War Diary Day 6: The war spreads sideways

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By the sixth day of the war, the conflict that Israel and the United States had initially framed as a concentrated campaign against Iran’s strategic infrastructure had started to assume a different character.

The airspace over Iran continued to be dominated by the US and Israel, and both sides were still trading missiles. But noticeably, the battlefield was quietly widening, and the war’s logic was shifting from decisive blows to cumulative pressure.

If the first five days were about shock and counter-shock, the sixth day looked increasingly like the deepening of an attrition contest. Events over the past 24 hours illustrated that shift with unusual clarity.

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A plume of smoke rises after a strike on Tehran on March 4, 2026. — AFP
A plume of smoke rises after a strike on Tehran on March 4, 2026. — AFP

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