Hamas given 90 days to hand over rocket launchers, missiles in latest Gaza disarmament plan

 Hamas has 90 days to hand over its heavy weaponry and maps to its sprawling underground terror tunnels, a new disarmament proposal delivered by Gaza cease-fire mediators show.

The proposal requires all terrorist groups in Gaza, which include Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other armed outfits, to completely disarm over the next several months, The Times of Israel reported.

Hamas received the disarmament framework in Cairo at a meeting headed by President Trump’s Board of Peace Gaza representative, Nickolay Mladenov, this month.

Hamas has 90 days to surrender its weapons according to a disarmament plan delivered by cease-fire mediators.AP

The proposal also creates a gun-buyback program, which could grant immunity to terrorists who willingly hand over their firearms.

“[The disarmament plan] can unlock reconstruction, breathe life into communities, and bring closer to unity and a negotiated resolution of the Palestinian question,” Mladenov said Thursday.

Mladenov went on to say that rebuilding Gaza hinges on “full decommissioning by Hamas and every armed group, with no exceptions and no carve-outs.”

The terror group has reportedly shown flexibility on relinquishing its heavy weaponry — such as rocket launchers and missiles — but has refused to negotiate on delivering its guns, which Hamas says it needs for self-defense.

Iran and Hamas signed on to Trump’s 20-point cease-fire plan in October 2025, which ended the war in Gaza. The plan calls for Hamas to disarm as Israeli forces gradually withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

The plan calls for all heavy weaponry to be delivered in three months.REUTERS

A non-partisan technocratic government overseen by the Board of Peace would govern the strip, and an International Stabilization Force would replace IDF troops in the areas they withdraw from.

The weapons handover would go region by region, beginning in Southern Gaza, with reconstruction in the strip advancing as the area becomes demilitarized.

The proposal also calls for Israel to lift caps on humanitarian aid that can enter Gaza.

Israel has long demanded that Hamas turn over all of its weaponry at once, but mediating countries concluded that the demand wasn’t realistic.

Israeli officials did not object to the proposal, but there is widespread skepticism that Hamas — the terror group responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7, 2023 attacks — would be willing to surrender its weapons.

Hamas is expected to respond to the proposal as early as next week.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/21/world-news/hamas-given-90-days-to-hand-over-rocket-launchers-missiles-in-latest-gaza-disarmament-plan/

Iran's First Use Of ICBMs Raises Serious Questions About Remaining Arsenal

 In a startling move that has military experts questioning their assumptions about Iranian capabilities, Iran attempted to hit the joint UK-US base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). While US officials assured the Wall Street Journal that the base was unscathed, the Iranian strike aimed at a target roughly 4,000 kilometers from Iran suggests that the range of Iran's retaliatory capacity could be well beyond previous external estimates and claims made by Iran. 

According to two officials who gave the Journal a Friday-night scoop on the story, one missile had a mid-flight malfunction, while the other was engaged by an SM-3 interceptor missile fired from a US Navy vessel. It's not clear, however, if that interceptor actually hit its target. Nor does the report indicate when the strike was attempted. 

While it's home to a joint base, Diego Garcia is a British Overseas Territory. After the bombs started falling on Iran on Feb. 28, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer initially refused to allow the United States to use Diego Garcia and other UK bases in the campaign against Iran. He soon folded, announcing that the bases could be used for so-called "defensive" operations focused on hitting Iranian missile launchers targeting UK interests. On Friday, the permission was expanded to include supporting strikes on Iranian assets targeting the Strait of Hormuz. Also on Friday, Iran warned that the accommodation of US military maneuvering makes the UK a "participant in aggression," adding that Iran "reserve[s] our inherent right to defend the country's sovereignty and independence."

Last month -- three days before US-Israeli surprise attack -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that Iran had, of its own volition, "deliberately limited" the range of its ballistic missiles to 2,000 kilometers, or 1,243 miles. On the same day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran was "certainly trying to achieve intercontinental ballistic missiles" and is "headed in the pathway to one day being able to develop weapons that can reach the continental US.” 

Officials say one of the Iranian IRBMs was engaged by an SM-3 interceptor, like this one being fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (Navy photo)

There's far more to reaching the ICBM threshold than just packing more propellant into a rocket. Because ICBM warheads spend part of their trajectory traveling in space, they require the engineering of a heat-shielded reentry vehicle, along with more sophisticated guidance technology. Last May, the Defense Intelligence Agency predicted that, if it chose to, Iran could have upwards of 60 ICBMs by 2035. “There’s a huge gap, I think, between where they are now and their ability to have anything that reaches the United States,” Defense Priorities' Rosemary Kelanic told the Journal. 

For now, the bigger question is what kind of ballistic missile technology the Iranians are already packing. The Israeli Alma Research and Education Center had previously pegged Iran's maximum range at 3,000 kilometers. This apparent debut of Iran's IRBMs raises wider concerns than just Diego Garcia: If Iran can actually reach that island, it implies Iran could also take shots at targets as far away as Central Europe or Scandinavia.  

Earlier this month, Iran's Space Research Center in Tehran was blown up in an Israeli-claimed strike. The IDF said the facility "contained strategic laboratories used for research and development of military satellites for various purposes, including surveillance, targeting, and directing fire toward targets across the Middle East.”

Diego Garcia had already been in the ZeroHedge headlines before this new round of warfare on Iran started on Feb 28. President Trump has sounded alarms about the UK losing its grip on the island. Last year, the UK agreed to surrender sovereignty over Diego Garcia and the entire Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, with the UK then taking out a 99-year lease of Diego Garcia. In January, Trump called the transaction an "act of total weakness," apparently reneging on his supposed support -- Rubio last year said Trump "expressed his support for this monumental achievement." 

An undated US Navy photo of Diego Garcia, an atoll that has about 10 square miles of dry land 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-fires-ballistic-missiles-far-diego-garcia-military-base

'Iran said to have 6 conditions to end war'

 An unnamed senior Iranian security official told Al Mayadeen that Tehran has six conditions for ending the conflict with the United States and Israel.

The official stated that Iran's first demand is a guarantee that the war would not resume, followed by a demand for the closure of US bases in the Middle East. The US and Israel would also have to pay reparations and end conflict on all fronts across the region, including those against pro-Iranian militias. Furthermore, Iran demanded a new legal regime in the Strait of Hormuz and "hostile elements" from the media to be handed over to its authorities.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump claimed Tehran wants to make a deal, but he does not.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-said-to-have-6-conditions-to-end-war/65921416

'Iran to hit US energy sites, plants if its own attacked'

 The Iranian army spokesperson warned that Iran would retaliate against all US and Israeli energy infrastructure across the Middle East, including information technology systems and desalination plants, shortly after US President Donald Trump's threat to "obliterate" Iranian power plants.

Trump gave Tehran an ultimatum to lift the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, or the US would target Iran's largest power plant first. The latest turn of events seems to indicate a sharp escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. It comes shortly after Iran launched missile attacks on Israel's infrastructure, including a missile strike in the vicinity of the Dimona nuclear research center.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-to-hit-US-energy-sites-plants-if-its-own-attacked/65921418

Cuba hit by new nation-wide power outage

 Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines announced that the national electric system has been disconnected. It is the second nationwide outage on the island in the last seven days.

The ministry stated emergency protocols were activated to deal with the situation. Cuba has faced rolling blackouts and an acute fuel shortage after the US tightened its energy blockade of the island nation to exert pressure on the government.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Cuba-hit-by-new-nation-wide-power-outage/65921419

"Complete Other Alias": Rep. Luna Drops Clinton-Epstein Bombshell

 by Steve Watson via modernity.news,

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna appeared on Bill Maher’s show and confirmed what the Epstein document dumps have long hinted at: the former president wasn’t just flying on the Lolita Express — he was operating under an entirely different identity in the files.

This revelation lands as the House Oversight Committee presses forward with its investigation, following the Justice Department’s release of millions of pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed by President Trump. Lawmakers and victims are still pushing for the remaining 2.5 million documents that remain hidden or heavily redacted, according to recent reporting.

Bill Clinton’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein runs deep and documented. The former president flew on Epstein’s private jet multiple times in the early 2000s, often for Clinton Foundation-related trips, and maintained social ties with both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell long after red flags emerged. He has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes or visits to the island.

Via @VigilantFox

Luna laid it out plainly during the interview. When Maher questioned bringing Hillary in, asking, “You have Hillary Clinton come in? This is like three gazillion pages of men behaving badly. And the witness you want is a woman?”

Luna shot back: “She was issued a bipartisan subpoena, meaning the Democrats wanted her in, too. Cause Bill Clinton was all over those logs.”

She continued: “We can get at the whole Jeffrey Epstein ties because I actually talked to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton specifically about that, presenting them with the actual document that showed that he had a COMPLETE OTHER ALIAS.”

Maher responded: “You get a lot of information that we don’t all have.”

Luna replied: “I’m happy to come back.”

Maher closed: “We want you. I appreciate it.”

What was Bill Clinton doing with another alias? The question hangs heavy. In the files of a convicted child sex trafficker, a second identity isn’t a coincidence — it’s a red flag screaming for answers.

This isn’t the first time the Clintons have scrambled to contain the Epstein fallout. Bill Clinton’s chief of staff raged after half-naked photos of the former president surfaced in the latest Epstein drop.

Back in 2024, reports also revealed Clinton allegedly threatened Vanity Fair to kill articles about his “good friend” Jeffrey Epstein.

The pattern is clear: suppression, denial, and now — an alias. While the Clintons sat for depositions earlier this year, insisting they saw nothing wrong, Luna’s committee work keeps peeling back layers the deep state hoped would stay buried.

The American people are watching. The files don’t lie, and neither do the subpoenas. Every new detail like this alias proves why the fight for real accountability matters — because when the powerful hide behind fake names in pedophile networks, it’s not just scandal. It’s a warning that the old guard still thinks the rules don’t apply.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/complete-other-alias-rep-luna-drops-clinton-epstein-bombshell

Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office

 Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei.

What's clear is that the new, younger Khamenei - who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn't been seen in any public way, not even on TV, throughout the war. There have not so much as been official recent images of him circulated.

AFP/Getty Images

This has raised obvious questions on the degree to which the Ayatollah is actually running the country and the wartime response, also after national security official Ali Larijani was killed. Larijani had clearly been the interim public face of the Islamic Republic, before his death less than a mere week ago (reportedly on March 17).

In the meantime The Wall Street Journal on Saturday writes that Iran is filling the gap of the Ayatollah's public absence with AI and voice-overs:

In his first, fiery address to the Iranian nation on March 12, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to “avenge the blood of our martyrs” and to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. That message of defiance wasn’t delivered by Khamenei himself: It was read out on state television by a female news anchor.

Since then, the mystery surrounding Khamenei’s whereabouts and well-being has only deepened. Khanenei hasn’t appeared in public, nor has the Iranian government issued new images of him or even recordings of his voice.

His 86-year old father did not appear to have been in hiding at all when he was slain by airstrike on the very first day of Operation Epic Fury.

It could be that the younger Khamenei is directing the war from a much more secure and hidden setting, for example a deep underground bunker - or in a remote part of the country. Axios newly reports:

The CIA, Mossad and other intelligence agencies around the world were watching during Nowruz on Friday to see whether Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei would follow his father's tradition and give a new year's address.

The intrigue: When the holiday passed with only a written statement from Mojtaba, the mystery around his physical condition, whereabouts and role in Iran's war effort deepened.

As for who is really at the helm of the Iranian state, there's little doubt that the elite IRGC is now largely driving the response. 

To some degree, amid ongoing reports of assassinations by aerial bombing of a slew of top military leaders, it doesn't ultimately matter who precisely is in charge. Iranian institutions have deep benches, in the sense that especially high military officials are replaceable. 

The new Ayatollah has not been seen as Netanyahu makes virtual or AI appearances. Both are playing it safe. Targeted assassination is the new name of the game. A terrible world has come into being.

— Poli-tea 🫖 (@MirzaMahan) March 21, 2026

At the same time, Tehran has signaled it is ready for a 'long war' - and will keep fighting while imposing a high cost on its attackers. This means it doesn't have to 'win' in a conventional sense, but just has to survive and exact pain. 

The WSJ writes, "Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that entrenches Tehran’s dominance of Middle East energy resources for decades to come."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/phantom-ayatollah-irans-new-supreme-leader-has-never-been-seen-taking-office