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President Trump says the war with Iran could last four to five weeks or longer.
“And moments ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters, "The U.S. is targeting”
the missile capabilities of a country that has been a nuclear threat." There would come a point where they have so many conventional missiles, so many drones, and it can inflict so much damage that no one can do anything about their nuclear program. That is what they were trying to do. This put themselves in a place of immunity, where the damage they can inflict on the region
would be so high that no one can do anything about their nuclear program or their nuclear ambitions. They are producing by some estimates over 100 of these missiles a month. Secretary Rubio was due to brief congressional leaders on the Iran war. NPR's Aabatrawi is in Dubai with a reaction from Gulf States that have been hit in Iranian
retaliatory strikes against U.S. partners in the region.
“The real thing to look out for is how long this goes on for? If according, as we've heard”
from some leaks from Israel or as we've heard Trump say that this could go on for weeks, if this goes on for weeks, there's no expectation that the Gulf countries are going to sit by Iberley and continue to have vital installations attacked and targeted in their economies brought to a standstill without taking some kind of action in response. And until now, we have not seen the Gulf countries go and respond militarily to Iran.
They've just been defending their airspace, but that could change, and if that changes, we're talking about a much bigger war. NPR's Aabatrawi, in the wake of the Russia Ukraine war, France is offering a station
its nuclear weapons across here for the first time in what President Manimal Krakhal's
a nuclear doctrine of forward deterrence here's NPR's own orbeard's league. At a nuclear submarine base off the coast of Brittany, McHolme pledged a new doctrine of
“forward deterrence that would involve deeper cooperation with seven other European”
countries, including Germany and Poland, McHolme offered to temporarily move nuclear warheads to allied European countries and pledged to increase the size of his country's arsenal. NPR's Aalner Beardsley reporting voters in North Carolina will head to the polls tomorrow for primary and one congressional race. There could indicate whether Democrats are unhappy with their party's approach in Congress,
Colin Campbell of WNC reports. In combat Congresswoman Valerie Fuci is facing a strong primary challenge in a deep blue district from Nida Alam, Alam is a Durham County commissioner who's backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, and she's calling for stronger opposition to Trump's immigration enforcement and middle-east policy. While Fuci wants to strip funding from ICE and reform the agency,
Alam wants to abolish it entirely. Both candidates have condemned the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. A newly formed outside group running ads for Alam wants to reduce military aid to Israel, and a new group connected to the artificial intelligence company andthropic is putting more than a
million dollars behind Fuci.
That's calling Campbell reporting. You're listening to NPR News. South Carolina's welcome home its native son, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, people are paying tribute at the state house where the late civil rights trailblazer lies in state before a church service. Chef Carolina Public Radio's Lewis Alfredo Garcia reports. People from all walks of life are making the trip to Columbia, South Carolina to find comfort in each other's presence and grief.
Charlie Tillman drove about 120 miles, but his back pain stops them from joining that hours long line to see Jackson. He says just being in the city was oddly comforting. It's about the same as when we heard that President Kennedy was assassinated when I was in school and Dr. Kang is like hot, breathtaking and hot. But I'm just glad I could make this event even not in 20-some mile drive. It was a joy and it's a joy to be here.
About this church service will cap off the day for NPR News. I'm Luis Alfredo Garcia in Columbia, South Carolina. Myanmar state-run media says the military junta has granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners, including those jailed or in-hiding for their political opposition. There was, however, no sign that former leader Onsen Succi would be released from confinement.
Milano Cortina is now preparing to hold the Paralympic Winter Games, which opens March 6, tomorrow Cortina dumpets a will host the symbolic moment when the Paralympic Flames from various routes converge to create a single flame ahead of the official opening. The Paralympic Games will draw more than 650 athletes competing in 79 metal events. I'm Lakshmi saying NPR News.
