10 million ago A tanker crashed in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, says maritime monitor A tanker was hit in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, the UK Navy’s Maritime Trade Operations center said on Monday. The maritime monitor said it received a “delayed verified report” of the incident, in which “an oil tanker transiting outward was hit by an unknown projectile, disabling the vessel.” In a post on X, UKMTO said that “the crew have been reported safe.” Iran claimed to have attacked at least four oil tankers near the strait on Thursday last week, but there was no corroboration of its claims, and President Trump accused the Iranian regime of fabricating attacks on commercial vessels in a bid to boost global oil prices ahead of the US midterm elections. Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday rejected reports of a rift between Israel’s military and its civilian leaders, particularly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the prospect of new attacks in the war with Iran, calling them “totally unfounded.” Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources, that there had been a confrontation between Netanyahu and the army chief. Eyal Zamir on an unspecified new directive. Netanyahu dismissed the report as “garbage” during a television appearance, and Katz characterized it as an attempt to cast doubt on the judgment of the Netanyahu administration on the eve of close parliamentary elections that could topple him. “Reports on the gaps between the political echelon and the IDF [army] on the Iran issue are completely unfounded and false,” Katz said on 6:45 AM Brent Crude Oil hovers around $115 a barrel after a small drop The price of Brent crude oil hovered around $115 a barrel early Monday after rising late last week on global supply concerns linked to ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, as the northern hemisphere heads into the gas-hungry winter. President Trump has fueled speculation that he could order a resumption of U.S. strikes on Iran after the US election. next Tuesday’s midterm. Do I finish it, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal? Additional US forces, including a third aircraft carrier group, have been sent to the region, although US diplomatic staff have been reduced, and sources told CBS News last week that the US military footprint in the Middle East was also quietly shrinking. CBS/AFP 6:45 AM Iran says Israeli election result ‘makes no difference’ Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that the outcome of the Israeli election in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a tight race will make “no difference.” “We don’t care who, in these elections, takes the helm of a regime that has brought nothing but violence and massacres to our region,” ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said at a weekly news conference, a day before Israeli legislative elections. Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that Israel had “intelligence signals that our enemies, Iran and its proxies, could challenge us with attacks to disrupt the elections.” Saudi, Turkey and Pakistan will hold talks with Iran on Monday in Tehran, officials said Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan will hold talks on regional security with Iranian officials on Monday in Tehran, Iranian and Saudi officials said. The meeting will come after eight months of war in the Middle East and recent threats by the US and Israel of new attacks against Iran. Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. In an interview with state television, Kani said that Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei will also participate in the meeting. Saudi Deputy Minister of Public Diplomacy Dr. Rayed Krimly confirmed that the kingdom’s defense minister was leading a delegation to Tehran on Monday. X. It aims to “promote dialogue and diplomatic solutions, in support of the mediation efforts carried out by the State of Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” he added. 6:45 AM Conflicting claims after Houthis say they attacked Saudi capital’s airport hours after it reopened The Saudi-led military coalition fighting alongside the Yemeni government in the country’s civil war said Monday it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis, after the Iran-backed group claimed responsibility for a new attack on the international airport in Riyadh. A Houthi spokesman said the group launched attacks on the airport on Sunday, just hours after it resumed flights. Deadly attacks by the rebel group earlier this month had forced the airport to close operations for more than two weeks. Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Malki said Monday that air defenses “intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile” fired by the Houthis toward Riyadh and destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. Spokesman Yahya Saree said Monday that the group “successfully targeted” the airport with a ballistic missile and attacked oil pumping stations with drones. Saree previously warned that Riyadh airport was still “unsafe” and a “military target”, as the airport prepared to resume international flights. The airport closure was a blow to Saudi Arabia, forcing the kingdom’s main investment conference to be postponed until 2027 and disrupting the travel plans of thousands of passengers. Saudi Arabia and the government The backs in Yemen have come under sustained attacks in recent weeks by the Houthis as a years-long truce broke down over the summer, shifting the focus of the broader war between the United States and Iran that broke out in February. CBS/AFP 6:45 AM Netanyahu warns Iran may use attacks to disrupt Israeli elections on Tuesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran and its allies could try to disrupt Israel’s elections on Tuesday, warning the Islamic republic against any hostile acts. “We have intelligence signals that our enemies, Iran and its proxies, could challenge us with attacks to disrupt the elections,” he added. “Do not test us. You will suffer disproportionate blows.” CBS/AFP 6:45 AM Trump says he is weighing a deal with Iran versus action to “take them down.” President Trump said Sunday morning that he is deciding between reaching a deal with Tehran or taking steps to “take them down,” after suggesting Friday that Washington “can do another epic little rage,” referring to the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran. This photo from US Central Command from October 23. 2026, shows two fighter jets approaching a KC-135 Stratotanker to refuel while flying over US Central Command. “Now, my question is: Do I make a deal with them or do I take them out?” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” He also claimed that the United States now controls the Strait of Hormuz and criticized former President Barack Obama for the better Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA. Obama signed the agreement in 2015, but Trump withdrew during his first term. 6:45 am Iran says possible new US attacks would not change its position Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that a possible resumption of war with Israel and the United States would not change his country’s positions. to the American-Israeli campaign against Iran that began on February 28. “Lately there is talk of a new war, but I am already thinking about the post-war. Whether there is war or not, our policies remain the same,” Araghchi said during a televised event in Tehran. “They’ve already done it twice and seen the results. If they want to try again, they know they won’t achieve a different result than in the past. “Direct negotiations between the United States and Iran appeared to stall for weeks, but Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said early Sunday that Tehran had not closed the window on diplomacy and that messages were still being conveyed to the United States through intermediaries. CBS/AFP
