🇮🇷🇷🇺🇬🇧 Iran lost territories about the size of Ukraine (620,000 km²) between 1813 and 1971 (roughly 40% of today's size), almost all to Russia and Britain, as one map draws it. → Russia took about 305,000 km² in the north, Britain about 310,000 km² in the east → Iran won back only about 25,000 km² → A land empire grabbed the north, a sea empire carved the east: Iran was squeezed from both sides → China tells a similar "century of humiliation" story, and it is used to justify a strong state today

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says its next war will be wider, with threats to cables, AI data centres and oil sites if the US resumes strikes, CNN reports. → Guards spokesman Mohebbi: "The world will be amazed. We have new targets that have not yet been attacked" → US officials say a MOAB plan exists; Trump says nothing before 3 November, but advisers doubt it So is Iran deterring a war, or making one likelier? What Iran is signalling → A doctrine of not waiting to be struck, and 30 ballistic missiles fired at once in an exercise What can go wrong → The US pulled bombers from a UK base after a suspected Iranian plot, and threats can read as provocation Iran is buying time before 3 November with fear. But the widest threat also gives Washington the best reason to strike first.

France 🇫🇷: The country is in a state of lawlessness. Rioters are looting and vandalizing everything they find. There is no laws, no rule, no security.

🇵🇰🇮🇷 Something big will happen soon. Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir is reportedly heading to Iran as US-Iran escalation looms, though neither government has confirmed the trip.

🇮🇱Netanyahu: Clinton called me in 1996 when I was first elected, and he said, "Congratulations, Bibi. You beat us. We tried everything to bring you down, and you beat us."

🇮🇱Netanyahu on Europe: Europe is an exhausted continent. They have no will to fight. They succumb to these Islamist constituencies in there, and the woke left and Islamist bond.

🇮🇱Netanyahu: I said this to Trump, "You have one fighting ally in the world, only one: that's Israel."

BREAKING: 🇫🇷🇪🇸 Fears are building around tomorrow's PSG-Barcelona game in Paris, a city that has seen Champions League nights go wrong before.

BREAKING: 🇫🇷Mayor of northwestern French town calls on government to declare emergency

BREAKING: 🇰🇵 Rumors that Kim Jong Un is dead are exploding online, but nothing credible confirms it

BREAKING: 🇾🇪🇸🇦 Intense fighting is reported along the Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandeb strait between the Houthis and Yemen's army. → Both sides claim the ground →The army says it holds Mocha and Dhubab, and the Houthis call that "fabricated heroics"

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's navy says US forces hit its Konarak naval base with "two light projectiles", wounding two soldiers; it says the target was a 35mm cannon. → The US denied a similar Konarak strike claim in July, and Trump has said he won't attack before 3 November

BREAKING: 🇵🇰🇮🇷 Pakistan has suspended trade with Iran at the Taftan and Gabd-Rimdan border crossings in Balochistan. → No reason is given; Pakistan backs Saudi Arabia against Iran-backed Houthis, and it also shut these crossings in June 2025 during the Israel-Iran war

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇪🇺 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: “The Europeans are partners in this war.” He cites NATO’s Secretary General, who said that more than 500 American fighter jets took off from European airbases to carry out operations against Iran.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇪🇺 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: “Europe must open its eyes to reality.” He says Europeans, like the Americans, suffer from “miscalculations and mistaken assumptions” and have become responsible for many wars through “misguided policies.” He claims they prolonged the war in Ukraine and, through “unconditional and unwavering support” for Israel, bear responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including more than 80,000 in Gaza. He adds that they caused the latest war, the one launched against Iran “based on a major miscalculation.”

🇮🇷🇺🇸Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The recent war in our region has demonstrated to the countries of the region that the presence of foreign forces and American military bases on their territory has contributed nothing to their security. On the contrary, it has undermined their security. These bases were not only unable to protect their host countries, but they could not even defend themselves. All of them suffered heavy blows and were destroyed during the recent war. We welcome any initiative that leads to homegrown security and collective security arrangements among the countries of the region, without the presence or interference of foreign forces. We consider such initiatives a step in the right direction.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇸Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The Europeans must open their eyes to reality. The economic and social crises they are facing today are the result of their own misguided policies, which they have pursued across the world, within Europe itself, and in our region.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The even greater mistake they are now making, which the United States started, is to portray this conflict as a civilizational war. To escape the quagmire they themselves created, they now turn to history, searching through its depths to find occasions when Iranians attacked them. In my opinion, these are merely attempts to deceive themselves and the international community. No civilizational war should be encouraged, and no such war should exist today.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇫🇷Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The French openly declared their support for the war and wrote to Trump, stating that they would help him in the war against Iran. Now that they are facing social crises, they attribute these crises to the consequences of a war in which they claim to have played no role.

🇷🇺🇮🇷Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: Russia has no intention of abandoning the implementation of its agreements with Iran in the economic and investment spheres. Our specialists are gradually returning to the Bushehr nuclear power plant. There are also major prospects for cooperation in the extraction and transportation of hydrocarbons.