After days of tension on the Strait of Hormuz, the war in Iran seems to be moving towards its conclusion. The declarations of both parties point in this direction. "There is no need for further military operations in Iran at the moment," said Donald Trump in a surprise briefing at the White House while a few hours earlier Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had reported Mojitaba Khamenei's directives:
"The Supreme Leader has ordered us to end the no-war-no-peace situation with the United States. We can initiate a dialogue (with the United States) and come to a dignified conclusion of the matter. We aim for a negotiation based on justice and a level playing field."
US President Donald Trump has said he will likely meet with the leaders of Russia and China next week to discuss ending the war in Iran. Trump told reporters he expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen on November 18-19.
Yemen's internationally recognized government has called on Iran to stop arming the Houthis, withdraw its military advisers and end interference in the country's internal affairs, accusing Tehran of directly participating in the planning and management of the group's operations. Iran International reports this, citing a statement from the Yemeni Foreign Ministry.
Eisenkot received from Herzog the task of forming the new government in Israel, after Netanyahu's six. “We need new leadership that we can trust”, the first message from the Yashar leader who opens up to Likud. But vetoes and differences emerge in the Change Bloc.
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani commented on his meeting with Donald Trump and JD Vance on X, calling the discussions positive. "We discussed the situation in the region and ways to advance the talks between the United States and Iran. I am grateful for the positive discussions that led to the achievement of an agreement and the subsequent consolidation of peace in the region," Al Thani said.
US President Donald Trump has said there is "positive momentum" towards a deal to end the conflict with Iran. The opening came on the sidelines of a meeting in Washington with the prime minister of Qatar, a country which is playing a crucial role as mediator in the crisis.
In a message later published on his Truth Social platform, Trump added that a resumption of military raids against Tehran was considered "unlikely". The American president has in fact underlined how the potential of the Gulf is inclined to maintain the current status quo in the region, thus favoring the diplomatic path for de-escalation.
"There is no need for further military operations in Iran at the moment." Donald Trump said this in a surprise briefing at the White House.
In a separate proceeding, the student was also sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for acting against national security.
According to CNN, the US army is preparing new attack plans in Iran which include the potential use of the Gbu-43/b Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), better known as the "mother of all bombs". The use, aimed at energy infrastructures and military sites, depends on the possible order of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, for the resumption of military operations before or after the mid-term elections, set for November 3rd.
The alarm came from the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen who spoke at the WinWin Brussels Summit dedicated to startups.
The meeting between Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of Qatar, which took place around noon, lasted about 45 minutes and focused on negotiations with Iran. An informed source reports this to Axios.
"I am able to confirm that responsibility for this attack lies with the Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is an attack of unprecedented scale and aggressiveness." Jean-Noël Barrot said this on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Affairs meeting, confirming what was anticipated by the investigation opened in France into refrigerator hackers. "We have summoned the Iranian ambassador to France to protest in the strongest possible terms against this extremely serious act. We will adopt European-wide sanctions against all those responsible for this attack," Barrot added.
"Certainly the hybrid attacks concerning Italy are by pro-Russian hackers. We don't know if the government is behind it": this was said by the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, in Paris during the first day of the G7 ministerial meeting, responding to a question on the French investigation which blames Iran's Revolutionary Guards for the attacks. "We can't talk about Russia, but they are pro-Russian hackers by their own admission. We will see who are responsible for the other attacks in Europe. They are certainly attacks that happen at the same time and evidently there is coordination."
The French judiciary has opened an investigation into the head of the Iranian group Shahid Kaveh, i.e. the cyber unit of the Pasdaran, suspecting that he is behind the cyber attacks that last month knocked out refrigerators and freezers in supermarkets across the country. This was announced by the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.
Iran has denied that a meeting is planned next week in Doha between US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei. A senior Iranian security official told Press TV, saying that Tehran's negotiating policy will remain unchanged until Washington meets its conditions. The meeting next week in Doha was announced by the head of Turkish Intelligence Ibrahim Kalin during a conference in Ankara. "Until the American side takes concrete actions within the seven conditions" set by Iran, "no plans for negotiations with the American side will be presented," the senior Iranian official said, as reported by Press TV.
The heavy floods of the last few days in the Gaza Strip have created "abominable" conditions, forcing "around 100,000 people" to leave the places where they were living: this is what Wassem Mushtaha, Oxfam representative in the Gaza Strip, denounced in statements reported by Al Jazeera. “Israel is restricting access to shelter materials and has made 65 percent of the Gaza Strip inaccessible. People have no safe place to go,” Mushtaha added. Oxfam teams on the ground are engaged in urgent maintenance of drainage networks and providing essential materials to manage the emergency.
The Israeli police and the Shin Bet, the internal intelligence agency, have opened an investigation after some flyers were found today in mailboxes of private homes in the northern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv, linked to the Handala hacker group, linked to Iran. The flyers include a QR code that links to an internet page that the police define as ''with threatening content''. The site contains a message, written in ungrammatical Hebrew, warning Israelis: ''Should your leaders once again act recklessly by attacking the energy infrastructure of the resistance front, you will have to be prepared to pay a very high price for this aggression. That day, in the occupied territories (Israel, ed.) not a power plant, nor a refinery, nor a desalination plant will remain standing''.
US Vice President Jd Vance and Iranian Security Council head Mohsen Rezaei will have a meeting next week in Doha. This was announced by the head of Turkish Intelligence Ibrahim Kalin, underlining that the meeting in Qatar represents ''a great turning point'' in the negotiations between the United States and Iran. Speaking at a conference in Ankara, Kalin said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged US President Donald Trump during a phone call on Saturday not to launch another series of attacks against Iran. Quoted by Middle East Eye, Kalin added that any US attack on Iran would trigger another cycle of regional violence. Explaining that progress is being made on the seven-point plan developed between the United States and Iran, Kalin said that "now it's just a matter of establishing the sequence and who will take the first step. That's where we are." Warning that even a small incident could derail the progress made so far, the Turkish intelligence chief stressed that "if we can reach this agreement in the next few days, then there will be no attack." But, he noted, within days the United States could attack Iran again in the absence of a deal.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, will meet the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, today at the White House, as part of an attempt to relaunch negotiations with Iran, which sees Doha among the mediators. This is what emerges from the program published by the White House. Vice President JD Vance, the figure in the Trump administration who is doing the most to avoid a new conflict, is also expected to participate in the closed-door meeting in the Oval Office.
The leader of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, Yaakov Asher, has for now rejected the proposal to become the new president of the Israeli parliament. The Times of Israel reports it. The offer came from Roy Folkman, president of Yashar of the prime minister in charge Gadi Eisenkot. But according to Asher it is too early to decide on the replacement of the current speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana. The president, he explained, "should be replaced after the formation of a new government, and not when the Knesset meets." This, he underlined, to avoid "an absurd situation in which the leader of the Knesset is at odds with the government". Asher's is therefore not a definitive no, but a signal of great caution regarding the success of Eisenkot's attempt to form the government, after the task he received from President Isaac Herzog yesterday.
Roy Folkman, group leader of Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party, has sent a letter to the ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Judaism to join the initiative to replace the current Speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana (Likud). Voting on the position typically occurs after a new government is sworn in, but
