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For now, links to SIX-plus reports, analyses, commentary, interviews, and summaries (10 or a dozen): from the Associated Press and National Public Radio; others along with are accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. (Scroll down for IRAN 3-27-26. Scroll up for today’s MEDIA so far.) — MCM

* Among the news organizations with frequent war updates, photos and occasionally maps are Al Jazeera, the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, the Cradle, and Middle East Monitor: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. AP and El País reports in Spanish are HERE and HERE. *

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Iran-backed Houthis claim first missile launch on Israel as war in the Mideast intensifies, by Samy Magdy Aamer Madhani and Jon Gambrell | AP  DUBAI — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed a missile launch toward Israel early today, their first since the war in the Middle East started. The Israeli military said it intercepted the projectile. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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U.S.-Iran relations specialist explains the power structure in Iran. Scott Simon of NPR speaks with Sina Toossi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, about the power structure in Iran, and how things have changed within it since the start of the war. Click HERE later to listen and, still later, read; and HERE for all five Iran war-related reports on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.”

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FROM MARCH 27  Israel hits Iranian nuke facilities and Tehran strikes base in Saudi Arabia, wounding U.S. troops, by Farnoush Amiri,Jon Gambrell and Konstantin Toropin | AP  DUBAI — Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities on Friday. Iran vowed to retaliate and struck a base in Saudi Arabia, wounding U.S. service members and damaging planes. In a possible breakthrough in the war, however, Tehran will allow humanitarian aid and agricultural shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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FROM MARCH 27  Rubio pushes postwar plan for Strait of Hormuz after meeting G7 allies skeptical about Iran strategy, by Matthew Lee and Samuel Petrequin | AP  VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries showed divisions with the United States over the Iran war but agreed Friday during a meeting in France to call for an immediate halt to attacks against civilians and urge the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 27  Analysis: 1 month into war, Iran is using insurgent tactics and holding the world economy hostage, by Jon Gambrell | AP  DUBAI — One month into their war with Iran, the United States and Israel find themselves confronting an opponent that fights more like an insurgency than a nation — using increasingly limited resources to inflict maximum pain. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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FROM MARCH 27  Regional reflections on one month of war. Reported by Emily Feng, Lauren Frayer, Aya Batrawy and Daniel Estrin | NPR  One month into the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran, we turn to our correspondents across the region to assess the conflict’s impact.  Click HERE to listen and, later, read; and HERE for links to all three Iran war-related reports Friday from NPR’s “All Things Considered” program.

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TO BE CONTINUED