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Gulf leaders insist on crippling Iran's regime before ending the war.

Plus, as fighting drags on, we'll look at why Wall Street isn't freaking out, at least not yet.

So we see the shorter this conflict will be, the smaller the impact should be on the economy and the consumer.

But as of now, we're clearly having a stack stationary reset is growing by the day without a quick de-escalation. And bad news for the struggling U.S. Postal Service as Amazon plans to take its business elsewhere. It's Wednesday, March 18th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Gulf officials say they want the U.S. to keep up the fight against Iran in order to render it incapable of future attacks, a major pivot from a region that once courted Tehran.

Speaking to the journal, Emirati and Qatari officials described Iran as the belligerent party, citing its attacks on infrastructure and civilian targets, while another senior

Gulf officials said the only acceptable outcome of the war would be in Iran so enfeebled that it could never

imperil its neighbors again. Iranian leaders in recent days have said they'd only accept a ceasefire

with the U.S. and Israel if the country received reparations and ironclad guarantees against future

attacks. Meanwhile, Iran struck central Israel with missiles overnight,

causing heavy damage and killing two people, raising the death toll in Israel since the start of the war

to at least 14. And authorities in Iraq report that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad suffered a fresh

attack without providing more details. The compound was hit by a missile over

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