From the article:
“I want to present this as objectively as possible, but first, let me note that the framing of the story relies a lot on the typical media formula:

“NBC News spoke on the phone with a father who said his 8-year-old daughter, Zahra, was killed…” = Let’s end with a sad story of a random Iranian man so the audience really hates Trump.

“Verified by NBC News” = Trust me, bro.

“Adding evidence, experts say, than an American missile likely hit…” = We have no actual proof.

“…hit a compound once home to a military base” = This is a buried lede, please don’t pay attention to it.

“Weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis” = Here’s a left-leaning DC thinktank nerd to make our scant evidence seem more concrete than it is.

“4 other weapons experts, who agree” = Trust me bro, Part Dos.”

PLEASE see the entire article here…

This is a reasonable article that considers several possibilities. More than one thing can be true at the same time.

Update:

From Grok:

This is an Iranian Shahed-136 drone strike on fuel storage tanks at Oman’s Port of Salalah today (March 11, 2026). Video from a nearby ship shows the low-flying drone impacting, triggering a massive fireball and thick black smoke visible for miles.

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This may be a false flag attack. It makes no sense for Iran to hit this facility. It may also be a rogue attack by one of Iran’s 31 military provinces that now operate autonomously. As I said earlier, the face of warfare has changed and the cost of a drone can allow massive damage for a small cost.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slams the door shut for good:

“Negotiations with the Americans are over forever.. a bitter experience and betrayal after promises of no attack!”

It is not a wise decision to have insurance and reinsurance stocks at this time. Is it obvious that the AI chip sector will collapse if this war continues?

Trump listened to bad advice but he selected two real estate developers to negotiate with Iran.

So much for US intelligence on Iranian military capability. Hypersonic missiles and thousands of drones have changed the metrics for warfare.

This new paradigm should be the end of the military industrial complex. Maybe Trump will cancel his order for new Trump class battleships. Are you feeling Luckey?

Iran (Persia) is the birthplace for chess. The origins started in India but the game was refined in Persia. Unfortunately, it seems that our government was unaware of how to play chess with Iranians.

The term “checkmate” originates from the Persian phrase shāh māt (شاه مات).This phrase was used in the Persian version of chess (called chatrang or later shatranj) after the game traveled from India to Persia (modern Iran) around the 6th–7th centuries AD. It literally means “the king is helpless” (or “the king is defeated/stumped/frozen/at a loss”).

• Shāh (شاه) = “king” (the same root that gives us the English chess term “check”)
• Māt (مات) = a Persian adjective meaning “helpless,” “defeated,” “astonished,” or “left without escape”

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The concept of checkmate (putting the king in check with no legal escape) was already central to the game by the Persian period and carried over unchanged into modern chess. In the earliest Indian form (chaturanga), the goal was similar, but the specific Persian terminology stuck and spread worldwide along with the game.

This is one of the clearest etymological trails in chess history—almost every major chess term (rook, check, chess itself) also traces back to Persian/Arabic roots from that same era. So while chess as a game began in India, the language we still use to end a game (“Checkmate!”) was coined in Persia.