Over the course of 48 hours, the strategic architecture of the Middle East shifted with a speed few could have anticipated. A coordinated Israeli-American operation, prepared in secrecy and executed with surgical exactitude, began by striking key command nodes of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including senior leadership figures, nuclear enrichment infrastructure and long-range missile facilities — and culminated in eliminating Iran’s Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A justice minister has put pressure on Shabana Mahmood to ban a march linked to the Iranian regime set to take place on Sunday in London.
Sarah Sackman, the courts minister, said the Al Quds march has “no place in British society and the authorities and the police should take the enforcement action needed against these marches”. She branded the rally, which is held in London each year during Ramadan and named after the Arabic name for Jerusalem, a “hate march”.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth flatly denied that U.S. forces targeted civilians after a missile strike destroyed a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Trump said the information he reviewed suggested Iran may have caused the explosion itself, while Hegseth repeated that U.S. forces don’t deliberately attack civilians and confirmed the Pentagon is reviewing the incident.
That didn’t stop Western media outlets from rushing to repeat Tehran’s accusations.
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The Nail In The Coffin For Iran
Now it’s confirmed, based on the direction of attack, there is a 0% chance the USA fired a Tomahawk Cruise Missile at the “school” that the IRGC claims killed 165 people.
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Even using Bellingcat’s research, this stands up. According to… pic.twitter.com/nRsfjYY1nT— Matt Tardio (@angertab) March 10, 2026
It is progress that the Prime Minister’s Office is now letting Canadians know when Mark Carney speaks with President Donald Trump, but it would be much better if the read-out that followed didn’t subtract from the sum of human knowledge.
The PMO said the two leaders held a conversation on Sunday about the economy, developments in the Middle East and trade relations.
What wasn’t clear was who called whom and what, if anything, was achieved.
Mojtaba Khamenei has been named Iran’s new supreme leader and successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Iran.
Some pro-establishment crowds have taken to the streets to celebrate the appointment of a hardliner close to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
But other Iranians have told the BBC that they believe it will not bring about change.
Donald Trump has urged Australia to avoid ‘a terrible humanitarian mistake’ by potentially allowing the Iranian women’s soccer team to return to their home country.
Trump’s comments come amid uncertainty over the players’ future after they were branded ‘traitors’ by Iranian media for refusing to sing the national anthem before a game against South Korea at the Asian Cup last week, which is being hosted in Australia.
Then, one of the Iranian players could be seen performing the international SOS distress signal from inside the team bus after a lost game on Sunday that ended their involvement in the tournament. According to reports, she tucked her thumb into her palm and folded her fingers down over it – the recognized sign that someone is pleading for help.
Update: Five Iranian footballers ‘in Australian safe house’ after Asian Cup protest
Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete” after an hour-long phone call with Vladimir Putin.
The US president said his country’s joint operation with Israel had left Iran with “no navy, no communications … no air force”.
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” he told CBS News, adding that the US was “very far” ahead of schedule.
His comments came after a lengthy call with Putin, who presented Mr Trump with several proposals to end the war quickly, according to the Kremlin.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces that the Iran war will be over “very soon,” calling it a “short-term excursion.”
POTUS says the new Ayatollah just needs to “cry uncle” as U.S. strikes intensify.pic.twitter.com/jC1moojPwq
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) March 10, 2026
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada should support replacing Iran’s current government and called for the removal of individuals linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from the country.
Speaking at a press conference Monday, Poilievre described Iran’s leadership as a “terrorist regime” and said Conservatives support efforts that would lead to a democratically elected government in the country.
Pete Hegseth said US strikes on Iran are “only just the beginning”, as he promised to deliver Donald Trump’s demand for the regime’s unconditional surrender.
The US defence secretary said the US was “willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful”, and refused to rule out putting boots on the ground inside the Islamic Republic.
Speaking to CBS News, he said: “This is war. This is conflict. This is bringing your enemy to their knees.”
🚨 JUST IN: Footage released of a UAE Air Force F-16E targeting an Iranian attack drone
Iran is CONTINUING to attack its neighbors — horrible move on their part!pic.twitter.com/nOss2FLGkY
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 9, 2026
Israel 🇮🇱 and U.S. 🇺🇸 precision strikes have practically wiped out Iran's naval fleet. A beautiful destructive poetry. 💥 pic.twitter.com/5XXPNXgdCE
— HJB News (@HJB_News__) March 9, 2026
B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers reportedly landed at RAF Fairford in the UK on Monday.
Iran’s Islamic regime really needs to surrender immediately.
This won’t go well for them otherwise.pic.twitter.com/cvf7qyTGJP
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 9, 2026
h/t patthedog
Prime Minister Mark Carney declared his support for the deadly American-Israeli attack on Iran shortly after it began on Feb. 28, which has drawn a significant amount of pushback from Liberal MPs. Some caucus members say he should have consulted caucus before endorsing such a consequential move, and add they hope to receive a clear explanation at this week’s caucus meeting about why Canada took this position in the first place.
“I don’t know why he jumped into this to support him [United States President Donald Trump] for no reason without speaking to caucus,” said one Liberal MP who spoke on a not-for-attribution basis to offer their candid views.
Who could forget the Washington Post‘s foolish unforced error in 2019 when its obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of ISIS, called him an “austere religious scholar“?
Apparently, the editors at the Washington Post forgot, because they printed an obituary for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that makes its praise for al-Baghdadi look restrained.
The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.
The alert, reviewed by ABC News, cites “preliminary signals analysis” of a transmission “likely of Iranian origin” that was relayed across multiple countries shortly after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28.
Even before US and Israeli missiles began raining down, those sensing the winds of change were forecasting a Berlin Wall moment for Iran.
Mass nationwide demonstrations in January – although savagely repressed, causing the deaths of an estimated tens of thousands – were seen as portents of a reckoning for the country’s ruling theocrats, just as the popular breaching of Berlin’s fearful symbol of Europe’s cold war division spelled the downfall of East Germany’s communist regime in 1989.
Now the sudden death of Iran’s most powerful figure, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – killed, with his wife, in an Israeli missile strike on his supposedly secure compound in Tehran last Saturday – has further fuelled the belief that profound transformation is at hand.
TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney says it is possible Canada will be asked to help defend a NATO ally as the Middle East war continues to intensify, but that there are currently no requests for military aid from Ottawa from any of the impacted countries.
One week into the conflict that erupted when the United States and Israel launched a deadly barrage of airstrikes at Iran, Carney said the violence is still widening, with Tehran firing missiles and drone attacks at neighbouring Gulf states.
President Trump is considering sending troops to secure Iran’s enriched uranium after reports of US-Israeli strikes on one of the main sites that he said was obliterated last year.
Missile attacks caused “severe damage” to an irradiation sterilisation facility in Isfahan on Saturday, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported. The Iranian regime has not allowed any inspection at Isfahan, where most of the uranium was believed to be stored, nor at Fordow and Natanz, the main places for enrichment.
