Welcome to our live coverage of the US and Israel\u2019s war with Iran.<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s Financial Times reports Russia – which has benefited from the Iran war more than anyone else, probably, with America easing sanctions on its oil despite the ongoing invasion of Ukraine – is planning to ship drones, medicine and food to Iran to help it fight the Americans and Israelis.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to Western intelligence reports that detail Moscow\u2019s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting,\u201d the FT reports.<\/p>\n
\u201cSenior Iranian and Russian officials began secretly discussing delivering drones days after Israel and the US attacked Tehran, two officials briefed on the intelligence said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe processing of deliveries began in early March and was expected to be completed by the end of the month. Moscow has close ties with Tehran and has provided its ally with crucial support including satellite imagery, targeting data and intelligence support, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe shipments of weaponry such as drones would be the first evidence Moscow has been willing to provide lethal support to Iran since the start of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who said: \u201cThere are a lot of fakes going around right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that Russia is \u201ccontinuing our dialogue with the Iranian leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Iran is reportedly \u201claying traps\u201d on Kharg Island, the hub of its economy, in anticipation of a US invasion. The below comes from CNN.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere is what sources tell CNN tonight. They say Iran is actively preparing for an invasion of Kharg Island. It\u2019s an island that Trump has long talked about invading,\u201d said host Erin Burnett.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow the traps that we understand are being put there, anti-personnel and anti-armour mines, we understand, being placed around the island. And Tehran also, apparently, quickly moving a large number of actual troops and air defences to this island.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of these things could clearly result in a large number of US casualties, according to US military experts, and some in Trump\u2019s inner circles are sounding the alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n
This comment, on social media, is from an Iranian military adviser.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they haven\u2019t gotten any results from their air force, which is their strong point; what do they expect from ground action? Do American soldiers want to die for Israel? We\u2019re waiting,\u201d said Mohsen Rezaie, a former commander in the Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n
Read on below for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our live coverage of the US and Israel\u2019s war with Iran. Britain\u2019s Financial Times reports Russia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-565309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}