NEW: The combined US-Israeli force has struck over 2,000 targets in Iran and achieved air superiority over Tehran. The combined force has continued to target Iranian internal security institutions responsible for maintaining stability and suppressing protests, including security forces along Iran’s northwestern borders with Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Ali Reza Arafi, who is a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and a newly appointed member of the Leadership Council, has long maintained a close relationship with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Arafi likely played a key role in consolidating Khamenei’s religious authority across Iran.The inconsistency of Iran’s retaliatory attacks on March 1 suggests that Iranian units may be struggling to coordinate large-scale attacks. Iran appeared to fire significantly less munitions at Israel on March 1 than on February 28, which suggests that US-Israeli efforts to degrade Iran’s retaliatory capabilities are succeeding.
ISW-CTP is monitoring early reports that Lebanese Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel. This attack would mark the first Hezbollah rocket attack into Israel since the November 2024 Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreement. Other members of Iran’s Axis of Resistance, specifically Iranian-backed Iraqi militias, have threatened to retaliate and conducted some attacks targeting Israel and US forces.
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Ukrainian suicide drone have been striking southern Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea all night.
Here’s a video of Russian air defence systems struggling with the drones
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