An Iranian attack on a military base in #SaudiArabia wounded at least 15 #US service members, including 5 who were seriously wounded in the attack….

#Iran fired 6 ballistic missiles & 29 drones at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base in a Friday attack that wounded at least 15 troops, including 5 seriously…. US officials initially reported that at least 10 US troops were injured, including 2 seriously wounded.

#IranWar #TrumpsWar #war #Trump #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #MiddleEast

"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'

Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/13

(continued from /11)

"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/12

"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...

On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026

"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.

Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/13

(continued from /11)

"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/12

"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...

On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026

"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'

Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.

'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-grifters-war

"According to a major NBC exclusive, Trump is apparently not being fully briefed on the war. Instead, his team is compiling short highlight reels. Two-minute clips that show successful strikes, explosions, and what they frame as wins. None of the devastation. None of the losses. That is what he is watching. That is how he is being 'informed.'”

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/18

https://www9

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-afternoon-news-updates-498

"Overall... the information #Trump gets about the #war tends to emphasize #US successes, with comparatively little detail about #Iranian actions.

One example came this month when five US #AirForce refueling planes were hit in an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in #SaudiArabia... Trump wasn’t briefed about the strikes, and he learned what had happened from #media reports...

Trump reacted angrily... calling coverage of the strike misleading"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912

#Iran #News #USA

"Israel is not signed onto the plan. ...

Most of what the plan asks on nuclear questions is what Iran had already agreed to before the US attacked it."

#Trump #Iran #Israel #SaudiArabia #war #NuclearWeapons
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"According to a major NBC exclusive, Trump is apparently not being fully briefed on the war. Instead, his team is compiling short highlight reels. Two-minute clips that show successful strikes, explosions, and what they frame as wins. None of the devastation. None of the losses. That is what he is watching. That is how he is being 'informed.'”

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/18

https://www9

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-afternoon-news-updates-498

"The most revealing thing about the current Iran conflict is not happening on the battlefield. It is happening inside Donald Trump’s own political orbit, where competing incentives — financial, apocalyptic, and political — are colliding in ways that are becoming harder to contain."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/16

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/inside-trumps-iran-meltdown-saudi

"Iran, meanwhile, mocked the 15-point framework plan for peace that Donald Trump has claimed is being discussed, with an Iranian military spokesperson saying on Wednesday that the Americans were negotiating only with themselves."

~ Clea Skopeliti

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/18

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east

"Iran, meanwhile, mocked the 15-point framework plan for peace that Donald Trump has claimed is being discussed, with an Iranian military spokesperson saying on Wednesday that the Americans were negotiating only with themselves."

~ Clea Skopeliti

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/18

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east

"On one side, there is a constellation of voices and interests pushing for escalation or, at the very least, continuation. On the other, there is the blunt reality of rising oil prices, economic anxiety, and slipping approval numbers that are beginning to impose their own limits. What is emerging is not a coherent strategy so much as a pressure system with no obvious release valve."

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
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