News and analysis on Iran: the IRGC, nuclear talks, U.S.–Iran confrontation, Strait of Hormuz shipping and Tehran’s regional proxies.
An AP investigation says IRGC advisers helped Houthi forces seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast, Iran’s most direct battlefield role in Yemen since 2014.
Trump said envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held three hours of talks with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi at the UN; Tehran says its Hormuz terms still stand.
The G7 urged Yemen’s Houthis to stop threatening shipping and pressed Iran to end arms support, as fighting reached heights over Bab al-Mandab.
Trump’s UNGA week packs at least 11 leader meetings, from Zelenskyy to six Gulf states, amid the Iran war and a 32% approval rating.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters Tehran can reopen Hormuz within seven days if the U.S. lifts its blockade, and Pezeshkian will not meet Trump.
Trump pulled back planned U.S. airstrikes on the Houthis with bombs already loaded, the NYT reported, after Riyadh intercepted a ballistic missile.
Trump said he would “probably be open” to meeting Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian at the UN as Tehran’s delegation arrived with a list of end-of-war conditions.
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters warned the U.S. is preparing to resume strikes and vowed retaliation, as Trump said he remains in “deciding mode.”
Aramco has sold about 60 million barrels for ship-to-ship loading at Oman’s Sohar port, a workaround after pipeline damage choked Yanbu exports.
Trump told Axios he faces a “big decision” on Iran, weighing escalation or the current stalemate ahead of a UNGA meeting with six Gulf leaders.
Hundreds of thousands filled Tehran for the state-organized “Janfaday-e Iran” rally, the largest since the U.S.–Israeli campaign began in February.
A UN-backed fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds that U.S. forces committed war crimes in Iran, citing a Minab school strike that killed over 150.
Saudi Arabia, short of interceptors, asked France, Pakistan, Egypt and the UK for air-defense help, AP reported, as the Houthis claimed an F-15 kill.
The House voted 262–159 to send Trump the Graham Russia–Iran sanctions bill, which targets banks, energy and shadow tankers and adds tariff powers.
Iran’s Mohsen Rezaei rejected talks with the U.S. unless Tehran’s conditions are met first, hours after Trump said he is open to a deal with Iran.
TankerTrackers imagery shows supertankers moving both ways through Hormuz by day, a fragile recovery as Iran lists 77 vessels for penalties.
The Saudi-led coalition said Houthi missiles and drones wounded 13 civilians in Abha and Taif, while the Houthis claimed 54 Saudi airstrikes on Yemen.
CENTCOM rejected an IRGC claim that the tanker El Gaia hit mines in Hormuz, saying an Iranian missile and later a drone struck the Indian-crewed ship.
Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline stayed shut after drones launched from Iraq hit facilities, cutting a route for about 4% of world oil as Brent nears $108.
CENTCOM says U.S. forces have redirected 101 commercial ships to enforce the blockade of Iranian ports, up from 96 days earlier, as Hormuz traffic stays thin.
An Iranian container ship was hit by a projectile off Qeshm Island on Sept. 13, 2026, killing one, and Oman postponed Gulf talks on Hormuz shipping lanes.
Houthi forces seized the Red Sea port of Mocha from Saudi-backed government troops, moving closer to Bab al-Mandab as Hormuz remains contested.
CENTCOM said U.S. forces had redirected 96 ships under the Iran blockade by September 10, as Brent hit $107 and Hormuz traffic collapsed.
Iran’s IRGC said it struck a U.S. Saildrone in Hormuz on Sept. 10, 2026; UKMTO separately reported two vessels hit off Khasab, Oman. No U.S. confirmation.
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