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President Trump told reporters as he left the White House that he was rejecting Iran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days and restart talks, saying the U.S. has total control of the strait and that 29 ships came out overnight.
Dozens of delegations walked out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the General Assembly podium, and he called those leaving "moral cowards." He said Israel and the United States had crushed Iran's army, navy, air force and nuclear facilities, thanked President Trump and said Israel would continue to defend itself.
One crew member, an Indian national, was killed when the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier MV Cape Dao was attacked 2.5 nautical miles off Oman's Musandam peninsula, starting a fire in the engine room; an Omani navy ship evacuated 27 crew. No one claimed responsibility, and an Indian seafarers' union said two torpedoes hit the ship.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly that "the nuclear weapon is in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran," said Iran seeks no nuclear weapon but will accept no limits on peaceful nuclear technology, and held up photos of children killed in the Feb. 28 strike on a school in Minab. A U.S. delegate walked out during the speech, a day after Trump threatened to "annihilate" Iran.
In his General Assembly address, Trump said he had "a big decision to make": a deal letting Iran rebuild, or to "annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly," and predicted a deal "right after the election" on Nov. 3. Iran's army general staff and the IRGC's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters called the threats "domestic propaganda."
The House approved a War Powers Resolution to halt military action against Iran without congressional authorisation by 220 to 204, with seven Republicans joining Democrats, up from four in earlier votes, a day after the CBO put the war's cost at more than $38 billion.
Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei wrote on X: 'Don't get distracted by the U.S. president's mixed signals... The stakes around oil and the straits have changed. Damage control won't stop what's coming. No talks until Iran's conditions are met. Period!'
Trump posted that the US is producing more 'exquisite and elite weapons' than at any time in its history, with Patriots, THAAD, Tomahawks and Standard Missiles a primary focus, delivered 'on a daily basis' to US forces in the Middle East, and that defence factories are running 24/7.
President Joseph Aoun, with army commander Gen. Rodolphe Haykal, made an unannounced visit to Nabatieh and Zawtar al-Gharbiya near the Ali al-Taher ridge, pledging to secure an Israeli withdrawal and rebuild the south and telling residents the state would meet their needs 'so that you stay here.'
Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry said it had suspended the East-West pipeline as a precaution after the line was 'subjected to multiple attacks' on Thursday that injured several people; US officials said pump stations were hit. The pipeline carries crude to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, the kingdom's main export route while Hormuz is closed.
Houthi fighters swept south from Mocha through Dhubab and Murad, the last coastal town in government hands, and advanced onto Perim (Mayyun) Island at the mouth of the Bab al-Mandeb, Reuters reported citing four government sources. A government military official said 'everything that was under our control on the western coast has fallen.'
The IDF said it used more than 1,100 tons of explosives to destroy two tunnels running over 2 km beneath the Ali al-Taher ridge near Nabatieh, which it called the nerve center of Hezbollah's Badr division; the USGS recorded the blast as a magnitude 4.1 tremor. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said it completed Israel's security zone in southern Lebanon.
Houthi forces took control of the Red Sea city of Mocha as government-aligned troops pulled back, Reuters reported citing three Yemeni government sources; AFP witnesses saw fighters entering the city, and a military source said the Houthis also seized Zuqar Island in the southern Red Sea.
The IAEA Board of Governors passed a US, British, French and German resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council over its refusal to allow inspections, by 23 votes to 3 with 8 abstentions; Russia, China and Niger voted against. It was the first such referral in 20 years; Iran's UN mission called it a 'biased, political resolution' and Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said it could not 'achieve anything in the Security Council.'
Brent crossed $100 a barrel early Wednesday for the first time since July 24, reaching $100.07 by 07:21 GMT, and settled up 3.4% at $101.21, its highest close since May 22; WTI settled at $96.05. Goldman Sachs said intensifying attacks on shipping raised the risk of oil above $120.
Iran fired ballistic missiles at US forces at Jordan's al-Azraq (Muwaffaq Salti) air base in retaliation for the US tanker strikes; Jordan said it intercepted 18 of 20 and two fell in open areas. The IRGC claimed heavy damage to maintenance and shelter areas for F-35, F-16 and F-15 jets, while a US official said the barrage caused no US casualties.
CENTCOM said US forces struck and destroyed the M/T Kaviz, Charminar, Horizon 1 and Riesco in the Gulf of Oman and the M/T Derya near Kharg Island after the IRGC twice fired ballistic missiles at a US Navy warship over two days; crews were told to abandon ship first and no Americans were hurt. CENTCOM later released video of the Riesco sinking.
Houthi attacks early Tuesday hit 'civilian and economic facilities' in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, wounding 73 people including women and children, the Saudi-led coalition said. The Energy Ministry said fires broke out at several oil facilities and utilities and some operations were temporarily halted; the Houthis said they fired dozens of missiles and drones at Aramco sites in Najran and Abha, a Jazan industrial hub and King Khalid Air Base.
Israeli strikes that began at dawn hit Nabatieh, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Arab Salim and Kfar Remman, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20, Lebanese authorities said, and destroyed the out-of-service Ghandour hospital. Israel said it was responding to two Hezbollah drones launched at its troops and warned residents of Arab Salim to evacuate before one strike.
U.S. Central Command said a U.S. aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer evaded Iranian ballistic missiles, after which U.S. forces disabled the tankers Downy off Kharg Island and Stark 1 near Jask and destroyed the unladen Kylo in the Gulf of Oman, which later sank. No U.S. personnel were hurt, and Iranian media reported no casualties on the tanker hit near Kharg.
An Israeli strike killed two men on a motorcycle in Nabatieh on Friday, state media said, and after what Israel called a Hezbollah drone attack on its troops, further strikes that night hit sites in the south and east. Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes on Friday killed four people, including an 18-year-old woman, and wounded 32.
Israel released four more detainees held from Lebanon, two Lebanese citizens and two Syrians captured in Lebanon, to the ICRC at the Naqoura crossing on Sept. 4; they were handed to the Lebanese army in Tyre. In return Lebanon agreed to search for the remains of Jewish Lebanese citizens missing since the civil war.
Israel handed Lebanese civilian Malek Ghazi to the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Naqoura crossing on Sept. 3, and he was passed to the Lebanese army, the first of five civilian detainees Israel agreed to free. Netanyahu's office said Lebanon had helped search for the remains of Lebanese Jewish leaders killed in the 1980s; the other four handovers were pushed to the next morning.
Kuwait's army said its air defenses were intercepting Iranian missiles and drones early on Sept. 3, and its foreign ministry condemned the dawn attack as a flagrant violation of its sovereignty. Iran's army claimed hits on hangars and communications systems at Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait and on Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE; a US official said no facilities used by US forces were hit.
Traders in Tehran exchanged 2.20 million rials for one US dollar on Sept. 2, a record nearly 10% weaker than the previous low set on Aug. 25, as US-Iran strikes resumed. The currency has lost about half its value in a year of tightening sanctions and war.
Kuwait and Bahrain said their air defenses engaged Iranian drones and missiles early on Sept. 2, and a drone set fire to a residential complex in Kuwait City without casualties; Kurdish authorities said they intercepted 10 explosive drones near Erbil. Iran's military claimed hits on US-used bases including Sheikh Isa in Bahrain, Ali Al Salem in Kuwait and facilities in Erbil, but the US military did not confirm any impacts.
The IRGC said it fired ballistic missiles at Camp Titin, a US Marine site on the Gulf of Aqaba, and at Prince Hassan Air Base late on Sept. 1 in retaliation for the Kuhestak strike, as sirens sounded in Aqaba and Mafraq. Jordan's army said 10 of 13 missiles that entered its airspace were intercepted and three fell in remote areas without casualties; a US official said there were no injuries or significant damage at Camp Titin, rejecting IRGC claims of US deaths.
CENTCOM said US forces began striking IRGC targets at noon ET on Sept. 1, hitting air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets, mine-laying capabilities and communications sites after attempted IRGC attacks on shipping and US troops. Iranian media reported explosions in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Sirik, Jask, Konarak and Chabahar and near Ahvaz, where officials said seven people were killed at three sites.
By 9:10 a.m. EDT on Sept. 1, ICE Brent for November was up 2.43% at $92.72 a barrel and NYMEX WTI up 2.86% at $88.19, after two tankers carrying Saudi crude were hit in the Strait of Hormuz the previous evening. Prices rose further after the US strikes on Iran, with Brent just below $96 at 10 p.m. ET.
Saudi shipping company Bahri said its crude tanker Sidr was attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz late on Aug. 31, killing two Filipino seafarers, and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry condemned Iran for targeting the vessel. Iranian media had first reported a Saudi tanker 'stopped' in the southern corridor, and a second crude tanker, the Senegal Prosperity, was struck on the same route that evening.