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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 4, 2026

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A US submarine sinks an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka in footage released on March 4, 2026. (US Department of War)

32 critically wounded crew members rescued

‘Quiet Death’: US sub fires torpedo to sink Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, in first since WWII

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

101 people missing, one dead and 78 injured, Sri Lankan sources say, after downing of ship armed with missiles, torpedoes; US military has said it aims to sink Iran’s ‘entire navy’

A picture taken from a Turkish Navy drone-carrying amphibious assault ship, shows a Turkish Frigate and an Italian vessel during a NATO exercise in the Adriatic Sea on September 24, 2025. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Iranian missile downed as it heads towards NATO member Turkey

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

March 4: Trump says US in ‘very strong position’ on Iran, whose leadership is ‘rapidly going’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF strikes Tehran for 2nd time in a day, targets 2 Hezbollah members in Beirut * Hezbollah chief claims renewed attacks on Israel a response to 15 months of violations

9:54 pm

Most in US disapprove of Trump's Iran war handling; 1/3 of non-MAGA Republicans oppose the US strikes
9:52 pm

Several reports claim Kurdish fighters have launched cross-border attack in Iran; Iran denies it
9:24 pm

Kurdish groups claim they're preparing cross-border op in Iran with US support

Katz: Israel will target any leader appointed by the regime

Khamenei’s son emerges as frontrunner to succeed him; Trump spurns Pahlavi as post-regime leader

By AP, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Clerics said wary of naming Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader, fearing he’ll more likely be targeted by US and Israel; US president says ‘most of the people we had in mind’ to lead Iranian government are dead already

FILE: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Footage of the Israeli strike on a building in the Iranian city of Qom where a body was set to choose Iran's new supreme leader on March 3, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel strikes building where Iranian clerics said gathering to elect new supreme leader

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Farah Pahlavi, widow of Iran's former shah, poses during a photo session at her home in Paris on January 20, 2026. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Shah’s widow warns Khamenei’s death alone won’t topple Islamic Republic

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Submunitions from an Iranian ballistic missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead streaks through the sky over central Israel, March 1, 2026. (Screenshot X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Explainer

Iran’s cluster missiles scatter bombs and destruction across Israel

Missile’s warhead opens up on descent, spreading some 20 submunitions, each with 2.5kg of explosives, indiscriminately threatening a much wider area

An Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jet takes off from an airbase in Israel for strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on March 3, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Rookie pilot credited with kill during bombing raid

In world 1st, Israeli F-35 shoots down Iranian jet in air-to-air combat over Tehran

By Emanuel Fabian

Incident also 1st time in some 40 years that Israeli Air Force engaged in air-to-air combat with manned aircraft; IAF expected to mark jet with decal ‘victory mark’ to denote achievement

A person stands on the roof of a building looking at a plume of smoke rising after a strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, on March 3, 2026. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

IDF carries out ‘extensive’ strikes on regime targets; Iran fires missiles at Israeli towns

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A militiaman of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, stands behind his truck-mounted machine gun near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, September 5, 2016. (Balint Szlanko/AP)

US in talks with Iranian Kurds on potential CIA-backed op for uprising – sources

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Of course this is Israel’s war in Iran. It’s America’s, too. We’d all better win it

Trump’s critics, ostensibly from his own camp, evidently have a very dim view of his intellect and skill set * In Iran, unlike Gaza, ‘total victory’ need not be an empty slogan, provided there’s proper planning * For the regime, it’s survival at any cost

File: Then-Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, accompanied by the armed forces commanders, visits an exhibition of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' aerospace achievements, in Iran, November 19, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Scientists worked at 'Minzadehei' on nuke 'capabilities'

IDF says it destroyed secret underground site where Iran moved nuclear project after June war

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli jets have dropped over 4,000 munitions on Islamic Republic in four days of US-Israeli bombing campaign, more than in all 12 days of previous war, according to the military

A secret underground site on the outskirts of Tehran where Iran had transferred much of its nuclear program, seen in a graphic released by the IDF. (Screenshot/IDF via X)

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

Russia halts construction work at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant due to strikes nearby

Inside story

US officials say diplomatic path was at dead end when Trump approved Iran strikes

Administration accuses Iran of trying to drag US along during three rounds of talks, claiming it wouldn’t seek a nuclear weapon while insisting on maintaining the means to do so

In this handout photo released by the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 26, 2026, US special envoy Steve Witkoff (center) and Jared Kushner hold a meeting with Oman's Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi (right) in Geneva. (Omani Foreign Ministry / AFP)

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

AnalysisNetanyahu’s war alliance with Trump faces test as Iran crisis widens

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office at the White House, March 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says he may have forced Israel’s hand into war with Iranian ‘lunatics’

US president says Iran was ‘going to attack first,’ most people he’d considered as potential future leaders of Iran ‘are dead’; said to have spoken with Netanyahu 15 times in run-up to war

A boy waves an Iranian flag in front of a police facility struck during the US–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing March 4 – Trump’s war on Iran draws ire as detractors blame Jewish state

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

People chat slogans during a demonstration in support of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran on March 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP/Jill Connelly)

Iranian Jews in the US view war with hope, trepidation and dreams of a future visit

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Tucker Carlson (left) speaks at a memorial for Charlie Kirk, September 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (AP/Ross D. Franklin, File); Megyn Kelly at the Capitol in Washington, DC, January 14, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Isolationist US right-wing commentators decry Iran war; Trump says he doesn’t care

Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly claim Israel is dragging the US into a damaging war; president says that’s not true, and that he alone represents MAGA

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters before his scheduled House and Senate Intelligence Committees briefing about Iran at the US Capitol in Washington, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Israel’s critics erupt after Rubio suggests it dragged US into war with Iran

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: An El Al flight at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, February 25, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/ FLASH90)

US State Department helping almost 500 Americans seeking to evacuate from Israel

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Analysis

Hoping to pressure end to war, Iran aims fire at Arab neighbors. It hasn’t worked, yet

Tehran is betting raising the costs of fighting for the stability-hungry region will lead to Trump backing off strikes, but the Gulf’s defiance has foiled the strategy. Will it last?

Residents watch as the flames and a black plume of smoke rises from a warehouse at the industrial area of Sharjah City in the United Arab Emirates following reports of Iranian strikes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

An Iranian flag is placed among the ruins of a police station struck during the US–Israeli bombing campaign in Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Russia, China and Turkey push for immediate end to Iran war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A view of downtown Dubai on March 3, 2026. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Israel partially evacuates UAE embassy staff after 2 attempted Iranian terror attacks — official

By Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

Foreign Ministry says officials working to determine ‘safest paths of return’ for Israelis in the Gulf state, which pushes back on report it’s planning to join strikes on Iran

The US embassy headquarters in Riyadh is pictured on March 3, 2026, after it was hit by drone strikes earlier. (AFP)

US shuts its embassies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait after being hit by Iranian strikes

Persians freed the Jews, now the Jews are freeing Persia

Those in the region who mock Israel’s rhetoric of liberation either do not know or choose to ignore: Persians are not Arabs

Yes, Israel’s war with Iran is legal

After decades of proxy war and direct missile attacks, this response is not a violation of international law — it is what the right of self-defense was meant to allow

Firefighters inspect rubble as smoke rises from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah fires on Tel Aviv as Israel threatens Iranian officers in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Terror group carries out first long-range attack since start of Iran war; IDF says ‘no safe place’ for Iranian regime in Lebanon

Syrian soldiers stand in the snow in the country's mountainous Qalamoun region, near the border with Lebanon, during a patrol to secure the frontier and prevent smuggling operations on January 1, 2026. (Bakr ALkasem / AFP)

Syria deploys thousands of troops to border with Lebanon, officials say

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Trump threatens to cut all trade ties with Spain over Iran war refusal, disses Starmer

By Shaun Tandon

‘We don’t want anything to do with Spain,’ says US president after Madrid barred use of its bases for strike; Trump also slams British PM: ‘This is not Winston Churchill’

French aircraft carrier The Charles de Gaulle docks at Subic Bay port, a former U.S. Naval base northwest of Manila, Philippines, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File)

Macron orders French aircraft carrier to Mediterranean to protect allied assets in region

US President Donald Trump, left, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer look at each other as they shake hands during a press conference at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, September 18, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

War with Iran strains the US-UK ‘special relationship’ as Starmer and Trump disagree

By Jill Lawless

Illustrative: An El Al aircraft is seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on February 25, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel okays plan to slowly reopen airspace from Wednesday night for repatriation flights

By Sharon Wrobel

Goal is to bring back some 10,000 stranded Israelis per day; for now, no outgoing passengers will be allowed on the flights amid security concerns

Illustrative: A cargo ship is seen at northern Israel's Haifa port, November 14, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Israel using cargo ships to bring back doctors stranded abroad by war, official says

By Reuters and Sharon Wrobel

Residents of Beit Shemesh attend a Purim megillah reading on March 2, 2026. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

After deadly missile impact, Beit Shemesh struggles to maintain Purim cheer

By Charlie Summers

As city reels from strike, most synagogues stay open for Purim against army’s guidelines, but streets largely empty; Sunday’s tragedy ‘lowered the volume,’ says rabbi’s wife

More Headlines

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the US Senate, poses for a selfie with a supporter during a primary election night watch party, in Dallas, March 3, 2026. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Republicans headed to runoff in pivotal Texas midterm, Democrats too early to call

By Thomas Beaumont and Will Weissert

Illustrative: Security at a pro-Israel rally, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2023. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Shots fired at Toronto synagogue after Purim celebration; none injured

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (left) attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG urges High Court to force Netanyahu to fire Ben Gvir; coalition fumes

By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman

Visitors sit at the opening of the "Nova Music Festival Exhibition" in the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, October 5, 2025. (Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Millions in German funds to fight antisemitism went to unvetted groups, probe says

By Shira Li Bartov

Supporters of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party at a rally in Athens, February 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greek court to sentence over 40 neo-Nazi party members for crimes during economic crisis

By AFP

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