Oct 5, 2026 · 16 min · 13 segments
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Let's start in the Middle East, where the United States is quietly building up its forces, even as talks with Iran go nowhere.
Al Jazeera reports that the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt left San Diego on Sunday, and that by the end of November there should be three American aircraft carriers and two amphibious landing groups near Iran, adding as many as 10,000 more troops to the roughly 50,000 already stationed across the region.
The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterm elections.
And in an interview with Time magazine, he said it was, quote, possible he would ramp up strikes after that vote.
At the same time, the diplomatic track has stalled.
President Trump rejected it, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, called the demands for sanctions relief and frozen funds, quote, non-negotiable.
war.
The pressure is economic as well as military.
And Treasury Secretary Scott Besant claimed Iran loaded zero crude oil onto tankers in September.
And the sea lanes remain dangerous.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre said another tanker was hit by an unknown projectile near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday and caught fire, though the crew was reported safe.
The war is now in its eighth month.
Al-Hurra reports that the head of Yemen's Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, announced a full-scale military campaign to retake the capital Sana'a from the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
He said the decision came after, in his words, the exhaustion of opportunities for peace.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says about 8.1 million barrels of oil a day passed through Bab al-Mandab in the second quarter of this year, roughly 50% more than late last year, because Saudi Arabia has been shipping its crude out of its Red Sea port of Yanbu to avoid the Strait of Hormuz.
Let's start in the Middle East, where the United States is quietly building up its forces, even as talks with Iran go nowhere.
Al Jazeera reports that the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt left San Diego on Sunday, and that by the end of November there should be three American aircraft carriers and two amphibious landing groups near Iran, adding as many as 10,000 more troops to the roughly 50,000 already stationed across the region.
The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterm elections.
And in an interview with Time magazine, he said it was, quote, possible he would ramp up strikes after that vote.
At the same time, the diplomatic track has stalled.
President Trump rejected it, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, called the demands for sanctions relief and frozen funds, quote, non-negotiable.
war.
The pressure is economic as well as military.
And Treasury Secretary Scott Besant claimed Iran loaded zero crude oil onto tankers in September.
And the sea lanes remain dangerous.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre said another tanker was hit by an unknown projectile near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday and caught fire, though the crew was reported safe.
The war is now in its eighth month.
Al-Hurra reports that the head of Yemen's Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, announced a full-scale military campaign to retake the capital Sana'a from the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
He said the decision came after, in his words, the exhaustion of opportunities for peace.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says about 8.1 million barrels of oil a day passed through Bab al-Mandab in the second quarter of this year, roughly 50% more than late last year, because Saudi Arabia has been shipping its crude out of its Red Sea port of Yanbu to avoid the Strait of Hormuz.
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