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U.S. President Donald Trump encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces successful Iraq to motorboat attacks against Iran arsenic struggle successful West Asia widened, with Azerbaijan informing it would retaliate for being targeted by Iranian missiles.
Also read: Israel-Iran warfare updates connected March 6, 2026
Israel connected Friday (March 6, 2026) said it had started a “broad-scale” question of attacks against infrastructure targets successful Tehran, arsenic Gulf cities came nether renewed bombardment by Iran.
The seven-day warfare has present seen Iran people Israel, the Gulf states, Cyprus, Turkey and Azerbaijan and dispersed to the Indian Ocean disconnected Sri Lanka, wherever a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian naval ship.
On the anticipation of the Iranian Kurdish forces entering Iran, Mr. Trump told Reuters on Thursday (March 5, 2026), “I deliberation it’s fantastic that they privation to bash that; I’d beryllium each for it.”
Two Iranian drone attacks targeted an Iranian absorption campy successful Iraqi Kurdistan connected Thursday (March 5, 2026), information sources said.
Iranian Kurdish militias person consulted with the United States successful caller days astir whether, and how, to onslaught Iran’s information forces successful the occidental portion of the country, according to 3 sources with cognition of the matter.
The Iranian Kurdish conjugation of groups based connected the Iran-Iraq borderline successful the semi-autonomous portion of Iraqi Kurdistan has been grooming to mount specified an onslaught successful hopes of weakening the country’s military, arsenic the United States and Israel lb Iranian targets with bombs and missiles. Mr. Trump, speaking with Reuters in a telephone interview, besides said the United States indispensable person a relation successful deciding who volition beryllium the adjacent person of Iran aft airstrikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei past week.
“We’re going to person to take that idiosyncratic on with Iran. We’re going to person to take that person,” he said.
U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) that the U.S. was not expanding its subject objectives successful Iran, contempt what Mr. Trump said astir choosing the country’s adjacent leader.
“There’s nary enlargement successful our objectives. We cognize precisely what we’re trying to achieve,” helium said. The onslaught connected Iran is simply a large governmental gamble for the Republican President, with sentiment polls showing small enactment and Americans acrophobic astir the emergence successful gasoline prices caused by disruption to vigor supplies.
Mr. Trump dismissed that concern. Shares connected Wall Street fell connected Thursday (March 5, 2026), weighed down by surging lipid prices, arsenic the economical interaction of the run intensified, with countries astir the satellite chopped disconnected from a 5th of planetary supplies of lipid and liquefied earthy state and aerial transport inactive facing chaos and planetary logistics progressively snarled.
Azerbaijan prepares to retaliate
Azerbaijan was preparing unspecified retaliatory measures connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) aft it said 4 Iranian drones crossed its borderline and injured 4 radical successful the Nakhchivan exclave.
“We volition not tolerate this unprovoked enactment of panic and aggression against Azerbaijan,” President Ilham Aliyev told a gathering of his Security Council.
Iran, which has a important Azeri minority, denied it targeted its neighbour.
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militia warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns wrong 5 km (3 miles) of the borderline betwixt the countries successful a connection posted connected its Telegram transmission successful Hebrew aboriginal connected Friday (March 6, 2026).
“Your military’s aggression against Lebanese sovereignty and harmless citizens, the demolition of civilian infrastructure and the expulsion run it is carrying retired volition not spell unchallenged,” Hezbollah said.
