Trump appears committed to “regime change brought about by air power alone.” After urging Iran’s forces to “Lay down your weapons” and citizens to “Take over your government,” he promised: “When we are finished… it will be yours to take.” Rachman questions what actually follows.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Gideon Rachman, the FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator, argues that Trump has no credible endgame in Iran and “has not understood the lessons of past wars for regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
While the public may have learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump has not.
🛳️🇮🇷 Three oil tankers attacked by Iran today: Skylight, Mkd Vyom, and Hercules Star.
There are no photos or videos of the Mkd Vyom + Hercules Star; only one crew member is known to have died.
❗️📛 Potential “ultimatum to Putin” would likely not take form of a political statement, but rather a package: a clear ceasefire deadline, a demand for genuine negotiations with verification mechanisms, humanitarian steps, and security guarantees…
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Political scientist Pastukhov believes that Putin will appeal to the events in Tehran to convince the audience: "it could have been us."
Medvedev has already accused the US of fictitious diplomacy, trying to advance the thesis about the "senselessness" of the agreements with Washington.
❗️🤯 The Kremlin has invented a new justification for war against Ukraine through Iran, - Politico
Moscow may use the events surrounding Iran as an argument to justify aggression against Ukraine.
The Kremlin will try to present the situation as evidence of the "unpredictability" of the West.
🇺🇸❗️🇮🇷 Trump initiated a massive air campaign against Iran after intense lobbying from 🇮🇱Israel and 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia.
WP reports that the decision followed weeks of private discussions with regional allies.
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🇪🇺🇮🇷 The EU is no longer critically dependent on Iranian oil. Since 2022, its main suppliers have been Norway, the US, and Kazakhstan.
Even if physical shortages are offset by strategic reserves and increased output, the risk premium would remain.
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He said Iran’s retaliation was expected but “less than we thought,” adding: “We thought it’d be double.”
Roughly 40 Iranian officials were reportedly killed. No U.S. casualties.
Trump said he is open to working with Congress and declined to say whether he considers conflict a “war”
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump told CBS News a diplomatic solution with Iran is still possible, and “much easier now than it was a day ago” after strikes that he says killed Khamenei.
“Because they are getting beat up badly,” Trump said, calling the operation “a great day for this country, a great day for the world.”
🇮🇷🇺🇸 After the elimination of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, even more radical Islamists could seize power in the country, - CIA.
Meanwhile, Iran's National Security Council Secretary writes that Iran will strike the US and Israel today "with a force they have never felt before."
✈️❗️ Video from Dubai airport after drone attack
28.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 159 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 2In a stress scenario with oil at $140–150 per barrel, prices could reach €2.20–2.50 per liter in Germany, Austria, or Italy. Diesel may respond even faster due to logistical demand. This implies a 25–40% increase within a matter of weeks.
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🇪🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱 Europe after February 28: Iran–Israel War and Risk of a New Oil Shock
As of Feb 2026, the average gasoline price in EU countries ranges between €1.60 and €1.80 per liter. If Brent rises to $120, prices at the pump could increase to €2.00–2.20.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Trump on Iran: It will take them several years to recover from this attack.
I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in 2-3 days and tell the Iranians: "See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding."
❗️High-rise building full on fire in Bahrain.
👀🇺🇦 We have something to put pressure on the Russians in the negotiations. There are still a few arguments left, — Budanov.
🙏 He said prisoner exchange will take place in the coming days.
🇮🇷❗️Iran is targeting areas near the Burj Khalifa
28.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 178 🔁 40 💬 7 📌 4✈️🇰🇼 Kuwait International Airport following an Iranian drone strike.
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🇮🇷🇧🇭🇺🇸 Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in Bahrain.
🇹🇷 Turkiye does not support an attack on Iran and does not allow the use of its airspace and territory in the conflict, says the Erdogan administration.
🇫🇷 France demands urgent convening of UN Security Council over situation in Iran — Macron
❗️ Macron says current escalation is dangerous for everyone and "must stop."
👀 Macron says the start of war between US, Israel and Iran "would have severe consequences for peace and international security."
- in a Kazan college, students were invited to a meeting without explanation, where the director Yulia Khadiullina announced to them that they were "all expelled" and would be sent to fight with Ukraine.
👮 Representatives of law enforcement agencies were present at the conversation at the college.
❗️❗️❗️In Russia, a hidden mobilization of 17 (18)-year-olds is underway, - conversation between the school's management and students
💬 "A new army will be created from those students who can no longer be considered students. I am not sorry that you were expelled. The country needs soldiers,"
🇺🇦❌🇮🇷 Exactly one year ago Khamenei addressed us in Ukrainian. The irony of fate…
28.02.2026 10:15 — 👍 172 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 0In a letter obtained by POLITICO, Rüdiger Lucassen, the AfD's defense spokesperson, asked the government on Feb. 19 to brief the defense committee in the country's parliament on the lessons learned from the drill.
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🇩🇪 AfD party has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defenses, - POLITICO
AfD has developed an interest in "Hedgehog 2025" exercise in which Ukrainian drone specialists used tactics to "destroy" NATO units in a war game.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: We may have casualties — that happens often in war — but we are doing this for the future.
To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, armed forces, police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or, in the alternative, face certain death.
🇮🇱 IDF is calling up reserve forces to reinforce security along the borders with Lebanon and in the West Bank.
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💥 Seven missiles hit an area near the presidential palace and Supreme Leader Khamenei’s compound, — Tasnim.
🇺🇸 CNN: Strikes are focused on military targets in Iran.
🇺🇸🇮🇷👀 Donald Trump said he's not concerned about a possible rise in oil prices in the event of military action against Iran.
"I'm not concerned. No, no. I'm concerned about human lives. I'm concerned about the long-term well-being of this country. That's what concerns me."
🇺🇦 Zelensky: I’m not playing games with Putin. I’m ready to meet and I’m ready to speak.
But not in Russia and not Belarus, because they are allies during this war. Belarus is a passive aggressor. They attacked us from the territory of Belarus.
