U.S. and Israel vow more strikes as Trump attends dignified transfer of fallen troops
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●》DIGNIFIED TRANSFER: A military aircraft carrying the remains of U.S. service members killed in the Middle East arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware [on Saturday, March 7, 2026]. President Donald Trump and other administration officials attended the dignified transfer ceremony.
●》IRAN STEPS BACK: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says the country will “no longer attack neighboring countries or launch missiles unless an attack on Iran originates from those countries.” He also rejected Trump’s call for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”
●》TRUMP VOWS MORE STRIKES: “Today Iran will be hit very hard,” Trump said on social media this morning, adding that “areas and groups of people” in Iran are “under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death.”
●》 SCHOOL STRIKE INVESTIGATION: It looks increasingly likely that a U.S. munition was responsible for a strike on a school in Iran, a U.S. official and another person familiar with the preliminary findings of the U.S. investigation said. More than 160 people, including children, died in the strike.
●》IRAN’S FUTURE LEADER: The clerics choosing the new figurehead after the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were making plans to “introduce the future leader,” state media reported. Trump has that Iran should have a “good leader” and that he has some names in mind.
●》AMERICANS STRANDED: Thousands of American citizens remain stranded in the Middle East as Iran has continued to strike Gulf nations.
●》DEATH TOLL: Hundreds of people have been killed across the Middle East. In Iran, at least 940 have been killed by Israeli and American strikes, Iranian state media reported, and 11 have died in Israel as Iran fired back. And in Lebanon, nearly 300 people have been killed by Israeli strikes
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