Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
The US and Israel have launched an attack on Iran, with Trump calling the US operation âmassive and ongoingâ. This is what we know so far
The US has launched âmajor combat operationsâ in Iran, designed to eliminate âimminent threatsâ from the countryâs regime, Donald Trump announced on Saturday.
The operation is âmassive and ongoingâ, the US president said in a video on social media, pledging to use âoverwhelming strength and devastating forceâ to destroy Iranian missiles and ensure it cannot develop a nuclear weapon.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks aimed to âremove the existential threatâ posed by the Iranian regime, as he urged the people of Iran to topple the government.
A short time beforehand, Israel said it had launched âpreventativeâ strikes on Iran.
The IDF said Iran had fired back a âbarrage of missilesâ and it was working to intercept them. Israel has closed its airspace.
Explosions were heard in Tehran, the Iranian capital, where smoke could be seen rising on the skyline, and several other cities. Iran has closed its airspace.
âThe hour of your freedom is at hand,â Trump told Iranian citizens, urging them to âtake over your governmentâ once the operation is over.
Talks between the US and Iran on Tehranâs nuclear programme ended inconclusively on Friday, with a suggestion that further discussions would be held next week. Trump had said he was ânot happyâ with the progress of discussions.
Iranâs supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not in Tehran, and has been transferred to a secure location, an official told Reuters on Saturday.
Continue reading...News, discussion and buildup before the dayâs action
Premier League 10 things link | Email us here
Speaking of the Champions League, the draw for the last 16 was made yesterday so our man Jonathan Wilson has sifted through the ties and decided who is going to win each one. So you donât even need to watch Real Madrid v Manchester City for the 1,836th time.
Bundesliga: There are four 2.30pm (GMT) kick-offs in the German top flight today but the headline acts comes later on in the shape of Der Klassiker. Itâs a game that could kill off the title race â if there ever was one â once and for all, given Bayern Munich lead Borussia Dortmund by eight points before kick-off. A home win at Signal Iduna Park, however, could spice things up, though whether Dortmund will be weather-beaten by their Champions League collapse against Atalanta remains to be seen.
Continue reading...In the past he has been urged to follow strategies that donât really match his core beliefs. Thatâs changing, as it must, because he knows the clock is ticking
Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer, The Biography
In a crowded and overheated bar towards the end of the evening a few months ago, I received some strange parenting advice from one of those âLabour strategistâ types.
We were discussing â maybe arguing â over the governmentâs position on Gaza. Eventually I asked if he could provide me with a decent explanation to give my son who had shown me stuff on his phone a couple of days earlier about how Israeli army officers were still being trained by Britainâs military. âHereâs what you say to your son,â began his reply, followed by a portentous pause that made me lean in closer. âYou should tell him to fuck off.â
Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer, The Biography
Continue reading...Project Play finds UK taxpayers are funding ârecord child fatalitiesâ and ârepeated violenceâ against children in northern France
The deaths of 22 children while trying to cross the Channel in the last two years, along with the mistreatment of thousands of others, were due to âcatastrophic failuresâ of the UK and French governments, according to a new report.
Project Play, an NGO that has worked with 2,192 children hoping to cross the Channel from northern France to the UK to claim asylum in the last two years, has documented the impact of the hostile conditions in northern France due to regular teargassing, evictions and dinghy-slashing by the French police.
Continue reading...As the director general prepares to stand down, potential candidates have fallen away amid a series of crises
There is an impressive shortlist circulating in Britainâs media circles, comprising some of the most talented executives in the business. Unfortunately for the BBC, it contains the names of figures no longer in the running to become its next director general.
Those closely observing the corporationâs search for a successor to Tim Davie have been quick to note how the events of the past week help explain the alarming attrition rate.
Continue reading...
Southern California's air quality board rejected proposed rules to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 opposition comments generated through CiviClick, "the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform." Phys.org reports: A Southern California-based public affairs consultant, Matt Klink, has taken credit for using CiviClick to wage the opposition campaign, including in a sponsored article on the website Campaigns and Elections. The campaign "left the staff of the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) reeling," the article says. It is not clear how AI was deployed in the campaign, and officials at CiviClick did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But their website boasts several tools, including "state of the art technology and artificial intelligence message assistance" that can be used to create custom advocacy letters, as opposed to repetitive form letters or petitions often used in similar campaigns.
When staffers at the air district reached out to a small sample of people to verify their comments, at least three said they had not written to the agency and were not aware of any such messages, records show. But the email onslaught almost certainly influenced the board's June decision, according to agency insiders, who noted that the number of public comments typically submitted on agenda items can be counted on one hand.
The proposed rules were nearly two years in the making and would have placed a fee on natural gas-powered water heaters and furnaces, favoring electric ones, in an effort to reduce air pollution in the district, which includes Orange County and large swaths of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Gas appliances emit nitrogen oxides, or NOx -- key pollutants for forming smog. The implications are troubling, experts said, and go beyond the use of natural gas furnaces and heaters in the second-largest metropolitan area in the country.
When staffers at the air district reached out to a small sample of people to verify their comments, at least three said they had not written to the agency and were not aware of any such messages, records show. But the email onslaught almost certainly influenced the board's June decision, according to agency insiders, who noted that the number of public comments typically submitted on agenda items can be counted on one hand.
The proposed rules were nearly two years in the making and would have placed a fee on natural gas-powered water heaters and furnaces, favoring electric ones, in an effort to reduce air pollution in the district, which includes Orange County and large swaths of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Gas appliances emit nitrogen oxides, or NOx -- key pollutants for forming smog. The implications are troubling, experts said, and go beyond the use of natural gas furnaces and heaters in the second-largest metropolitan area in the country.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
JERUZALEM (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu heeft gezegd dat de aanvallen die zijn land en de Verenigde Staten op Iran uitvoeren, "de voorwaarden kunnen scheppen voor het moedige Iraanse volk om het lot in eigen hand te nemen".
Het is volgens Netanyahu "tijd voor alle geledingen in de Iraanse samenleving het juk van de tyrannie van het regime af te werpen". Het land wordt sinds 1979 geregeerd door de conservatieve sjiitische geestelijkheid die fel anti-Amerikaans en anti-Israëlisch is.
De premier herhaalde dat Iran niet mag worden toegestaan kernwapens te bemachtigen. Israëlische functionarissen hebben de aanvallen "preventief" genoemd. Iran ontkent al decennia een nucleair wapen te willen hebben.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Na de aanval op Iran roept "Nederland alle partijen op om terughoudendheid te betrachten en verdere escalatie te voorkomen", laat minister Tom Berendsen (Buitenlandse Zaken, CDA) in een reactie aan het ANP weten. "Stabiliteit in de regio is essentieel."
Hij laat verder weten dat het kabinet de situatie in Iran, Israël en de bredere regio nauwgezet volgt en in contact staat met de ambassades in de regio.
Bitcoin en andere cryptomunten zijn scherp in waarde gedaald nadat Israël zaterdag aankondigde een preventieve aanval op Iran te hebben uitgevoerd. Volgens gegevens van cryptodatabase CoinGecko is in de directe nasleep van het nieuws ongeveer 128 miljard dollar aan marktwaarde op de cryptomarkt weggevaagd.
Bitcoin zakte bijna 4 procent in waarde tot zo'n 63.000 dollar. Ether, de op een na grootste token, ging 4,5 procent omlaag tot 1835 dollar. Voor Bitcoin betekenen de verliezen een voortzetting van een maandenlange uitverkoop op de cryptomarkten, die begon kort nadat Bitcoin in oktober een piek bereikte van meer dan 126.000 dollar.
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft de Iraanse bevolking opgeroepen om in opstand te komen tegen het regime, als de Amerikaanse en Israëlische luchtaanvallen op hun land voorbij zijn. "Neem de regering over als wij klaar zijn, het zal aan jullie zijn", zei Trump in een video op Truth Social. "Dit is waarschijnlijk jullie enige kans."
Trump waarschuwde de Iraniërs voorlopig wel binnen te blijven, zolang de aanvallen nog gaande zijn. "Het is erg gevaarlijk, bommen zullen overal vallen."
De Amerikaanse president riep ook leden van de Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde, het leger en de politie op om hun wapens neer te leggen. "Je zal eerlijk worden behandeld, met totale immuniteit, of je zult een zekere dood tegemoet gaan."
JERUZALEM (ANP) - Israël zegt dat Iran raketten heeft afgevuurd in de richting van Israël, meldt nieuwssite Times of Israel. In het noorden van Israël gaat het luchtalarm af en worden mensen opgeroepen om naar schuilkelders te gaan.
TEHERAN/JERUZALEM (ANP/RTR) - De Iraanse president Masoud Pezeshkian is ongedeerd en in veiligheid, volgens Iraanse media. Die melden meerdere raketinslagen bij Iraanse regeringsstellingen in de hoofdstad, inclusief ministeries en het presidentieel paleis.
Een Israëlische functionaris zei dat "alle leden van de regering van Iran doelwit van aanvallen zijn".
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zegt dat er mogelijk ook Amerikaanse doden en gewonden zullen vallen bij de aanvallen op Iran. "Dat gebeurt vaak in oorlog", zei Trump in een video op Truth Social, die dus rekening houdt met Iraanse vergeldingsaanvallen.
"Mijn regering neemt elke mogelijke stap om het risico voor Amerikaans personeel in de regio zo klein mogelijk te maken", zei Trump. "Desalniettemin, en ik zeg dit niet lichtvaardig: het Iraanse regime wil moorden. Dappere Amerikaanse militairen kunnen om het leven komen en er kunnen slachtoffers vallen."
Iran heeft al gezegd bezig te zijn met de voorbereidingen van tegenaanvallen. Die zouden gericht kunnen zijn op Amerikaanse militaire bases in het Midden-Oosten.
Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here I am.âŠ
Meerdere diploma's op zak, maar toch niet aan de bak. Lex (26) is een van de vele gemotiveerde en leergierige jongeren die thuiszit zonder werk. âIk wil mezelf nuttig maken en Ă©cht iets kunnen betekenen.â
Na weken van dreigementen hebben Israël en de Verenigde Staten zaterdagochtend aanvallen uitgevoerd op Iran.
/s3/static.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/28091204/IRAN-CRISIS-BLAST_73217916.jpg)
Israël heeft zaterdagochtend luchtaanvallen op Iran uitgevoerd. Met dit scenario werd de afgelopen week al rekening gehouden: functionarissen van de regering-Trump hadden gezegd dat dit de VS goed zou uitkomen.
/s3/static.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/28085101/280226BUI_2031932257_derk.jpg)