Geopolitics Watch

20 March 2026 07:12

🇮🇷✍️🛢 - Iran is establishing a system to regulate the Hormuz passage for friendly traffic, according to a report by Lloyd's List Intelligence.

1⃣ A tanker operator revealed they paid a transit fee equivalent to $2 million to the Iranian authority for each vessel passing the strait.

2⃣ The system covers operators with established economic relation with Iran and vessels from countries with friendly relations.

3⃣ Ships are required to register before passage and reroute around Iran's Larak island for ease of inspection.

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20 March 2026 05:30

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 - A medical convoy was spotted heading for Walter Reed military medical center after the arrival of a medevac flight from Germany today.

Wounded US service members in the Middle East are usually evacuated to Germany first for medical treatment.

US Central Command has confirmed at least 200 injured in the war in Iran.

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19 March 2026 23:19

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Red Alerts in Haifa. Clusters laid out.

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19 March 2026 23:11

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Yet another launch, this time to northern Israel.

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19 March 2026 23:04

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - IRGC Ballistic Missile launch to central Israel.

3 previous wave was launched in the past 45 minutes.

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19 March 2026 21:47

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Red Alerts in Jerusalem.

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19 March 2026 19:56

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Red Alerts.

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19 March 2026 19:49

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — IRGC ballistic missile launches towards northern Israel. No early warning issued.

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19 March 2026 18:07

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — WATCH: IRGC fighter before launching a ballistic missile on Israel:

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Whoever fights for the sake of Allah, Allah will make him victorious.

For the victims of Epstein Island, we target the idol of Baal.

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19 March 2026 17:57

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Intercepted. No injuries, say the MDA.

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19 March 2026 17:45

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - IRGC Ballistic Missile launches towards northern Israel.

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19 March 2026 16:59

🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵 - President Trump is hosting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the White House.

The Hormuz crisis will feature very high on the agenda. The US is eyeing to engage Japan formidable minesweeper fleet.

Under the right-wing nationalist Takaichi, Tokyo has become increasingly close to Washington and hawkish toward China.

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19 March 2026 16:34

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — The Israeli Energy Minister says the damage to the electricity network in northern Israel is limited.

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19 March 2026 16:28

#BREAKING
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸✈️ - A USAF "F-35" Stealth Fighter Jet was damaged by alleged Iranian fire and had to make emergency landing. The incident happened when the stealth fighter jet was on a sortie. The pilot is in stable condition - CNN reported.

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19 March 2026 16:13

📝🇮🇱🇮🇷 — The Haifa refinery is the largest and most important fuel facility in Israel, supplying about 50-60% of the country's fuel (about 60% diesel, 50% gasoline).

➡️The plant processes approximately 197,000 barrels per day, which means that a large portion of Israel's transportation, aviation, and military fuel relies on it.

📝Israel only has two refineries.

Geopolitics Watch

20 March 2026 06:29

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼🛢 - The Kuwaiti refinery Mina Al Ahmadi was attacked for a second time in two days, resulting in a fire.

The refinery has the capacity of 350k barrels per day.

The yesterday attack affected one unit. The resulting fire was just contained before today attack came, causing fire at several units.

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20 March 2026 00:34

#NEW
⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah has announced detonating an IED on an IDF "D9 Caterpillar" Bulldozer in southern Lebanon's 'Taybeh'.

Hezbollah has also detonated IEDs upon IDF infantry soldiers in the 'AlZaqqa' neighborhood of 'Aytaroun', southern Lebanon, inflicting direct causalities.

The attacks occurred across the past 2 days.

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19 March 2026 23:13

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Renewed launches again, to the north.

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19 March 2026 23:07

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Red Alerts in Jerusalem.

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19 March 2026 22:55

#NEW
⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah publish video of it's attack on at least 5 IDF "Merkava" Tanks convoy advancing towards southern Lebanon's 'Taybeh' using ATGMs.

The attack led to the destruction of at least 3 tanks, the video displayed the withdrawal of the units.

Interestingly, the video is from an EO/IR lens with integrated AI identification.

The video is from last night's announced attacks.

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19 March 2026 21:42

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - IRGC Ballistic Missiles inbound to central Israel.

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19 March 2026 19:51

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Early Warning for northern Israel due to IRGC ballistic missile launches.

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19 March 2026 19:44

🇸🇾❌🇮🇱 — Hebrew media sources report nineteen rockets were fired from Syrian territory targeting IDF positions in the IDF-occupied Golan Heights. According to Hebrew media, the rockets impacted in open areas.

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19 March 2026 17:58

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - Incoming the 2 USAF "B-1B Lancer" sorties through the Persian Gulf now.

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19 March 2026 17:50

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Red Alerts across the north.

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19 March 2026 17:09

#BREAKING
⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The IRGC has published footage of the targeting of a USAF "F-35" Stealth Fighter Jet in the skies of central Iran at 02:50 am today.

The IRGC states that the aircraft was severely damaged and there is a high probability it crashed, though its fate is unknown.

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19 March 2026 16:39

🇮🇱❌📸🌐 — The Israeli Broadcasting Authority says they received a notice from the military censorship not to publish documents about the impacts in Haifa, complains because telegram channels did not comply.

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19 March 2026 16:29

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Footage from inside Haifa refinery taken by 48-Arab workers show massive smoke emerging from the impacted site.

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19 March 2026 16:25

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israeli military censors lifted the ban on reporting the Haifa refinery strike shortly after the entire internet had already seen the photos.

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19 March 2026 16:08

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Power outage in Haifa and Kiryat Haim following the Iranian missile attack.