Days 1 and 2 of Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion were filled with so much dramatic news and high value targets that it was hard to keep up. Day 3 is a bit less dramatic, just more U.S. and Israel strike packets hitting targets in the country with essential impunity. And some of those targets (like border posts and police stations) seem to be tertiary targets.
So here’s another round up news. I think all the tweets are from the Suchomimus Discord.
In what has to be the greatest hack since the beeper attack, the ingenious Israelis have had their cyber guys at work again and busted into the regime’s version of The Hallow app for Islamic Religious Fundamentalists.
Why is this important?
It’s state-sponsored, and everyone gets it.
So now, instead of saying ‘Allahu ackbar,’ the prayer app is telling Iranians across the country, ‘Hang in there – WE ARE COMING..’
Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran.
According to reporting by the Financial Times, nearly all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras had been hacked years earlier, their footage encrypted and transmitted to Israeli servers. One camera angle near Pasteur Street, close to Khamenei’s compound, allowed analysts to observe the routines of bodyguards and drivers: where they parked, when they arrived and whom they escorted.
That data was fed into complex algorithms that built what intelligence officials call a “pattern of life,” detailed profiles including addresses, work schedules and, crucially, which senior officials were being protected and transported. The surveillance stream was one of hundreds feeding Israel’s intelligence system, which combines signals interception from Unit 8200, human assets recruited by the Mossad and large-scale data analysis by military intelligence.
The result was Ali Khamenei and company getting express tickets to the afterlife.
#Breaking: The port of Mahshahr, located in the southwest of #Iran, and the command post of the Third Maritime Command of the #IRGC Navy were targeted by the U.S. Navy.#OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/DUIAoboVSH
— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) March 2, 2026
NEW: Israeli jets have begun striking border guard positions along the Iraq-Iran frontier in what appears to be an effort to weaken Iranian control over the region and potentially clear a path for armed Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraq to move back into Iran. pic.twitter.com/srj7CWrGWr
— Levent Kemal (@leventkemaI) March 2, 2026
#BREAKING: All detainees held at the Central Prison of (Kurdish town of) Marivan (Mariwan) were released shortly after Israeli and U.S. fighter jets bombed military and intelligence facilities in the city, according to information received by Hengaw. The development occurred on… pic.twitter.com/nPKpTKWoRa
— Wladimir van Wilgenburg (@vvanwilgenburg) March 2, 2026
The American military says it struck Iranian naval drone carrier IRIS Shahid Bagheri during the opening strikes on Iran on Saturday.
“The Iranian regime’s false messaging machine continues to falsely claim that it has sunk a US aircraft carrier. The only carrier that has been hit is the Shahid Bagheri, an Iranian drone carrier,” the US Central Command says.
“US forces struck the ship within hours of launching Operation Epic Fury,” CENTCOM adds.
#Breaking: The moment the headquarters of the #IRGC in eastern #Tehran, capital city of #Iran, was targeted once again by the #Israeli Air Force during Operation Lion’s Roar.#OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/CBl4kvB8cd
— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) March 2, 2026
Remarkable footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching a just landed US F15 pilot who was shot out of the sky. pic.twitter.com/rdrTpjwLI7
— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) March 2, 2026
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If I missed some in-theater tidbit of particular import, feel free to share it in the comments.
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Oil is up another $ 5 per barrel this morning.
Diesel on the Frankfurt bourse is up another $ 116 per metric ton. It has almost doubled over three trading days.
Dutch TTF Natural Gas has simply gone parabolic.
Thanks for another update. If 10 by 25 is accurate, it looks like my oil royalty checks will be bigger next month.
Keeping the succession crisis at fever pitch:
“and US strikes hit the building of a body tasked with electing Iran’s new supreme leader in the city of Qom, local media reported on Tuesday.
“The American-Zionist criminals attacked the Assembly of Experts building in Qom,” south of Tehran, reported the Tasnim news agency.
The assembly is tasked with appointing, supervising and potentially dismissing the supreme leader.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-us-strikes-hit-building-assembly-choosing-new-iran-supreme-leader
“Israel struck while they were counting the votes for the appointment of the supreme leader,” a senior Israeli official told Fox News.
Former leader Ali Khamenei was killed during a wave of US-Israeli attacks on Saturday.
Keeping the succession crisis at fever pitch:
“Israel and US strikes hit the building of a body tasked with electing Iran’s new supreme leader in the city of Qom, local media reported on Tuesday.
“The American-Zionist criminals attacked the Assembly of Experts building in Qom,” south of Tehran, reported the Tasnim news agency.
The assembly is tasked with appointing, supervising and potentially dismissing the supreme leader.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-us-strikes-hit-building-assembly-choosing-new-iran-supreme-leader
“Israel struck while they were counting the votes for the appointment of the supreme leader,” a senior Israeli official told Fox News.
Former leader Ali Khamenei was killed during a wave of US-Israeli attacks on Saturday.
“Oil is up another $ 5 per barrel this morning.”
Meijer is charging $2.62/gal. today, which is $.02 cheaper than Saturday, when your dire prediction of skyrocketing gas prices was made.
Circle K=$2.59,; Speedway=$2.64; BP=$2.65.
It looks like your other prediction, that the Europeans would be “kissing Putin’s ass”, remains your exclusive purview for now.
“Meijer is charging $2.62/gal. today, which is $.02 cheaper than Saturday, when your dire prediction of skyrocketing gas prices was made.
Circle K=$2.59,; Speedway=$2.64; BP=$2.65.”
Price increases are coming to us, slowly. Each inventory replenishment cycle will be higher priced:
AAA reports the national average regular gasoline price at the pump rose by $0.11 to $3.109 per gallon over the last 24 hours. 3.5%
AAA reports the national average diesel fuel price at the pump rose by $0.12 to $ 3.891 over the last 24 hours. 3.1%
But the energy prices you really need to watch are diesel fuel prices in Europe. The existential problem for the European war machine as it faces off against Russia is diesel fuel, which has doubled in price in the Frankfurt bourse during the last three days. Everything in Europe is transported by diesel ICEs. The logistics of supporting your beloved Ukraine just become very difficult.
This was the whole purpose of the Ukrainian pinprick attacks on Russian refineries, now writ large for Europe with the closure of Ras Tanura, which is where almost 70% of European diesel fuel comes from. There are a lot more vessels which can carry diesel in the world than LNG tankers, so I think we will also see explosive diesel fuel price increases over here within 30 days if Ras Tanura doesn’t restart and the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
Side note: Ukrainian diesel prices are up 5% over the last 24 hours according to Reuters.
“Price increases are coming to us, slowly. Each inventory replenishment cycle will be higher priced:”
Wrong again. There is a secular trend for commodity prices to fall over time.
You were emphatically wrong about sharply higher prices on Monday and you wiil be proved wrong again about long-term trends in oil pricing.
“The price of crude instantly tumbled on Tuesday after the Trump administration is reportedly considering providing, or assisting in obtaining insurance for oil tankers crossing through the strait of Hormuz.”
“Wrong again. There is a secular trend for commodity prices to fall over time.
You were emphatically wrong about sharply higher prices on Monday and you wiil be proved wrong again about long-term trends in oil pricing.”
The secular trend in commodity prices is always higher, due to the deliberate depreciation of fiat currencies by central banks. I can remember $ 2 barrels of oil. Today they are $ 75. I invested in gold at $ 120 and silver at $ 4 years ago. Use your very limited math skills to figure out the actual secular trend.
You appear to be much wealthier than me. I consider an 8.6% increase in a single day to be “sharply higher.” West Texas Intermediate, the United States benchmark, was selling for $72.79 a barrel Monday, up 8.6% from its closing price of about $67 on Friday. This is three years’ inflation in a single trading day.
Trump may help you on this one. He just announced that Commerce will develop a mechanism to facilitate insurance for the tankers trapped in the Persian Gulf. This knocked down the $ 10+ price increase which happened just a few minutes before, when the Iraqis shut down all their oil production in sympathy with Iran.
The smartest President we have had since Coolidge just made you look smart. Express your gratitude. It was a major accomplishment on Trump’s part.
““The price of crude instantly tumbled on Tuesday after the Trump administration is reportedly considering providing, or assisting in obtaining insurance for oil tankers crossing through the strait of Hormuz.””
The Iraqis shut down their oil production in sympathy with their fellow Shia minutes before. There is a struggle going on between these two news items in the trading world. The Iraqis just removed 3 million barrels from world daily production.
As a side note on gasoline prices: I paid under $3/gal today in MN. It was substantially higher during Biden.
If I need to pay more as a part of this Iran rescue mission, I will do so happily. Eggs, omelets.