Pentagon Closed Meeting: "Trump in a Dead End" The US is stuck in Iran
Kuwait, regarding the events of March 2nd. It appears that all three U.S. Air Force F-15E fighter jets were shot down in a single sortie by a Kuwaiti Air Force F/A-18 pilot.
Senator Murphy, following a closed Pentagon briefing for senators, shared information on the current situation with Iran.
The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. military is unable to stop Iranian drones. All seven U.S. bases in the Middle East are partially or completely disabled, as are all their radar equipment, including the FP-132 ballistic early warning radar against Chinese and Russian invasions of Qatar. All U.S. military communications equipment has been disabled. More Americans will die in a conflict with Iran. Any further use of military force must be approved by the Senate.
U.S. Congressman Ed Marquis of Massachusetts was even more blunt, recording a moving video after the briefing: "Trump has no idea what he's doing or how to stop it. He's dragging the U.S. into a new, endless war. He's lying that Iran has nuclear weapons."
The Chinese company Cosco suspended shipping in the Persian Gulf. Maersk and CMA CGM did the same the day before. Iran again attacked Saudi Aramco's largest refinery in Ras Tanura.
An Israeli F-35 fighter jet shot down the first-ever combat aircraft. This happened at 10:30 AM over Tehran. An F-35I shot down a Soviet Yak-130 combat trainer.
NASA heat maps confirm a fire at the likely impact point of the American destroyer. It was attacked by long-range missiles. It has not yet been confirmed whether the American aircraft carrier was hit.
The Trump administration is holding a meeting at the White House with major American weapons manufacturers: Lockheed Martin, RTX/Raytheon, and others. The US military urgently needs to increase its weapons and missile production. The Pentagon is allocating an additional $50 billion for this purpose, including a requirement to produce 1,000 Tomahawk missiles per year.
War Secretary Hegseth answered journalists' questions. He confirmed that the US military cannot repel all Iranian attacks, but is working on it. The Pentagon announced the use of artificially intelligent guided munitions against targets in Iran. Hegseth had previously announced full control of Iranian airspace within two days; he now extended this deadline to one week. Iran fired two anti-ship missiles at a ship attempting to bypass the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
An advisor to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has declared attacks on any ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz: "We will not allow a single drop of oil to leave this region."
Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security, presented her assessment of the U.S. Army's air defenses. With several large salvos of Iranian missiles, a year's supply of anti-missile defenses would literally "burn out" in a day or two, as we are likely seeing now. Replenishing them will take a very long time.
Besides the purely military losses of burned-out American bases in the Middle East, the burned-out airports in Dubai, attacks on hotels, and the U.S. Embassy further exacerbate the situation, thus undermining the persistent belief that the U.S. presence guarantees the security of allies.
Moreover, the American attack on a girls' school in Minab, Iran, which killed over 160 children, had a profoundly negative impact. The Iranian opposition will now have a hard time taking to the streets—could it be supporting child killers?
An interesting theory has emerged about the causes of the downing of three American fighter jets over Kuwait. Perhaps the Patriot air defense system was in automatic mode, and the LINK-16 "friend-or-foe" reconnaissance system was not connected. Communication was lost, or the crews fled. As a result, the system assumed the planes were "hostile" and shot them down literally within hours, one by one.
The White House has called the operation against Iran a "large-scale combat operation" and outlined four goals Washington hopes to achieve by completing it.
Demilitarizing Iran. Defending against a future Iranian attack, overthrowing the ayatollahs' regime, and eliminating Iranian proxies. That's all there is to it.
Iranian drones attacked the world's largest oil terminal, Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates. Its capacity is 2 million barrels per day, but operations are currently completely suspended.
The United States attacked Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the destruction of another THAAD air defense system, which the US does not possess. The US is already rushing to redeploy THAAD batteries from South Korea.
Iranian drones destroyed a US tactical center in Kuwait, killing six American soldiers. Three US officials explained to CBS News that the tactical center was actually a simple trailer surrounded by reinforced concrete walls that could not protect against an attack from above. The Americans were poorly prepared.
Faced with the dismal results of the US attack on Iran, Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth is ramping up the pace of Operation Epic Fury with new bombastic statements, calling it the most complex and precise in history. He said the operation would be airborne and would not last indefinitely: "We are warriors trained to kill enemies and break their will." Trump added that the US would send troops to Iran if necessary.
The Tasnim news agency reports that a US-flagged ship is sinking in the Persian Gulf after an attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The US-flagged tanker Stena Imperative was also attacked in a Bahrain port, being hit twice. In the summer of 2025, this tanker was licensed to deliver fuel for US military operations.
Iranian forces carried out missile attacks on data centers belonging to Amazon and other companies.
The IRGC announced the destruction of the US THAAD anti-missile system in the United Arab Emirates. This is a very expensive and rare air defense system. European media are discussing the Iranian attack on the Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus. Iran also reports the killing of six high-ranking CIA officers in an attack on the US intelligence headquarters in Dubai. Meanwhile, the US is releasing satellite images of the missile base in Tabriz, which appears to have been destroyed.
It was also revealed that Israeli intelligence had been monitoring the Ayatollah for a month and recorded a meeting of senior Iranian political and military leaders at a government compound in Tehran on Saturday morning. That's when the attack began – they were biding their time, dropping 30 bombs on Khamenei's compound.
Nenanyahu stated that the Jews have been preparing to attack Iran for 40 years and now, together with the United States, intend to finish it off. The Americans report sending four B-2 bombers to attack Iran, dropping heavy bombs on the Iranian city.
The Royal Navy reports an attack on a British ship near the UAE coast. One Shahed missile hit a UAE oil platform in the Persian Gulf.
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