and Iran will not be militarily wiped out. Whoever claims otherwise is a liar or a charlatan.” Hebrew Channel 12: “The attack carried out by Hezbollah yesterday has shaken things up inside Israel.”  
• U.S. Embassy in Iraq: “Our citizens face a kidnapping risk in Iraq, and we urge them to avoid areas that could make them a target.”
• Advisor to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander: We have advanced generations of missiles that have not yet been used.
• Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: Israel is bombing Iranian historical monuments dating as far back as the 14th century. Multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites have been struck. It's natural that a regime that won't last a century hates nations with ancient pasts. But where's UNESCO? Its silence is unacceptable.
• The criminal Netanyahu: Our message to the Iranian people… we stand with you, but the matter is up to you. We have created an unprecedented alliance with the United States, and I speak with Trump every day. Trump once told me that the relationship between us is a hundred times stronger than it was with any other U.S. president and prime minister. Trump and I speak almost daily, freely, “as if we were sitting at a bar.”
• Daily Mail report says ongoing Iranian missile and drone attacks on the UAE have shaken Dubai’s reputation as a safe, tax-free hub, prompting some expats to consider leaving. One resident said, “Everybody knows that Dubai is finished."

• US Navy or an intl coalition will start escorting ships through Strait of Hormuz 'as soon as militarily possible' — Trump’s Treasury Sec. Bessent. [He doesn't look so confident.] 
• Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was hit by missiles from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ naval forces, putting it out of operational range, and it is now retreating toward the U.S.
• Financial Times, citing informed sources: The Trump administration has used up a stockpile of critical munitions that would have lasted for years since the start of the war with Iran. And of course, the money for these munitions comes from taxes imposed on the American people. Imagine being an American citizen, working 12 hours a day, only for your government to take your taxes and later send them as bombs and weapons to Israel to kill innocent people in the Middle East. 

• Trump single-handedly united all kinds of Iranians, even those you wouldn’t have thought to see in Quds Day marches. An Iranian woman holding a placard in Tehran: “I am too a protester, but child killers & human flesh eaters do not bring democracy to my country. I sacrifice my life for Iran.”  

• Iranian President Masoud Pezhskian (a doctor by profession) participates in the International Quds Day events in the Iranian capital, Tehran.