The Iran War Report

Iran struck Dubai International Airport and the port of Fujairah overnight, killing at least one person in Abu Dhabi. Fujairah is the world's backup oil export route when the Strait of Hormuz goes dark — and it's now on fire. Qatar's Foreign Ministry publicly accused Iran of targeting residential areas, while Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed the U.S. is still letting Iranian oil tankers pass t...

Benjamin Netanyahu posted a video from a coffee shop proving he's alive after Iran's Tasnim News Agency sparked a viral death hoax that spread across X, Facebook, and TikTok reaching millions. The disinformation campaign traced back to IRGC-affiliated media, amplified by fake accounts and a secondhand claim from ex-U.S. intelligence officer Scott Ritter relayed through Russian outlets. This is Day...

Thirteen courageous Americans are dead. They came from Iowa farms and Nebraska suburbs, from Kentucky small towns and Minnesota neighborhoods. Today we set aside the battlefield updates. This episode belongs to the thirteen. Six Army Reservists from the 103rd Sustainment Command killed in a single drone strike in Kuwait. A 26-year-old Eagle Scout who died a week later from wounds in Saudi Arabia....

Israel struck Tehran during al-Quds Day — tens of thousands in the streets, one woman killed by shrapnel. Pete Hegseth confirmed on camera that Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been injured. Iran is repatriating 84 sailors killed when the warship IRIS Dena was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka on March 4th. Today's briefing covers what happened, what it means, and what people a...

Iran lit two oil tankers on fire off the Iraqi coast, and the IEA is calling it the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Six total vessels were attacked in a single 24-hour period, with Iranian drone boats and sea mines both implicated. Ships are now falsely identifying themselves as Chinese in the Strait of Hormuz to avoid Iranian targeting. Today's briefing covers w...

Three cargo ships were struck by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz today, halting commercial traffic through the chokepoint that moves 20% of the world's oil. Iran launched drone strikes targeting Dubai's airport and oil facilities — the first confirmed Iranian attack on UAE soil since the conflict began. The US Navy destroyed 16 Iranian naval vessels total after attacking mine-laying bo...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 10, 2026. Today is Day 11 of Operation Epic Fury. Day 11. Let that sink in. Eleven days ago — February 28th — the United States and Israel launched simultaneous, coordinated strikes on Iran. And as of this morning, the war is still expanding, not contracting. Here's the battlefield picture as of the last 24... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PA...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 09, 2026. Day ten of Operation Epic Fury. Here's the ground truth as of March 9th, 2026. The single biggest development overnight: Iran has a new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba Khamenei — the son of the late Ali Khamenei — has been formally named to succeed his father. The Council of Experts made it official in... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 08, 2026. Day nine of Operation Epic Fury. March 8, 2026. And the war is spreading. Start with the headline. The Pentagon confirmed this afternoon that a seventh U.S. soldier has been killed in action. That's seven American service members dead in nine days. The Pentagon has not released the name, branch,... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 7, 2026. Alright. March 7th, 2026. Day twenty-two of Operation Epic Fury. Here's the ground truth. Start with the threat. Late Friday night, an account linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — verified by SITE Intelligence Group — posted a $5 million bounty on Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART TWO...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 05, 2026. Okay. Twenty-four hours. Here's the tape. The Missile Incident. At approximately 0340 local time — that's 11:40 PM Tuesday night Eastern — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, the IRGCN, launched what US Central Command is calling a medium-range ballistic missile from a mobile launcher... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 4, 2026. Alright. Here's what we know happened in the last twenty-four hours. Lock these numbers in. The Missile Strike Overnight, Iranian forces launched a salvo of fourteen ballistic missiles. The targeting: U.S. and coalition forward operating positions in the broader theater. U.S. CENTCOM confirmed... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART TW...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 3, 2026. Alright. Here's the tape from the last 24 hours. Let's start with the headline that broke around 0200 Eastern. Iranian state broadcaster IRIB ran a segment — primetime, not buried — naming U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Marcus Teller as a, quote, "commander of aggression against the Islamic... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART TWO...

Daily OSINT briefing for March 2, 2026. Alright. Last twenty-four hours. A lot moved. Start with the missile strike. Overnight — early hours of March 2nd, Baghdad time — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force fired a volley of fourteen ballistic missiles. The targets were US military positions in Iraq, specifically... PART ONE — What Happened: facts from the last 24 hours PART TW...

Three American soldiers killed in Kuwait. Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei confirmed dead. Former president Ahmadinejad reportedly killed. A school strike in Minab killed 108 children. Iran claims the Strait of Hormuz is shut. Congress wasn't consulted. Polymarket hit $529M in volume. PART ONE — WHAT HAPPENED: Operation Epic Fury day two. 1,000+ targets struck. Decapitation campaign details. 3 US KI...

The US spent $2 trillion, lost 4,500 soldiers, and took 8 years to fight a country one-quarter the size of Iran with one-third the population. Iran is bigger, stronger, more unified, and has been preparing for 40 years. This episode covers: - Size: Iran is 4x larger than Iraq, with 3.5x the population - Terrain: mountain fortresses vs. flat desert - 3,000+ ballistic missiles — largest arsenal in t...

Iran doesn't need to beat America in a straight fight. It needs to make the war so expensive across so many countries that America decides it's not worth it. That's the strategy. And they spent 40 years building the infrastructure. This episode covers: - Hezbollah: 100,000+ rockets, fought Israel to a stalemate - Houthis: shutting down Red Sea shipping with $10K drones vs $4M interceptors - Iraqi...

Eight months ago, Israel launched 200+ fighter jets against Iran. Iran fired back 550 ballistic missiles and 1,000 suicide drones. A ceasefire paused it. Then both sides spent 8 months rearming. Operation Epic Fury is round two. This episode covers: - Israel's Operation Roaring Lion: 330+ munitions on 100 targets - Iran's 550-missile response and what it proved - The US bombing of 3 Iranian nuclea...

On January 3, 2020, the United States killed the second most powerful man in Iran with a drone strike at Baghdad Airport. Iran fired back with ballistic missiles that gave over 100 American soldiers brain injuries. A line was crossed that can never be uncrossed. This episode covers: - Who Soleimani was and why he mattered - The Quds Force and Iran's proxy network he built - Iran's ballistic missil...

The United States helped Iran start its nuclear program. Then spent twenty years trying to stop it. Then negotiated a deal that was working. Then pulled out. And now we're bombing the facilities we helped build. This episode covers: - Atoms for Peace: how the US gave Iran nuclear technology - The secret facilities revealed in 2002 - Stuxnet: the first cyber weapon used against physical infrastruct...

Between 1980 and 1988, up to one million Iranians were killed in a war where the United States provided intelligence, weapons, and diplomatic cover to the country gassing them with chemical weapons. This episode covers: - Saddam Hussein's invasion with tacit US support - Chemical weapons attacks the US knew about and covered for - The birth of the IRGC and asymmetric warfare doctrine - Why Iran bu...

52 Americans held hostage for 444 days. A failed rescue mission that killed 8 soldiers in the desert. And a revolution that turned America's closest Middle East ally into its greatest enemy overnight. This episode covers: - The fall of the Shah and rise of Ayatollah Khomeini - The 444-day hostage crisis and its impact on American politics - Operation Eagle Claw: the failed rescue at Desert One - H...

In 1953, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister and installed a dictator who tortured dissidents for 25 years. That single act created 70 years of blowback that leads directly to Operation Epic Fury. This episode covers: - Operation TPAJAX: how the CIA and MI6 orchestrated the coup - The Shah's secret police (SAVAK) and 25 years of repression - Why every Iranian leader sinc...