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The Treasury secretary left his Washington-area home after a photo let his Georgetown address be pinpointed. Separately, the U.S. moved refueling jets out of an English base over an Iran threat.
A superseding indictment says Mohammad Al-Saadi, now in federal custody in New York, directed fuel-filled vans toward the British base that houses U.S. troops.
The Paris prosecutor says an IRGC cyber unit seized control of supermarket refrigeration on Oct. 11, spoiling food and sparking about twenty fires.
A new Central Command task force targets weapons and revenue crossing Iran's borders, while Trump tells CNN renewed war is 'highly unlikely' if Tehran signs a strong deal.
A 48-hour operation involving a warship, a surveillance aircraft and airdropped marines ended the seizure of the Azini, as Somali piracy surges amid the Iran war.
Brent crude fell to $105 a barrel on signs of renewed dialogue, even as Trump warned he may have to give Tehran 'the hammer' and a record number of ships were attacked in October.
Qatar has run intense mediation for 72 hours, and Iran's foreign minister describes a two-day plan to stop attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and restart direct talks.
WatchQatari mediators have handed Iran a new draft peace deal, and Tehran's answer is due by Saturday. Washington is preparing a brief, intense campaign if diplomacy fails after the Nov. 3 election.
Iran's navy and the IRGC reported vessels disabled in waters it calls unsafe, and the U.K. navy confirmed a ship on fire. Tehran has not answered a letter from Vice President Vance.
British prosecutors charged two 24-year-olds under the National Security Act a month after armed police found gasoline-filled vans near the base that housed U.S. B-1 bombers.
WatchDirector of National Intelligence Jay Clayton says Tehran has 'substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel' as the White House weighs resuming strikes after the midterms.
WatchIsrael had wanted to hit in mid-October, but Trump objected, a person briefed on the planning said. Iran's foreign minister says Tehran is ready for diplomacy or war.
Sources tell CBS News the plans exist if President Trump orders them, even as he says the U.S. will not attack Iran before the midterms.
WatchThe president's Truth Social pledge on Thursday came a day after The Atlantic reported the White House had asked the Pentagon for pre-election strike options, as tanker attacks and Houthi missiles keep pressure on the Gulf.
The company says campaigns that placed false narratives in established media reached wider audiences than fake social media accounts, and one Russian operation drew a response from a member of the European Parliament.
The hasty Sunday departure follows the arrest of six people over a suspected plot against the British base; UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says there are "strong indications" Iran was behind it.
Mohsen Paknejad quit Sunday, with Hamid Bovard stepping in as acting minister, as the U.S. squeeze on Iranian oil sales deepens the country's economic crisis.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Tehran could restore normal traffic within seven days if Washington meets terms drawn from the Islamabad memorandum.
Montenegro sent Amir Barati to New York, where he faces wire and computer fraud charges in a case that prosecutors tie to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt and Marines aboard the USS Makin Island head toward Iran as the U.S. blockade continues and Trump says new strikes are 'possible' after the midterms.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham says there are 'strong indications' Iran played a part, which Tehran denies, as the arrest follows five men freed on bail last weekend.
WatchThe Pentagon says the withdrawal is complete, but Kurdish officials worry about losing U.S. air defenses and Iran-backed militias have yet to disarm.
Tehran says Foreign Minister Araghchi's departure was planned weeks ago. Washington and Tehran remain split on the order of concessions on Hormuz, nuclear steps and sanctions relief.
The currency has dropped again less than a month after its last low, while Washington adds sanctions and Tehran waits on a response to its Strait of Hormuz proposal.
The pullout ends a military presence in which about 4,500 Americans died, and it comes as the U.S. wages war on Iran and Iraqi militias resist disarming.
WatchForeign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's Meet the Press that Iran still wants diplomacy, a day after President Trump said he rejected Tehran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz called that offer a 'cynical attempt.'
WatchIran's president told CBS News his country would 'abide by whatever we commit to' and admit nuclear inspectors. A day later, Trump said the seven-day plan 'would not be acceptable.'
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the strait would reopen on day seven if the U.S. agrees to a full ceasefire, frees frozen assets, lifts its blockade and waives oil sanctions. The White House calls the talks 'positive and constructive' but says it won't rush.
WatchMasoud Pezeshkian held up photos of dead schoolchildren and called out Trump by name, a day after Trump told the same hall he might 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic.
Mohsen Rezaei, a month into the job as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera the conditions are with Qatari and Pakistani mediators and Iran is waiting on Washington. The list drops Tehran's earlier demand for reparations, which one U.S. analyst read as movement, though he said Washington would still hear it as 'surrender.'
WatchThe fact-finding mission says two Feb. 28 strikes killed at least 178 civilians, most of them schoolgirls. It goes to the Human Rights Council Monday. Washington hasn't answered its June requests for a meeting.
Nobody will say where the aircraft went down or which variant they were. Central Command declined to comment.
The VL Prosperity, a 333-meter Liberian-flagged crude carrier sailing from Egypt, was boarded Aug. 21 to investigate a cyberattack reported two weeks earlier. The U.S. has not said who did it, and the Coast Guard says there was no damage, spill or danger to the crew.
The U.N. sanctions committee denied Austria's request to exempt Mohammad Eslami from the travel ban that snapped back last year. Tehran called it 'a serious breach' of its rights and summoned Austria's envoy; Russia said Vienna 'grossly violated' its duties as host.
Anthropic's September threat report says the same account designed a domestic mass-surveillance platform for Iranian state systems. The company banned it, built new detections and handed the intelligence to U.S. authorities. The report also flags five cases where working scientists used Claude in ways that could support bioweapons development.
Iran's briefing for Gulf foreign ministers on how it plans to manage Hormuz shipping was called off hours later. Oman said the delay was 'in the interests of consensus.' Trump said the war will end 'right after the midterms.'
The East-West pipeline that let the kingdom pump more than 5 million barrels a day to the Red Sea is closed after a drone attack traced to Iraqi territory, while the Houthis now hold every island in the Bab el-Mandeb and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pressing Trump to strike them.
U.S. forces fired more than 30 Patriot missiles defending Muwaffaq Salti Air Base overnight. No American deaths were reported.
WatchMohsen Rezaei said the zone will start at the line of the U.S. naval blockade and run toward the strait. Brent crude traded near $97 and the Labor Day gasoline average hit a record $4.14 a gallon.
The energy secretary told 'Face the Nation' that falling prices are 'not an unreasonable expectation.' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had put a date on it.
WatchU.S. Central Command said the M/T Kylo went down in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday, one of three tankers struck in retaliation for missiles fired at American ships. Tehran has promised a "more severe" response.
The crew was evacuated and no casualties were reported. Kharg carried 90 percent of Iranian crude exports before the war, and Trump said last week the island was being "blown to smithereens."
WatchIran fired missiles and drones at an air base in Kuwait and another in the United Arab Emirates overnight, extending its retaliation to a third Gulf state in three days. Iran's health ministry now counts 18 dead from American strikes.
WatchIranian officials say American strikes killed civilians at a wedding celebration in Sirik county and wounded dozens more. Within hours the Revolutionary Guard launched missiles and drones at U.S. positions in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and the Emirates.
WatchThe conflict passed its half-year mark on Friday with the Strait of Hormuz still contested, roughly 6,000 sailors on 400 ships still stuck in the region, and Tehran refusing to yield to what the Treasury Department is calling an economic D-Day.
WatchTehran's price for reopening the world's most important oil chokepoint was reparations and sanctions relief. Trump's counteroffer was a bill of his own, and Brent crude blew past $87.
The press corps and part of the staff flew home on a decoy Air Force One with the cabin shades ordered shut. By Monday night officials were furious the ruse had leaked.
The act lets the president impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas. The House is on recess and will not vote before September.
The strike hit a plant that processes 400,000 barrels of crude a day. A separate Houthi barrage on the Yemeni port of Mocha killed seven people.
WatchTehran's security chief laid out six conditions for reopening the world's most important oil chokepoint. Fewer than 10 ships a day are getting through a waterway that used to carry 130.
Officials say the network laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue through shell companies in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. "Every facilitator that keeps the regime afloat is putting a target on its own back," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
WatchA Saudi official told CNN the kingdom has tracked meetings between Iraqi militiamen, Houthi operatives and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, along with the movement of drones and missiles. The warning came a day after the Houthis hit a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binds an oil power, a nuclear-armed state and NATO's second-largest military — signed as the Iran war reshapes the region.
H.R. 5334 would let the president tariff the biggest buyers of Russian oil, blacklist Moscow's shadow fleet and extend Iran sanctions. Rand Paul gets one amendment vote first.
The draft would keep 'hostile' ships out until Tehran is compensated for war damage and fine violators a fifth of their cargo. A U.S. official told NPR the strait is international water and 'no party controls the lanes.'
WatchDefense officials tell CBS News the American arsenal of ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles is all but empty, and an independent tally says Patriot interceptors have fallen by roughly two-thirds since the fighting began.
Survivors of the Iranian strike on Port of Shuaiba say commanders ignored force-protection warnings and denied requests for medical supplies. Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants the investigation released.
One crew member is missing from the Liberian-flagged Minoan Pioneer, struck 23 miles off Oman. On the same day, an Indian-flagged ship sank in the Red Sea after an explosive-laden boat rammed it.
WatchThe president called off a massive bombing campaign on the promise that negotiations were about to begin. Tehran's foreign ministry says the only talks happening are with Oman, and American officials told CBS News no new negotiations are scheduled.
WatchThe president said Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates asked him to hold off, and that talks aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz would begin Monday. Iran's foreign ministry says no direct talks with Washington are scheduled.
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