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NEW: U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for the strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children but have not yet reached a final conclusion, two U.S. officials tell Reuters
In calls this week to Kurdish minority leaders in Iran and Iraq, Trump offered “extensive U.S. aircover” and other backing for anti-regime Iranian Kurds to take over portions of western Iran:
Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump $50 billion more for war with Iran, reports @politico. “I don’t rule anything out,” said Sen. Elissa Slotkin. “I mean, we’re in it.”
Talking about the latest developments on Iran on MS NOW in a few minutes
Huckabee jokes about procreating to embassy staff sheltering in place www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Scoop: U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joked to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday in a memo one U.S. official described as “awkward” and “odd.”
SCOOP: A suspected Iranian drone attack hit the CIA’s station in Saudi Arabia in what would amount to a significant symbolic victory for the Islamic Republic as it lashes out at U.S. targets and personnel across the Middle East, sources tell Ellen Nakashima and me
NEW: Multi-drone attack collapsed roof at US embassy in Saudi Arabia and contaminated the inside with smoke, per State Dept. alert obtained by The Post. US personnel “continue to shelter in place" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
US aircraft leave Spain after government says bases cannot be used for Iran attacks
"European natural gas prices surged almost 50 percent on Monday as the war in Iran strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz,"
Despite Trump's remarks, Trump admin is making clear that bombing, not talking, is the priority: "President Trump said new potential leadership in Iran has indicated they want to talk & eventually he will talk. For now, Operation Epic Fury continues unabated" WH officl tells me
Netanyahu says Trump fulfilled his dreams: In bombing Iran, Israel now has the "assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years"
NEW: Behind the scenes, a lobbying alliance of Saudi Arabia's MBS and Israel's Netanyahu urged Trump to level a major strike against Iran in the days before the president's decision (even as as Riyadh publicly advocated for diplomacy) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
NEW: Trump announces an indefinite U.S. bombing campaign in the Middle East for "as long as necessary"
"The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective"
NEW: Trump confirms Iran’s supreme leader is dead
“Persons may wish to consider leaving Israel while commercial flights are available.” — US State Department
Judge says government may not search devices seized from Washington Post reporter, via Perry Stein www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
New ruling on the FBI's seizure of the devices of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: "The Court rejects the government’s argument that its seizure of Ms. Natanson’s devices does not implicate the First Amendment..."
The U.S. military has rapidly increased its presence near Iran, shifting more than 150 aircraft to bases in Europe and the Middle East since a second round of nuclear talks ended without a breakthrough www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
My latest:
"Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza" www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...
YMCA blares as world leaders scramble to get a word in with Trump at his new Trump-branded peace building
Trump hails his role in swinging elections in Hungary, Japan, Argentina to the conservative candidate: "The endorsement seems to be working in foreign countries" (doesn't mention Canada, where he inadvertently swung things left)
Rubio boosts Hungary’s Orban as he faces toughest election in years www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Traveling U.S. press poised to ask questions ahead of Rubio's joint press conference in Slovakia with Prime Minister Robert Fico
NEW: Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage, a former Google employee alleges
At tonight’s Alfalfa Club dinner, Trump said he called Putin today and said it’s cold so please stop bombing Ukraine for a week, said a person in the room. On Iran he made an edgy remark (joke?) about his upcoming second strike on Iran
Advocates for Maria Corina Machado, who saw Trump’s ouster of Maduro as a watershed moment for self-governance, are worried that Washington now prefers reliability over democracy www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
