Spain will not allow the United States to use the Rota and Moron military bases for operations against Iran. This was stated by the country's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez. According to him, the bases, which are jointly operated by the United States and Spain, but remain under Spanish sovereignty, will not be involved in the military operation.

The oil tanker Stena Imperative (IMO: 9666077) was attacked in the port of Bahrain by unknown shells. This was reported by Reuters, citing sources in the field of maritime security. The ship came under attack early on Monday, March 2. At the time of the attack, it was docked in the port of Bahrain and remains there to this day, according to data from the ship tracking service Marine Traffic. It is clarified that after the strikes a fire started on the ship.

An international group of researchers from Greece, Spain and the United States published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports that can confirm the hypothesis that participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece used a psychedelic drug - and could have prepared it from the simplest means at hand. For almost two thousand years, one of the main religious rituals of the ancient world was held in the city of Eleusis near Athens.

The US and Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. This was stated by Iran's representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Reza Najafi, writes Reuters. According to Najafi, the Natanz nuclear facility came under attack. He claims that the attack took place the day before, on Sunday, March 1. The United States and Israel, he said, hit Iran’s “peaceful, protected nuclear facilities.” There is no other confirmation of this information.

News The Insider March 2, 2026 The Anti-War Committee of Russia has been recognized as a terrorist movement and its activities are prohibited, the Supreme Court reported .

Moscow has designated the Antiwar Committee of Russia as a terrorist movement, and its activities have been banned nationwide, according to a report by the state-controlled news agency TASS citing the Russian Supreme Court.

News The Insider 1 March 2026 Доступно на русском Since Feb. 28, at least 1,000 civilian ships in the waters of the Persian Gulf have encountered navigation difficulties due to large-scale GPS disruptions. The development, picked up from maritime monitoring data and sharp “jumps” in the routes depicted on electronic maps, was shared with The Insider by analysts from the Starboard Maritime Intelligence service.

US President Donald Trump issued a statement on the progress of Operation Epic Fury, a large-scale military campaign against Iran. The speech was made at the Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House. Trump recalled that shortly before the start of the current operation, the United States “destroyed the Iranian nuclear program” during Operation Midnight Hammer. After that, he said, Iran was warned not to try to restore its nuclear infrastructure.

Daniyar Amangeldiev. Photo: Government of Kyrgyzstan Contents 1. What the FT reported 2. What Kyrgyzstan’s deputy prime minister says 3. Visit by the EU special representative Доступно на русском On Mar. 2, the Financial Times reported that Kyrgyzstan plans to take the European Union to court in the event that Brussels imposes sanctions on the country over its re-export of dual-use goods to Russia. The paper cited First Deputy Chairman of the Kyrgyz government Daniyar Amangeldiev.

Tehran will not negotiate with Washington. Secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani wrote about this on his Twitter page. “We will not negotiate with the United States,” his post said. Larijani's publication was a response to a report by The Wall Street Journal, which, citing sources, said that Ali Larijani had made an attempt to resume negotiations with the United States. The article was published on Sunday, March 1st.

China has publicly condemned the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian territory, stressing that the military operation lacked authorization from the UN Security Council and violated the fundamental principles of international law. Beijing also expressed support for the sovereignty of “all countries of the Persian Gulf,” including Iran.

On March 2, the FSB reported the detention of more than 200 people, both Russians and foreigners, in the so-called SIM box cases. It is alleged that since the beginning of September, the work of approximately 100 communication channels that Ukrainian intelligence services used to involve Russian residents “in sabotage and terrorist activities” has been suppressed. Detentions were carried out in 43 regions of the country.

News The Insider March 2, 2026 Photo: AP Photo/Hussein Malla Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced that he intends to limit Hezbollah to exclusively political activities, depriving the group of the ability to conduct military and security operations in the country. The head of government demanded that security forces stop any armed attacks from Lebanese soil, calling all extra-state activities of Hezbollah illegal.

A court in Almaty denied asylum to activist from St. Petersburg Yulia Emelyanova, who was arrested in Kazakhstan last September. The BBC reports this with reference to the Anti-War Committee, which is helping the activist. As the organization’s lawyer explained, formally Kazakhstan cannot yet extradite the Russian woman, since the court decision has not yet entered into legal force and Emelyanova’s defense intends to appeal it.

News The Insider March 2, 2026 Image: The Insider In the Middle East, the United States and Israel continue their joint operation against Iran. The Insider sums up the results of the third day of the war. Strikes against Hezbollah: mutual shelling between the group and Israel On the night of March 2, the Shiite group Hezbollah attacked Israel as revenge for the assassination of Ali Khamenei. Air raid sirens were heard in Haifa and other cities in the north of the country.