Until three weeks ago, few people had heard of Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia. There was no entry in any counter-terrorism database, no Telegram channel, no social media footprint and no history.
But on Monday, the group, which has links to Iran’s network of proxies, and whose name translates as “Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right”, circulated footage of burning ambulances outside a synagogue in London, with its logo on Telegram.
It appears to be its latest strike.
On 5 March, a post appeared on the X account of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, managed by his staff after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 28 February. The tweet featured a stark piece of propaganda: a gleaming, oversized missile arcing across the sky as a city below is engulfed in flames. The caption read: “Khorramshahr moments are on the horizon.”
The Khorramshahr missile, Iran’s most advanced ballistic missile, is believed to be capable of carrying a cluster warhead dispersing up to 80 submunitions. Since that post, it has come to loom large in Israeli threat assessments, a persistent concern for a country equipped with a multi-layered missile defence system that is widely regarded as the world’s most sophisticated.
The latest attack using cluster munitions occurred on Sunday, when an Iranian ballistic missile struck central Israel, injuring 15 people.
Security agencies and the police believe Iran could be behind the arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer service.
The agencies have not ruled out Tehran’s involvement in the attacks, in which four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire in Golders Green, north London. They are understood to be keeping an open mind about the attack, which is being treated as a hate crime. No one was injured.
BREAKING 🔴🔴
An IRGC terror group in the UK, called Ashab al-Yamin takes responsibility for torching 4 ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer EMT services in Golders Green, London last night.
The terrorists are on the loose.
The UK is dealing with a serious problem. pic.twitter.com/z728w4R17d
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 23, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday that he and the top leader of Iran could control the Strait of Hormuz if a deal to end the war is reached.
Trump told CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins that the strait could be “jointly controlled” by the United States and Iran. “Maybe me? Maybe me. Me and the ayatollah, whoever the ayatollah is,” he said when asked who specifically would be in control of the body of water in this case.
U.S. forces continue to eliminate the Iranian regime’s one-way attack drone capabilities, which they’ve used to indiscriminately target civilians throughout the region. pic.twitter.com/AbdLMmtoei
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 22, 2026
Hmmm
Iran denies direct talks with the U.S. and calls President Trump postponing his deadline a bid to cut energy costs. https://t.co/dFzonlTmFA pic.twitter.com/hW7E0t3pQ2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 23, 2026
American military aircraft have been using Canadian airspace to refuel on their way to the Middle East, backed by a long-standing NORAD agreement that does not require the U.S. to ask permission from Canada to do so.
On March 12, between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. ET, two KC-135T Stratotankers – large American refuelling aircraft – were observed overhead by residents of Moose Factory, Ont., along with several other aircraft, the make and model of which could not be identified from images captured by a resident of the town.
h/t Mauser
President Trump announced Monday that the US will not attack any part of Iran’s power and energy infrastructure for five days after Washington and Tehran engaged in “very good and productive talks” over the weekend about ending the three-week-old war.
“I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.
Most of the world’s media including in the U.S is now stating or implying that the U.S. and Israel leapt impetuously into war with Iran, have blundered, and that the world may be on the verge of a terrible economic crisis, and a much wider and “forever” war. The biases of Al Jazeera and the Guardian, of the international leftist media generally, and the spigots of media Trump-hate in the United States are all well-known and drearily predictable. But many media outlets and commentators from whom we had a right to expect better have gleefully leapt into this trap like perspiring children jumping into a lake on a hot summer day.
Khosro Isfahani, the research director for the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), described Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtada Khomenei, in a rather unflattering manner.
Tehran has said it will “irreversibly destroy” essential infrastructure across the Middle East if the US attacks its energy sites, hours after Donald Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants unless the strait of Hormuz was opened within two days.
As Iranian missiles struck two southern Israeli cities overnight, injuring dozens of people and shattering apartment buildings, the developments signalled a dangerous potential escalation of the war in the Middle East, which is now in its fourth week.
"Iran's capabilities are declining…" – Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM Commander pic.twitter.com/FC3TgpEGpJ
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 21, 2026
REMEMBER: Inside Iran’s Evin Prison, the regime still targets political prisoners, journalists, and protesters.
This is the same Islamic Republic that is being crushed by Israel. pic.twitter.com/ePpZmuho7R
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) March 20, 2026
Two missiles launched by Iran at a British military base in Diego Garcia — believed to be the furthest Iran has fired — were a warning message to Europe, diplomatic and intelligence sources have told The Sunday Times.
Sir Keir Starmer condemned Iran for “lashing out” after Tehran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles towards Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean located roughly as far from Iran as London or Paris.
❗️The Iranian terrorist regime launched a long-range missile for the first time since the start of Operation Roaring Lion that could reach a distance of ~4,000 km.
During Operation Rising Lion in June 2025, the IDF revealed that the Iranian regime has intentions to develop… pic.twitter.com/iliERIu2hV
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 21, 2026
A massive air strike by Israeli-US forces has hit an Iranian airbase, triggering a huge explosion which blew an ammunition store sky high.
The hit appears to have taken place at the Vahdati Air Base in the western Iranian city of Dezful, in Khuzestan province, on Saturday.
Video footage shows a huge ball of smoke rising above the edge of the city following an explosion
Scenes from Dezful in western Iran show massive explosions and fires after reported U.S. and Israeli strikes targeted an ammunition depot. The blasts triggered multiple secondary detonations as stored munitions ignited.#Iran #Dezful #Airstrike #USMilitary #Israel pic.twitter.com/z8GQJerEAY
— DefenceMedia (@Defencemedia0) March 21, 2026
Alternate headline: Iran Lied. Again.
That may not qualify as breaking news, since the Iranian regime has lied about practically all of its threats to the region and beyond. The theocratic-military junta has lied for 47 years about its sponsorship of terrorism, and they lied over and over again about their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Those lies got exposed over and over again, and yet leaders in Europe and the US kept insisting that the regime could become a trustworthy partner in non-proliferation talks.
What has taken place in recent weeks is nothing short of historic. For decades, the Iranian regime and its proxies, including Hamas, have operated with a sense of impunity. For decades, Iran’s rulers have expanded their regional influence, armed their proxy militias, threatened their neighbors, and steadily advanced their weapons or mass destruction programs. While various countries imposed sanctions and Israel and the United States occasionally conducted limited military responses, no large-scale effort was ever undertaken to fundamentally weaken the political and military power deep inside Iran. That reality has now changed dramatically.
Now, for the first time, both the Iranian regime and Hamas have experienced direct and sustained military campaigns at a scale they had long assumed would never occur.
Not a bad thing to wish for.
More than 20 nations spanning from Asia to Europe to the Gulf have expressed a “readiness to contribute” to the effort of opening up the Strait of Hormuz amid threats to ships by the Islamist regime in Iran.
In a joint statement released on Saturday morning, the nations of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom condemned in the “strongest terms” the recent attacks by Iran against unarmed, civilian shipping vessels, its attacks on oil and gas infrastructure throughout the Gulf, and its move to shut down traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
An Iranian man has been arrested after he tried to get in to the naval base where Britain’s four nuclear submarines are based, The Times has been told.
The individual, 34, accompanied by a female of unknown nationality, was in a vehicle when he approached the gate at HM Naval Base Clyde, known as Faslane, on Thursday.
