EDITION.CNN.COM • 2026-03-18

US warship believed to be carrying additional Marines to Middle East tracked off Singap...

A US Navy warship believed to be carrying Marines and sailors to the Middle East is nearing the Malacca Strait off Singapore as it makes its way to the region.

OMANOBSERVER.OM • 2026-03-18

Americas friends must help extricate it from the war

The effects of this retaliation are felt most acutely on the southern side of the Gulf, where Arab countries that had placed their trust in American security co-operation now experience that co-operation as an acute vulnerability, threatening their present security and future prosperity.

PARSTODAY.IR • 2026-03-18

Funeral procession held for heroes of Dena Ship, Ali Larijani, and General Gholamreza Soleimani

A mourning ceremony was held for the bodies from the "Dena Ship," the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Basij Organization.  The funeral procession for 84 personnel from the Dena destroyer, Ali Larijani, the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and General Gholamreza Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Basij Organization, was held in Tehran's Enqelab Square.  With a massive presence  of the people.

PARSTODAY.IR • 2026-03-18

Missiles hit over 100 targets without difficulty in wave 61 of Operation True Promise 4

"Tel Aviv," the center of the criminal Zionist regime's malice, was bombarded in wave 61 of Operation True Promise 4 with Kheybar Shekan, Emad, Qadr (multi-warhead), and "Khorramshahr 4" (multi-warhead) missiles, under the code-name "Ya Aba Abdellah al-Hussein (AS)," in retaliation for the blood of Martyr Dr. Ali Larijani and his companions.

Quote"The irresolute emperor, instead of breaking through the toils of the enemy, expected his fate with patient resignation; and accepted the humiliating conditions of peace, which it was no longer in his power to refuse.

The five provinces beyond the Tigris... were restored to the Persian monarchy. He acquired, by a single article, the impregnable city of Nisibis; which had sustained, in three successive sieges, the effort of his arms...

The spirit of the Romans was subdued by the edge of famine rather than by the sword of the Barbarians."

TASNIMNEWS.IR • 2026-03-18

Foolish Trump Begging for Help in War: Iran’s Top Judge

Iran's Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei highlighted the defeat of the United States and Israeli regime in their military campaign against Iran, saying the silly president of the US is imploring other countries to deploy naval ships to Hormuz Strait.

TASNIMNEWS.IR • 2026-03-18

IRGC Warns People to Stay Away from Oil Facilities in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar

In a statement released on Wednesday, the IRGC warned the Saudi, Emirati and Qatari citizens and residents to keep clear of the following locations:

QuoteAmerica gains nothing from any of this.

QuoteWhat happens to capitalism when it can't deal with it with a crisis of its own making when the capitalist class lose control.  They pull levers and they don't work anymore, like hapless pilots in  the cockpit.  Suddenly the levers don't respond to their pulling and pushing.  Fascism is the go-to ideology and the go-to, practices which allow them to remain in power. The fascists have always been particularly useful to the ruling class. Every time the ruling class made a mess of it, and could not contain the crisis of its own making.

What you saw in Minneapolis, the murder of uh American citizens, what you saw with ICE, uh turning into the stormtroopers of Donald Trump from the day he moved into the White House for the second time.

That was happening while he was winning.  So imagine what was going to happen when he was losing.

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 17, 2026, 11:33 AMYanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon, which it likely will not , the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged.