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On 26 Mar 2026, Israel executed a region-wide airstrike wave hitting Iranian infrastructure around Isfahan just hours after Washington sent Tehran a back-channel 15-point cease-fire plan and threatened to “unleash hell” if rejected, while Iran publicly rebuffed any talks.
On 24 Mar 2026 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to smash as much of Iran’s arms industry as possible within 48 hours, immediately after learning Washington had delivered a 15-point cease-fire proposal to Tehran that could freeze the war at any moment.
On 25 March 2026, President Trump claimed Tehran delivered a high-value oil-and-gas concession and vowed never to pursue nuclear weapons, leading Washington and Jerusalem to suspend targeting of two senior Iranian officials for a five-day negotiating window.
On 24 Mar 2026, President Trump postponed strikes on Iran’s power grid and asserted “productive” negotiations were underway, while Tehran denied talks and fired a dozen missile waves at Israel and Gulf targets.
On 24 Mar 2026, Defence Minister Israel Katz declared that Israeli troops will permanently control territory up to Lebanon’s Litani River, converting almost 10 % of Lebanon into a buffer zone.
On 23 Mar 2026, President Trump halted planned U.S. attacks on Iranian power and energy sites and gave negotiators exactly five days to reach a deal after declaring “major points of agreement” with unnamed Iranian interlocutors.
Between 22–23 March 2026 the Israeli Air Force demolished at least one more key bridge over Lebanon’s Litani River and, hours later, the IDF chief publicly confirmed plans to broaden ground operations against Hezbollah within days, marking a decisive shift from cross-border skirmishes to a planned invasion north of the river.
In oral arguments on 23 Mar 2026, a clear conservative bloc on the Court doubted Mississippi’s five-day deadline for receiving mailed ballots, hinting at a forthcoming ruling that could bar late-arriving ballots nationwide before the 2026 midterms.
Late 21–22 Mar 2026, Iranian ballistic missiles pierced Israel’s air-defence umbrella for the first time, slamming into the southern towns of Dimona and Arad, injuring over a hundred civilians and triggering a U.S. threat to bomb Iran’s power grid unless the Strait of Hormuz is reopened within 48 hours.
Between Mar 21–22 2026, President Donald Trump warned he will bomb Iran’s major power plants within 48 hours if the Strait of Hormuz is not “fully open,” prompting Tehran to vow a total closure of the chokepoint and retaliation against Gulf energy and desalination sites.
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