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The Trump administration has proposed investing $5 billion in a new fund to help Middle East countries rebuild energy infrastructure damaged in the Iran war and reduce their reliance on the Strait of Hormuz to ship oil and gas, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US and Middle Eastern officials and documents.
The New York Times reported that Trump ordered the Pentagon to prepare airstrikes on the Houthis after a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with targets approved and bombs being loaded, but changed his mind by midday Sunday. Reuters separately reported that Trump spoke on Sunday with Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi, who asked for US support, without making a direct pledge.
Yemen's internationally recognized government said its forces struck Houthi fighters, positions and supply lines in the Bab al-Mandeb area and in Bayda province, military spokesperson Col. Majed al-Nazili said; government forces also said they shot down a Houthi drone in Taiz province, Al Jazeera reported. The claims could not be independently verified.
In Sacred Defence Week messages, army commander Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami said Iran's armed forces stand "with full vigilance and readiness" to defend the country, and the IRGC said the US and Israel would sooner or later have to accept a region "free of their evil and criminal presence," with its forces' fingers "on the trigger."
Brent crude for November fell $2.69, or 2.6%, to $101.18 a barrel by 12:54 GMT on Monday, and both benchmarks touched their lowest since Sept. 10, as traders hoped this week's UN meetings would bring diplomatic progress and eyed a partial recovery in Saudi shipments.
Khaleej Times live updates (Reuters), Al Jazeera live blog (day recap)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that "on September 23rd, all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world," warning that anyone who fuels them, provides landing services or sells their tickets "will be knocked out of the dollar system." Treasury had sanctioned all remaining Iranian airlines earlier in September.
Israeli warplanes struck the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa and the Zibqin valley, while artillery shelled towns in the Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun districts overnight and into Monday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. Lebanese authorities say Israeli attacks since March 2 have killed at least 4,386 people.
IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi said "the war is not over" and that if the US escalates, Iran would "certainly change the geography of the war" and bring "new weapons with new capabilities into the battle," adding that its targets would "no longer necessarily be the same as before."
UKMTO said military authorities reported that a tanker on an inbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile, leaving two crew with minor injuries; the vessel continued under its own power. Later on Monday, UKMTO reported a delayed report of an outbound LPG tanker hit by debris from unknown projectiles, with all crew safe.
Trump told Fox News he is in a 'deciding mode' and that 'very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future,' framing the options as 'wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal,' and said he would probably be open to meeting President Pezeshkian at the UN.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told parliament there would be no return to earlier negotiations and no reopening of the Strait of Hormuz until Iran's conditions, conveyed through intermediaries, are met and US commitments under the June deal are fulfilled.
In an Al Jazeera interview, Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei said Iran had sent its conditions for ending the war to Washington through Qatari and Pakistani mediators, naming an end to the war on all fronts, the release of frozen assets and the end of the naval blockade, and was awaiting Trump's reply. He later said on X Iran had 'seven conditions' for any talks.
The Israeli military struck Hezbollah infrastructure, including surveillance posts, in southern Lebanon after an IDF engineering vehicle hit a roadside bomb, wounding two soldiers. The IDF said it targeted sites used by the group in retaliation.
Saudi Arabia issued two rounds of air raid alerts for Riyadh overnight, the first since July, and the coalition said a Houthi ballistic missile fired at the capital was intercepted at dawn. Hours later a large fire sent smoke over Aramco-branded fuel tanks beside King Khalid International Airport, disrupting flights; the Houthis claimed attacks on 'sensitive' sites in Riyadh and an Aramco facility in Yanbu.
Five US officials told The Washington Post at least 22 service members have died since Feb. 28, four more than the Pentagon's public database shows, and a sixth put the toll at 23 plus three contractors. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the report a 'complete lie.'
The Times of Israel (liveblog citing Washington Post), The Times of Israel live blog +1 more
The Israel Defense Forces said it is reinforcing troop deployments across all active fronts as a precaution ahead of the Yom Kippur holiday period.
New satellite imagery reviewed by reporters shows Iran is rapidly reconstructing its Taleghan 2 facility at the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran, a site that was targeted by Israeli strikes earlier in the war.
Saudi Aramco has sold about 60 million barrels from Ras Tanura for loading by ship-to-ship transfer off Oman's Sohar this month and next, mainly to Chinese and South Korean refiners, Reuters reported, while Bloomberg said Aramco told at least two European refiners they would receive no crude next month.
A tanker was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire that was later extinguished, UKMTO said; all crew were reported safe and the environmental impact was unconfirmed.
Israeli warplanes carried out at least four strikes on al-Qantara and Nabatieh al-Fawqa on Thursday evening and another on Talloussah, and fired flares over the outskirts of Yater and Beit Lif, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
Launching Likud's campaign for the Oct. 27 election, Netanyahu said 'the mission must be completed; we must bring down the Iranian regime and totally destroy Hezbollah and Hamas,' and cited Israeli troops in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza as proof that 'we take land instead of giving it.'
Iran summoned Germany's ambassador after Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Tehran to halt its 'military nuclear programme', end support for proxies and lift the Hormuz blockade. Earlier Iran gave a Swedish diplomat 48 hours to leave after Sweden expelled an Iranian embassy staff member.
Trump told Axios: 'I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? ... Anything could happen with me,' while saying Iran was in direct contact and wanted a deal and that no ships had reached Iran since the blockade was reinstated in July.
Russia and China vetoed a US draft resolution to extend the mandate of the Security Council committee overseeing sanctions on Iran, rejecting the 'snapback' of UN sanctions as invalid because the 2015 nuclear deal and resolution 2231 expired last year. Iran thanked both countries.
A westbound tanker reported that a skiff pursued it and tried to intercept it about 75 nautical miles east of Aden, UKMTO said in warning 136-26, urging vessels in the area to be cautious.
China asked Iranian officials to use their influence with the Houthis to prevent disruption of energy routes it depends on, after Saudi Arabia appealed to Beijing following Houthi attacks, three Iranian sources told Reuters. Tehran replied that regional stability depends on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran.
European and Arab military chiefs met in Paris to assess the Lebanese army's needs ahead of the end of the UN peacekeeping mission, in talks opened by Emmanuel Macron with President Joseph Aoun and King Abdullah II, with a senior US military official taking part, Reuters reported. Aoun said Lebanon had chosen a state 'alone the decision-maker in matters of war and peace, with the bearing of arms exclusively in its hands.' Jordan and France also signed a defence cooperation agreement.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told Geo News the time had come to implement the Mecca defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye because of Houthi attacks, saying Pakistan was committed to protecting Saudi Arabia and its holy sites; he said Pakistan had conveyed Riyadh's message to Iran and did not think 'Iran as a state will open another front.'
Trump told reporters the US is 'hopefully toward the end' of the war and that Iran is eager to make a deal; asked whether he had heard from the Iranian side, he said he had spoken with them 'directly.'
Brent settled down $2.92, or 2.7%, at $105.83 a barrel and WTI fell 3.2% to $102.43 after Reuters reported Saudi Arabia was offering Asian refiners additional crude through ship-to-ship transfers off Oman's Sohar port, easing fears over the pipeline outage.