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By Gold & Geopolitics - March 4, 2026

More of the same today. More radars gone. More drones hunted. More Hezbollah rockets. More missiles. More timelines extended. More narrative control.

Just another Wednesday in the New Normal.

Hegseth said eight weeks now. Four days became four weeks became eight weeks. At this rate we hit “whatever it takes” by Friday. (Draghi’s still waiting on his commission.)

Tehran took the heaviest bombardment yet overnight. Strikes across the city through the early hours – residential neighbourhoods, police stations, universities, Basij headquarters. Mehrabad Airport hit. Yazd and Tabriz struck. Isfahan and Karaj again. The IDF says 5,000 airstrikes since day one across 1,600 sorties. Iranian state media puts the death toll at 1,045.

That is what bombing blind looks like when it meets a population center.

Let’s go for the eyes. Or what’s left of them.

Two radars destroyed in Bahrain. Three radomes at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. One THAAD radar in the UAE. Another in Jordan. The billion-dollar early warning system in Qatar I wrote about on day one. And satellite imagery confirmed yet another THAAD kill in Saudi Arabia today. Two more overnight – Abu Dhabi and a Jordanian airbase.

Running tally: over $3.4 billion in ground-based sensors. *Poof*

The IRGC said they did all of this. All confirmed now. By satellite. By the New York Times. By everyone except CENTCOM, who are busy tweeting videos of destroyed trucks. Five days in and I trust the IRGC’s damage assessments more than CENTCOM’s. I need a drink.

Today the IRGC announced they struck the Qatar radar. Again. I guess they wanted to make sure that the corpse stayed dead?

Now, once the ground radars go dark, you go after the airborne eyes. The surveillance drones that loiter over Iran feeding targeting data to strike packages. Yesterday I wrote about the Hermes 900s and Herons being picked off. Today the count is 26 drones claimed downed. But the more interesting story is the one the IRGC captured intact. Armed. Not shot down. Landed under Iranian control with its weapons and electronics. That is not a kill. That is a gift basket with a bow on it.

Radars blind. Drones hunted. And the targets themselves?

Oh. This is where it gets good . . .

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