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220 US forces killed or wounded in Iranian retaliatory strikes in past 24 hours

Saturday, 07 March 2026


An Iranian Army spokesman says 220 American soldiers and commanders have been killed or wounded and significant damage has been inflicted on American assets in the region in retaliatory attacks by the Iranian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours.

The spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Zolfaghari, said on Saturday that 21 American service members were killed and a number of others injured during Iranian attacks on the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

He added that some 200 American personnel were also killed and wounded during strikes against the US military base in Al Dhafra Air Base.

The Armed Forces also targeted an oil tanker owned by the United States in the northern part of the Persian Gulf, he noted.


US confirms Iran destroyed $300m radar system in Jordan
The US confirmed that Iran has destroyed a key $300 million radar system used by US THAAD missile defense systems at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.

The US and Israel waged a fresh round of unlawful military aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country and its nuclear facilities.

The attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and hundreds of Iranian civilians, including women and children, as well as military commanders.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries.

Iranian officials have said that only US and Israeli assets and interests are being targeted and that the Islamic Republic has no enmity toward the host countries and respects their sovereignty.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/07/765077/220-US-forces-killed-or-wounded-in-Iranian-strikes-in-24-hours

Gjrich:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcR-r7WxoxA?si=1xRR8sTW8GD5IuXW




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYoWoEGrTHI



Exiled Iranian crown prince says he’s accepted ‘call’ to lead Iran after Khamenei’s death

Reza Pahlavi, exiled Iranian crown prince, says he has accepted the call to be the country’s next leader.

Pahlavi is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran and is widely regarded as the most prominent figure in the opposition to the Iranian government.

He has repeatedly called for protests against the Islamic Republic and advocated for the removal of the current regime from power, as well as closer relation with the Western world and Israel.

Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was killed on Saturday by US and Israeli strikes in Iran.

An assembly of experts have been tasked with appointing the next leader mandated by Iranian law.

In the meantime, a three-man transitional council comprising the president, head of the judiciary, and a member of the guardians’ council has been appointed to lead the country.

“For nearly five decades, this terrorist regime has sown chaos and bloodshed across our region,” Pahlavi said on Friday.

He spoke in a video statement posted on his X account.

According to the exiled prince, “the Iranian people have called on me to lead the transition after the regime is gone.”

“I have accepted that responsibility. Part of their great mandate to me is to return our nation and our foreign relations to normalcy. I will do exactly that,” he said.

“My commitment is to ensure the transition is orderly, the country is stabilized, and Iranians determine their future through the ballot box.

“Iranians have made their choice — at an enormous price. Now I ask our friends in the Arab world to join us. To prepare to recognize and engage our transitional government.”

The assembly of experts have yet to announce Khamenei’s successor. The Iranian supreme leader has the final say in the affairs of the country.
https://www.thecable.ng/exiled-iranian-crown-prince-says-hes-accepted-call-to-lead-iran-after-khameneis-death/

Newsgeek24:
https://verynigerian.com/tinubu-approves-salary-increase-for-military-personnel/

Fujiyama:
^^^
I agree with your first line about this not being a trivial matter - because it most certainly isn't.

Yes you are right in your comments about the origin and nature of the threat to sub-regional and regional stability by Jihadist terror groups. Indeed you are right that this conflict will not be resolved with a snap of the fingers. Again, you are right that an international war effort across the entire region is the only sure way to win this war.

But the truth is that Nigeria's commitment to this war has been inconsistent. I also followed the activities of the JNIM when it was first formed years ago. It was very uncomfortable to hear the military commanders of our neighbours in the JNIM complaining loudly to foreign press men - that Nigeria was the weak link in the war effort. These complaints persisted for years. I think it was during the last few years of Idris Deby that the complaints became open accusations that Nigeria was becoming a safe haven for BHT - the story was that BHT would launch attacks from Nigeria, raid our neighbours and then retreat safely into Nigeria - without any action from Nigerian security forces.

Now...am I going to base my assessment of the Nigerian security response solely on the comments of commanders from neighbouring countries - operating in a multinational task force? Certainly not. More on that later.



^^^
In a just, perfect world, there would be a well funded, well armed war international effort (as you pointed out earlier) to end Jihadi insurgency in the Sahel. But it isn't going to happen. At best, there'll be a few military 'advisers' from some of the great powers...and some military equipment to support the war effort. But that's it. The boots on the ground will have to come from West African countries.

Nobody is coming to save Nigeria. Nobody.

There are a lot (a whole lot!) of complex factors at play in the matter of Jihadi terrorism in West Africa. As you are no doubt aware, some of those you are calling upon to intervene in this Sahel problem once backed (or are still backing) these Jihadis in some shape or form. In the end, Nigeria must accept that she (and she alone) is ultimately responsible for her security. Nobody else. So...if her borders remain a porous sieve and her security men are still sleeping on the job or collecting bribes, she will pay a heavy price.



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You seem to hint the US and her friends should feel some remorse for being responsible for the scourge of global Jihadi terrorism today. Well...they don't care one bit. They are driven by national interest (as defined by their power elite) and national interest alone.

The US and her allies don't care if Nigeria has only a couple of Mark IV rifles in her entire armoury - to combat hundreds of thousands of well armed Jihadis. If it is in US national security interests that those rifles are all we should have, then that is what will happen - unless Nigeria says no and takes steps to defend herself. But as you say, the current state of weapons inventory is nothing to write home about. So...

For the US (and her friends), the key phrase is 'national interest'. It decides everything else. A real pity that Nigeria doesn't get it.



^^^
I will definitely look up the book you mentioned.

However, I don't agree with your position on the US not being a totally lost cause. It is.

Ayatollah Khomeini (just like Osama bin Laden who came years later) and others too many to count are all US creations. This is standard operating procedure for the US: create a problem that costs a lot (in blood and treasure) to other countries (usually far, far away), then pretend to solve the problem decades later.

I was also alive when Khomeini seized power in the late 70s. The USA's crude, ham fisted foreign policy hasn't changed much. How can anyone have faith in the USA after Iraq and Libya?

Back to what I said much earlier about Nigeria's inconsistency in the war effort. It is no secret that there have been numerous losses and operational failures over the past fifteen years that a normal army (and a normal country) would struggle to explain. Jonathan did nothing about keeping the books clean - and that's why his NSA (Dasuki) and Attahiru Bafarawa spent billions of Naira on 'prayers against insecurity. Buhari was no better. All of this had real, unmistakable effects on the battlefield - for example, several soldiers mutinied in May 2014 and attempted to eliminate their commanding officer - following an ambush by BHT that left several soldiers dead. Remember Metele? Baga?

Fast forward to BAT.

BAT said during his 2024 presidential media chat that he wasn't going to audit the military because 'it would be disrespectful'. That tells Nigerians all they need to know.

FreeStuffsNG:
US embassy offering bus service for citizens to Israel’s border with Egypt

“Additionally, the Department of State has completed over a dozen charter flights and has safely evacuated thousands of Americans from the Middle East.”

Iran-induced Japa-da tipa tipa.

They are using buses and lapping theirselves in molue buses to flee through Egypt!

Disgraced country and citizens fleeing after running kiti kiti and kata kata in Occupied Palestine under Iranian missiles. Smh.

turmacs:
I know some people will come here to say rubbish about AlJazeera. This is one of the few truthful and unbiased news outlet remaining in this world. Aljazeera has never been known to spread propaganda and false news. Unlike CNN that openly apologised to the world for spreading fake news about beheaded babies, only God knows what else they've been lying about.

I stopped watching CNN and all her affiliated stations when i watched this video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI?si=XdDVafRjvjR81ihl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIQalprvR8?si=ajfZjhjURW4Oxgg8

turmacs:
How Israel was created


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_spMxp6t8?si=w8JpjDmiGx-5uWei

Botragelad:
More photographs are emerging, showcasing the Russian Wagner group being thoroughly humiliated by these African fighters. If you assume that waging a guerrilla war is a straightforward task or that Russia is invincible, then take a look at this. They suffered a resounding defeat in Afghanistan, are currently being routed in Ukraine, and now this debacle in Africa. It's clear that the once-mighty 'Mother Russia' is now on its knees.

The lives of these Russian mercenaries, purportedly the epitome of military prowess, are being utterly destroyed by these fighters as we speak.

Botragelad:
BAMAKO, July 27- Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had lost two soldiers but killed some 20 rebels.

The rebel movement, the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP-PSD), said in a statement on Saturday that[b] it had seized armoured vehicles, trucks and tankers in the fighting at the border town of Tinzaouaten on Thursday and Friday.[/b]
The rebel group also said it damaged a helicopter, which crashed in the town of Kidal, hundreds of kilometres away.

The Malian army said in statements that two soldiers had been killed and 10 injured. One of its helicopters had crashed in Kidal on Friday while on a routine mission but no one was killed, it said.

Several Russian military bloggers reported on Sunday that at least 20 from the Wagner group were killed in an ambush near the Algerian border.

"Employees of the Wagner PMC (Group), who were moving in a convoy with government troops, were killed in Mali...Some were captured," said a prominent Russian military blogger Semyon Pegov, who uses the name War Gonzo.
The Baza Telegram news channel, which has links to Russia's security structures, reported that at least 20 Wagner fighters have been killed.
Reuters could not independently verify the bloggers' reports.

Wagner played a prominent role in some of the fiercest fighting of Russia's war in Ukraine, but its future was thrown into question when its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in August, two months after leading a brief mutiny against the Russian defence establishment.

Mali, where military authorities seized power in coups in 2020 and 2021, is battling a years-long Islamist insurgency. It has said Russian forces there are not Wagner mercenaries but trainers helping local troops with equipment bought from Russia.

Baza's report said on Sunday that Wagner fighters have been in Mali since at least 2021.
The Tuareg are an ethnic group who inhabit the Sahara region, including parts of northern Mali. Many of them feel marginalised by the Malian government.

The separatist group launched an insurgency against Mali's junta government in 2012 but the rebellion was later hijacked by Islamist groups.
It signed a peace agreement with Bamako in 2015, but CSP-PSD pulled out of the talks at the end of 2022.

Source;
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-rebels-say-they-killed-injured-dozens-soldiers-wagner-mercenaries-fighting-2024-07-27/

OLAADEGBU:
How Israel lured Ayatollah to his doom... then blew him up with a missile from space

Israeli generals lulled Iran into a false sense of security in the hours leading up to Ali Khamenei's assassination by leaving their headquarters for fake Shabbat celebrations before sneaking back in disguise, the IDF has revealed.

The new information explains how the Ayatollah felt safe enough to emerge from hiding for a meeting at his palace with top officials.

Israeli fighters then launched a barrage of 30 missiles, including state-of-the-art Blue Sparrows which travel to the edge of space before hitting their targets.

The aim of the operation was to take the Iranian despot by surprise, to ensure that he and other top officials had no time to react and escape.

But the entire operation was only made possible by the Israeli leadership's deception.

Concerned that a buildup of activity around the IDF's central military complex in Tel Aviv would indicate to Iran that a major operation was imminent, a plan of deception was executed.

The military said: 'On the Friday of the attack, the IDF deliberately gave the impression that the military was shutting down for the weekend.

'We released photos and information suggesting that IDF personnel and top leadership were going home for Shabbat dinner.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15616553/How-Israel-lured-Ayatollah-doom-fake-Jewish-Sabbath-dinner-trap-blew-missile-space.html?ito=social-facebook

Fujiyama:
^^^
No.

Not good enough.

You started off by making excuses for the current administration, because 'it is not even up to three years old'. But the party that produced this administration has been in power for over a decade. Ten years is enough to get a grip on security. More than enough actually. The administration (and the party that produced it) has done an abysmally poor job security wise - and that's all there is to it.

nans24:
Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has accused Al Jazeera of practising what he called ‘opposition-style journalism’ after his interview on “Head to Head” took him to task over his past comments against President Bola Tinubu.

On the programme hosted by Mehdi Hasan, which examined Tinubu’s administration under the theme “Nigeria: ‘Renewed Hope’ or ‘Hopelessness’?”, Bwala was confronted with past quotes, video clips, and statements from his time in the opposition – when he was aligned with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

The interview went viral, to which Bwala responded in a statement.

In the statement, Bwala stressed that he remained “prepared to appear before any interviewer, anywhere in the world, any day and at any time, to defend this government and its policies.”

He said ‘Head to Head’ contacted him requesting an interview to challenge Tinubu’s government on security, the economy, and corruption.

However, he noted, “Nowhere in our almost six months of communication did they mention that they were going to challenge my past. If that had been their plan, ethically and professionally, they were supposed to inform me so I could prepare my response.

“But that’s okay, ethically, that is on them, not on me. I refused to swallow the pill of Mehdi’s ‘opposition research-style journalism,’ and even today, if you carefully compare what he read as quotes from organisations and groups, you will see that many were inaccurate and some were outright fake news.

“But I will leave that for another day. As for what I said about President Tinubu in the past, I am glad those were things I said when I was in the opposition saddle with such zeal. It is all politics.

“Half of Donald Trump’s cabinet is made up of people who once spoke against him, and quite a number of people in our own cabinet also spoke against President Tinubu in the past. Those things do not bother him if you care to know.

“The majority of the naysayers are members of the opposition and their sympathisers. It does not bother me one bit.

“Their temporary excitement over the interview has not lasted and will not last, because it does not take away their obvious problem of lack of vision, mission in conducting and managing a political party; yet they seek to manage Nigeria.

“Clearly they have no path to victory and no alternative policies or program for the Nigerian people. And if they say they do, they can as well go to head to head and be interrogated on that; as the saying in Hausa goes ‘Ga fili Ga doki'”.
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/bwala-accuses-al-jazeera-of-opposition-style-journalism-over-past-anti-tinubu-comments/

Pakute:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/7/iran-war-live-trump-says-no-deal-with-iran-until-unconditional-surrender

nlfpmod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5VC08tNMw?si=t5WbMOo2aoa3KkfX



https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/7/irans-president-apologises-for-attacking-neighbouring-countries


Previous thread
https://www.nairaland.com/8631093/iran-apologized-surrendered-middle-east

Kaliningrad:
@Al Mayadeen English posted;

WizardOfNG:
Nigeria has launched an ambitious $750 million renewable electrification programme aimed at expanding electricity access through solar mini-grids and off-grid power systems, a move officials say could unlock over $1.1 billion in private investment and reshape the country’s energy landscape.


Nigeria has unveiled a $750 million renewable electrification initiative targeting 1,350 solar mini-grids nationwide, including 250 that will connect to the national grid.

The programme is expected to mobilise $1.1 billion in private-sector funding and improve access to power for underserved communities.

Large-scale solar projects under the Energising Education Programme are providing electricity to universities and teaching hospitals.

Government agencies and public institutions are also benefiting from the National Public Sector Solarisation Initiative, which reduces reliance on costly generators.

The initiative, being implemented by the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), is expected to deploy 1,350 solar mini-grids nationwide, including 250 interconnected systems that will feed power directly into Nigeria’s national grid.

Speaking in Abuja during a visit by a delegation from the National Judicial Institute, REA Managing Director Abba Aliyu described the programme as a landmark intervention in Nigeria’s decades-long struggle with electricity shortages.

“For the first time, we are witnessing the implementation of the biggest publicly funded renewable electricity project in the entire world. It is a $750 million project that will catalyse $1.1 billion in private sector funding to deploy 1,350 mini-grids across the country,” Aliyu said.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, continues to face persistent power supply challenges despite decades of reforms and investments in the electricity sector. Millions of households and businesses rely on diesel and petrol generators due to unreliable grid power, leading to high operating costs and environmental concerns.

Officials believe decentralised solar systems could provide a faster and cleaner solution for underserved communities, particularly in rural areas where extending the national grid is expensive and slow.

Aliyu said the mini-grid programme is designed to provide electricity to communities currently outside the grid while strengthening existing infrastructure by integrating some of the new solar installations directly into the national power network.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/us-uk-china-investors-on-alert-as-nigeria-rolls-out-dollar750-million-mini-grid-solar/mt4s49t

HacheNoire:
The dumbest fighter pilot.

Instead of you to kneel down and raise up your hands.

How many can you take out! You think this Hollywood movie!

Atlantis585:
Mt. Kilimanjaro is not same as Mt. Everest. Stop confusing the two. The deadi body dey for Mt. Everest.