[IsraelTimes] IRGC threatens American colleges in Middle East, hits aluminum plants in UAE, Bahrain, in response to US-Israeli strikes; Iran targets southern Israel in overnight missile attacks
The US Department of Defense is preparing options for ground operations in Iran, which would fall short of a full-scale invasion but could involve thousands of troops and take weeks or months, The Washington Post reported late Saturday. According to the report, which cited unnamed American officials, US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
has not greenlit any of the plans yet.
The White House, asked for comment for the report, said the Pentagon works to give the president "maximum optionality," but that this "does not mean the President has made a decision."
According to the Post, the potential operations could see a mixture of special forces and conventional infantry sent to conduct extended raids into coastal areas near the Strait of Hormuz, including seizing islands controlled by the Islamic Theocratic Republic and holding them for an extended period of time.
Experts have warned that holding territory would put American soldiers in significantly more danger than they’ve faced so far in the war, which has already seen 13 US servicemembers killed in action, and more than 300 maimed.
The timeline of the potential operations was not entirely clear, with one source telling The Post that the objectives under consideration would take "weeks, not months" to achieve, while another estimated the operations could last "a couple of months."
Possibly responding to the report, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday: "The enemy publicly sends messages of negotiation and dialogue while secretly planning a ground attack."
In a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, he added: "Our men are waiting for the arrival of the American soldiers on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional allies once and for all."
The Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Sunday threatened to target US universities in the Middle East, after claiming US-Israeli strikes had destroyed two Iranian universities.
"If the US government wants its universities in the region to be free from retaliation... it must condemn the bombing of the universities in an official statement by 12 noon on Monday, March 30, Tehran time," said the statement published by Iranian media.
The statement added: "We advise all employees, professors, and students of American universities in the region and residents of their surrounding areas" stay a kilometer (0.6 miles) away from campuses.
Several US universities have campuses scattered throughout the Gulf region, such as Texas A&M University in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and New York University in the United Arab Emirates.
Strikes overnight Friday and into Saturday hit Tehran, including the university of science and technology in the northeast of the capital, damaging buildings but not causing any casualties, according to media reports.
Meanwhile,
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the regime continued its attacks on neighboring Arab states and Israel.
Two ballistic missile attacks targeting southern Israel after midnight set off warning sirens in the country, but no direct injuries were reported as a result of them. They came after the pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
group in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
on Saturday joined the war, firing missiles and a drone at Israel for the first time since October 2025.
The IRGC said Sunday it had launched missile and dronezaps on aluminum plants in Bahrain and the UAE over the weekend, targeting what it described as industries linked to the US military.
The Guards said the strikes were retaliation for a US-Israeli attack on Iranian industrial infrastructure launched from bases in Gulf states.
Aluminium Bahrain, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, said two employees were maimed in an Iranian strike targeting its facility on Saturday. The company, also known as Alba, said the workers suffered minor injuries.
Alba added that it was assessing the impact on operations and would provide updates when available. It gave no details on damage to the site.
Emirates Global Aluminium said Saturday that an Iranian attack inflicted significant damage on one of its sites in Abu Dhabi and maimed six employees, but that none of the injuries were life-threatening.
Earlier in the day, the Emirati defense ministry said it had intercepted a drone-and-missile attack and that falling debris had sparked two fires in the Khalifa industrial zone on the emirate’s coast.
Five Indian nationals were maimed, with "moderate to minor wounds," authorities said, later reporting a third fire in which a Pak man was also injured. All three fires were brought under control, the ministry added.
Attacks by pro-Iran groups in Iraq and Syria were also reported.
Interceptions and drone activity were heard for hours over the weekend across Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, including drones shot down while attempting to target the US consulate and nearby bases.
On Saturday, the residence of Nechirvan Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region of Iraq, was targeted, causing damage but no casualties.
The US condemned what it termed "despicable terrorist attacks," calling the attack on Barzani’s residence "a direct assault on Iraq’s illusory sovereignty, stability and unity."
Additionally, Syria foiled drone attacks launched from Iraqi territory that targeted its strategic al-Tanf military base, Syria’s state news agency reported on Saturday.
Israel launched its campaign against Iran, alongside the US, to degrade the Iranian regime’s military capabilities, distance threats posed by Iran — including its nuclear and ballistic missile programs — and "create the conditions" for the Iranian people to topple the regime, the military and other Israeli leaders have said.
Since the war began on February 28, 16 Israeli civilians and foreign nationals have been killed in Israel in Iranian ballistic missile attacks, along with four Paleostinians in the West Bank.
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