#IRAN FIRES BALLISTIC MISSILE TOWARD #TURKEY: Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Turkey on Monday, but it was intercepted by NATO air and missile defense systems over the country, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/world/middleeast/turkey-iranian-missile-nato.html

Good morning to readers. #Oil prices surged to $92 per barrel (+29% compared to pre-war).

Setare left #Iran for #Turkey days before the #war.
Now, she watches from afar as the places she loved are targeted by strikes, processing it through brief calls and broken Iranian internet. https://www.iranwar.news/p/hey-is-my-home-still-standing

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#CNN is publishing "Everyone is watching to see whether #Kurdish fighters will launch a ground offensive into Western #Iran"
Kurdish academic and poet #HawzhinAzeez, former co-director of #TheKurdishCenterofStudies answers
"Who are we? Let me tell you, #America! We are the #Kurds you betrayed in #Rojava, north-east #Syria, your anti- #ISIS coalition partners. You sold us to #Turkey in 2018, which annexed our Kurdish city of #Afrin for allied jihadist factions. Then again in 2019, when our cities of #SereKaniye and #GireSpi were handed over to Turkey for “security concerns,” even though not a single bullet from Rojava had been fired toward Turkey. And once more in 2026, when you handed us over to the former ISIS and #alQaeda Syrian regime under the extreme hardliner #alJolani. Thousands of us were massacred, ethnically cleansed, hunted street by street. Our women fighters were beheaded, their braids cut as war trophies by jihadist men.
We are the Kurds you betrayed in #Basur, northern #Iraq, who held a popular referendum in 2017, winning by 97% to separate from Iraq, a country that had ethnically cleansed and murdered us for years, only for our freedom to be denied. The Iraqi central government, encouraged by your condemnation of our referendum, attacked us and forcibly took over our Kurdish city of #Kirkuk.

#AZERBAIJAN DERAILS ALLEGED #IRANIAN SABOTAGE PLOT: Azerbaijan said it prevented several sabotage plots allegedly organized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including a plan to attack the Baku- #Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, a key oil route between #Europe and #Turkey. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/azerbaijan-says-it-foils-iranian-plots-including-plan-attack-major-pipeline-2026-03-07/

Today, there are 25 to 45 million #Kurdish people scattered around the world, located predominantly in the area between #Syria, #Turkey, #Iran and Iraq, where they’ve been subjected to nearly a century of persecution.

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#CNN is publishing "Everyone is watching to see whether #Kurdish fighters will launch a ground offensive into Western #Iran"
Kurdish academic and poet #HawzhinAzeez, former co-director of #TheKurdishCenterofStudies answers
"Who are we? Let me tell you, #America! We are the #Kurds you betrayed in #Rojava, north-east #Syria, your anti- #ISIS coalition partners. You sold us to #Turkey in 2018, which annexed our Kurdish city of #Afrin for allied jihadist factions. Then again in 2019, when our cities of #SereKaniye and #GireSpi were handed over to Turkey for “security concerns,” even though not a single bullet from Rojava had been fired toward Turkey. And once more in 2026, when you handed us over to the former ISIS and #alQaeda Syrian regime under the extreme hardliner #alJolani. Thousands of us were massacred, ethnically cleansed, hunted street by street. Our women fighters were beheaded, their braids cut as war trophies by jihadist men.
We are the Kurds you betrayed in #Basur, northern #Iraq, who held a popular referendum in 2017, winning by 97% to separate from Iraq, a country that had ethnically cleansed and murdered us for years, only for our freedom to be denied. The Iraqi central government, encouraged by your condemnation of our referendum, attacked us and forcibly took over our Kurdish city of #Kirkuk.