March 26: Today’s News Squeezed
Canned fish operation
Reports from Iran claim that dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers were killed in Shiraz after opening canned fish. Canned fish has effectively become a deadly hazard in Iran.
Since last night, it is claimed that Israel has been dropping canned fish from the air as food supplies to IRGC ground forces, and anyone who handled these cans experienced explosions similar to the booby-trapped devices seen in Lebanon.
In Shiraz, the number of casualties is reported to be significant.
United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense: Today we intercepted 15 ballistic missiles and 11 drones that came from Iran. Since the beginning of the war, 372 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, and 1,826 drones have been launched towards us.
The IDF eliminated the senior leadership of the IRGC Navy
Overnight, the Israeli Air Force, acting on precise IDF and Navy intelligence, conducted a precise strike in Bandar Abbas in which Alireza Tangsiri, who had served as the commander of the IRGC Navy over the past eight years was eliminated.
Tangsiri served in several key positions within the IRGC Navy, during which he oversaw the regime’s activities and coordinated efforts between the Iranian military forces in the Persian Gulf area. Over the years, Tangsiri was responsible for attacks on oil tankers and commercial vessels and personally threatened the freedom of navigation and trade in the Strait of Hormuz and the international maritime domain.
Throughout Operation Roaring Lion, Tangsiri led efforts to close the Strait of Hormuz and advanced terror attacks in the maritime domain, one of the primary figures responsible for disrupting the global economy.
Additionally, Tangsiri had been subject to numerous international sanctions due to his direct involvement in carrying out terror attacks against vessels in international waters and in the transfer of air defense systems and UAVs to Russia and Syria.
Alongside Tangsiri, the IDF eliminated the Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate, Behnam Rezaei.
Rezaei served as the Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate for a number of years and constituted a central knowledge authority in maritime intelligence. As part of his role, Rezaei was responsible for intelligence collection on regional countries and led cooperation with various intelligence organizations.
The elimination of the IRGC Navy senior leadership adds to the list of dozens of Iranian regime commanders who have been eliminated, and constitutes an additional significant blow to the command-and-control arrays of the IRGC and its abilities to orchestrate terror activities in the maritime domain against countries in the region.
10.30
The United Arab Emirates reports two dead and three wounded in an Iranian missile attack this morning.
Abu Dhabi has again threatened to respond to the ongoing Iranian aggression.
📝Prepare your sleigh in summer📝
Europeans are being prepared for rationed shortages. EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen asked EU member state leaders to start pumping gas into storage earlier, and at the same time lower the target reserve level to 80%. In plain terms, Brussels does not expect a normal season.
Meanwhile, Euro-bureaucrats justify this by saying that it will be even harder to fill storage later: expensive and very nerve-wracking. So it would be possible to stock up in advance rather than wait for summer competition for LNG and possible price spikes.
However, such statements essentially legalize undersupply so as not to explain later why the market spiraled into price hysteria. In other words, the EU enters the new injection season from a position of preemptive damage.
The reason was strikes on Qatari LNG facilities: according to some reports, the damage disabled about 17% of Qatar’s export capacity, and repairs could take up to five years. For Europe, this is dangerous not so much from the direct loss of “its” gas, but from the rise in price of all global LNG, for which it will have to compete with Asia.
But the problem, of course, is broader. Europeans remain a net energy importer and continue to depend on the global market, where any major disruption instantly turns into price increases, competition for cargo, and trader nervousness. That is, all of the EU’s “energy independence” in practice means only a more expensive form of dependence — now on global spot market chaos.
Greece reaffirms constitutionality of gay marriage and adoption despite Orthodox Church stance
Greece’s Council of State has reaffirmed the constitutionality of same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples, ruling explicitly that the Orthodox Church’s traditions on marriage remain unaffected by the law.
The Full Bench of the Council of State issued Decision 392/2026 on March 20, upholding Law 5089/2024, which legalized same-sex civil marriage in Greece. The court ruled by majority—with six justices dissenting—that the law is in accordance with the Greek Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights, and EU law,
Law 5089/2024 was originally passed in February 2024 despite strong opposition from the Greek Orthodox Church and broad segments of the population, making Greece the first Orthodox country to legalize same-sex marriage. The Council of State had previously affirmed the law’s constitutionality in May 2025.
In its latest ruling, the court addressed the relationship between civil marriage and the Orthodox Church directly, stating that the extension of civil marriage to same-sex persons “does not in any way restrict or affect the right of persons of different sexes to marry—civilly or religiously—and to form a family in the traditional sense.”
The court further noted that the rules and traditions of the Orthodox Christian Church regarding the solemnization of marriage and the formation of family are not affected by the law, and that observance of those traditions “continues to rest upon the free compliance of faithful Orthodox Christian citizens.”
On adoption, the court ruled that granting same-sex married couples the right to adopt does not violate the constitutional protection of childhood or the best interests of the child, since adoption requests are subject to the same procedures—including social services review and court approval—that apply to opposite-sex couples.
🔗 https://orthochristian.com/176481.html