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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote that 'de-escalation must be a priority,' calling for an end to actions that harm civilians, safe humanitarian operations and the full restoration of navigational rights and freedoms.
Israeli forces hit al-Mansouri, Kfar Tebnit, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Beit Leef, Lebanon's state news agency said. Earlier, army chief Eyal Zamir said on the northern border that troops would keep operating 'deep inside' Lebanon and would not let Hezbollah rebuild: 'The war is not yet over.'
US officials met Houthi representatives at the US embassy in Muscat last weekend in an Oman-arranged meeting, three sources told Reuters. The Houthis said they had no intention of attacking US vessels, remain committed to their 2025 ceasefire with the US, and would not attack commercial ships except Saudi ones.
Some physical crude cargoes in Europe topped $130 a barrel and North Sea Forties rose to $136.75, near April's record, after Saudi Arabia suspended late-September shipments to European buyers because of the Yanbu loading halt, Reuters reported. Brent futures were about $107 earlier in the day.
The Trump administration informally notified Congress of a planned $2.8 billion package for Israel of 20,000 2,000-pound Mk84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117s, mostly paid with US military financing, AP reported; the deal was not final. On Sep 16 the top House Foreign Affairs Democrat, Gregory Meeks, said he would place a hold on it.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated the war cost about $38 billion through August, rising about $3 billion a month, mostly from munitions use; it said the US had used half to two-thirds of several key interceptor inventories (Patriot, THAAD, SM-3, SM-6), that restocking could take five years, and that the war would add 0.5 point to inflation in early 2027.
Military chiefs of Israel, the US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt met at a secluded German ski resort last week, where CENTCOM's Adm. Brad Cooper said US forces would not leave the region despite Iranian attacks. Israel and Saudi Arabia, with CENTCOM's help, are discussing how Israel could help counter the Houthi advance, though offensive Israeli action is unlikely; Israeli security officials have urged against striking the Houthis.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC he expects the East-West pipeline, which has moved 4 to 5 million barrels a day, to resume within days, and said Saudi Arabia was sending more oil out through Hormuz 'with the United States military' in the meantime. He called the pipeline strikes 'Iran-supported attacks from proxy groups.'
Oil loadings stopped at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port of Yanbu, shipping sources told Reuters, four days after drones launched from Iraq forced the shutdown of the East-West pipeline that feeds the terminal.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in Cairo and emphasized the need to secure freedom of navigation through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait amid continuing Houthi attacks.
The IRGC said its air defences destroyed an MQ-1 drone west of the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and two more on Tuesday, which Mehr said made four MQ-1s downed in recent days, and later claimed an MQ-9 over Qeshm Island at 22:59 GMT. US officials later told CBS News that Iranian forces had downed at least two US MQ-1s in recent days.
Hormozgan's deputy governor said a drone struck two fishing boats near Kargan port and fishermen were missing. CENTCOM said Iranian small boats had tried to take a US unmanned surface vessel and failed 'after CENTCOM forcefully responded'; Axios, citing US officials, reported a US drone fired two missiles that destroyed both boats and killed everyone aboard.
The US Treasury sanctioned Russia's state-controlled VTB Bank, which operates in Iran, for involvement in Iranian sanctions evasion and for correspondent relationships with sanctioned Iranian banks, calling it 'among the most comprehensively sanctioned financial institutions in the world.'
The IRGC said a supertanker it called 'Algaya' struck naval mines while crossing a restricted zone south of the strait and was engulfed in flames. CENTCOM called the claim false, saying the Panama-flagged El Gaia was disabled by an Iranian missile last month, hit again by an Iranian drone off Oman at the weekend, and was under tow.
The cost of hiring an oil tanker on the industry's benchmark Persian Gulf-to-China route surpassed $1 million a day for the first time, with vessels booked at $1.035 million a day according to the Baltic Exchange in London, as the Iran war leaves too few ships willing to cross the Strait of Hormuz to load cargoes.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed senior Sunni cleric Molavi Yusef Gorgij in southeastern Iran; local officials described him as having 'actively fought against divisive elements and Zionism,' according to a Times of Israel live update.
Trump wrote that 'the failing Nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly. I will determine whether or not the U.S.A. will choose to engage – The concept of which we are open to.' He added that countries that did not help restore oil flows through Hormuz 'should and will reimburse the United States.'
Austria refused entry to Atomic Energy Organization chief Mohammad Eslami for the IAEA General Conference in Vienna, saying the UN Security Council committee rejected its request for an exemption from his UN travel ban for lack of consensus. Iran summoned Austria's charge d'affaires and blamed US pressure.
Brent crude rose $3.62, or 3.5%, to $108.23 a barrel by 22:14 GMT as trading opened for the week, and WTI rose $3.15 to $103.20, after the shutdown of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, new Houthi strikes on the kingdom and the collapse of the Iran-Gulf Hormuz meeting. Brent held near $108 on Monday morning.
Demonstrations broke out in Syria over sharp fuel price increases, with gasoline up roughly 30% and diesel up roughly 40%, a jump attributed to global fuel-price pressure stemming from the ongoing U.S.-Iran war.
A senior Israeli official said the Lebanese army is 'very afraid to move against Hezbollah' and is 'dealing with cosmetics,' leaving the work to the IDF, while Israeli defence officials said Beirut fears a return to civil war.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said the regional meeting set for Monday in Salalah had been postponed 'in the interests of consensus.' Iran's Foreign Ministry said the delay was requested by some regional countries, and spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei later said Saudi Arabia had asked for it; Bahrain had already said it would not attend.
At the Irish Open golf championship, Trump said the US would 'ultimately get out' of Iran 'unless we decide to stay and keep the oil like Venezuela,' adding that Venezuelan revenue had 'paid for the war many times.' He repeated that the war could end right after the midterms and that gasoline prices would 'drop like a rock.'
U.S. Central Command commander Admiral Brad Cooper told CBS News he is "not concerned at all" about shortages of American missile interceptors amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, saying U.S. forces in the region remain "well armed and ready" despite months of sustained Iranian missile and drone fire.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan agreed to 'put aside the past' in talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in New Delhi, the highest-level Iran-UAE contact since the war began.
Buyers and traders told Reuters the East-West pipeline outage could affect about 4% of global oil supply if pumping does not resume within days, with repair estimates of five to six weeks; sources said Saudi Arabia had only five to seven days of oil stored at Yanbu.
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The New York Times reported that Iranian hardliners, allegedly led by Basij chief Hossein Taeb, launched attacks on Hormuz shipping in early July without authorization from President Masoud Pezeshkian or IRGC chief Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, derailing a US-Iran peace memorandum that had been under negotiation.
Times of Israel Liveblog (citing New York Times), The Times of Israel live blog
Israeli forces hit al-Dabsha Hill on the outskirts of Nabatieh twice in under 30 minutes, Lebanon's National News Agency said, as artillery intermittently shelled the Ali al-Taher forest and nearby towns including Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.
An Iran-Oman understanding sets the basis for eventually reopening the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian protocols but does not provide for an immediate reopening, which depends on the US meeting Tehran's conditions, Tasnim reported; the southern route the US favoured would be closed. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the deal does not 'in any way' signal a reopening.
A vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unknown projectile late on Saturday, UKMTO said in warning 134-26; a fire later broke out on board and local authorities helped evacuate the crew.