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Iran’s national security adviser has warned that the rapidly deteriorating economy has plunged the country into one of the most difficult periods in its history.

Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s top security official, made the rare admission on Saturday at a high-level government meeting about how to stabilize the economy after more than seven months of war.

Iran’s currency, the rial, has plummeted since the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran in February. The decline has accelerated sharply in recent weeks, since the United States ratcheted up sanctions and enforced a naval blockade. That has made imports more expensive and deepened a longstanding cost of living crisis that sparked nationwide protests last December that the security forces crushed with deadly force.

Iran is hitting a wall. Every day the Rial falls to a new low. That’s a major vindication for the blockade and US sanctions. Iran’s economy is imploding, even as it’s lost its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has played its cards very poorly…
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— Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) October 4, 2026

h/t Clink

The massive surge of three American aircraft carrier strike groups and ten thousand additional troops into the Persian Gulf is being framed as an unyielding display of military resolve. Yet the reality in Washington is governed as much by electoral calendars as by naval doctrine. The White House’s explicit rejection of Tehran’s latest proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for immediate sanctions relief highlights a deliberate strategy: hold the line through the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, maintain maximum economic pressure, and defer high-risk kinetic operations.

In a show of complete desperation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has written a 26-page open letter to Americans, more specifically to the easily manipulated woke. “IRGC writes an open letter to American people,” Mehr News Agency, September 29, 2026 …

The war with Iran is expanding in ways that seem alarming but not necessarily detrimental to the U.S. position, as Donald Trump threatens to unleash further devastating bombing campaigns on the IRGC regime following America’s midterm elections.

As a researcher who has spent more than two decades studying counterterrorism and radical Islamist organizations in the Middle East, I want to address the Department of Homeland Security directly — and its new secretary, who understands the nature of the regime ruling Iran. The threat posed by the Islamic Republic on American soil is not hypothetical. Its record reveals an operational pattern of proxy terrorism, criminal recruitment, target surveillance, and assassination plots.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that Iran was prepared for a “doomsday war” after President Donald Trump rejected its ceasefire offer.

Trump publicly confirmed that he rejected an Iranian ceasefire offer on Saturday, one that offered a halt on attacks on Strait of Hormuz shipping and a resumption of nuclear talks in return for the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade. In an appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press, Araghchi was asked about a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming that Trump may seek a return to intensive bombing after the midterm elections. In response to the two developments, Araghchi said Iran was confident in its position in the case of a resumption of the war.

President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said.

Tehran’s proposal would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz and resumed nuclear talks in return for the U.S. lifting its blockade of Iranian ports, which is causing deep damage to the country’s economy. Trump says openly that Tehran is begging for a deal after the midterms that dismantles its nuclear program.

But privately Trump is skeptical Iran would meet his demands and has told his staff that he sees a renewed bombing campaign as likely, the officials said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country has proposed a deal to the US that would see the Strait of Hormuz reopened within a week.

Araghchi told reporters at the UN in New York that this could be done “if the necessary conditions are met” and said these were contained within the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in June.

“The choice now rests with the United States,” he said, adding the plan was delivered to the US via Qatar.

Donald Trump said he was considering “blowing up the entire nation” of Iran amid claims the US was preparing to resume military action against the regime.

The US president also suggested he could “let them rot economically”, as Tehran is squeezed by a naval blockade, or strike a peace deal.

Iran on Sunday said it was preparing for possible air strikes and threatened to retaliate. US embassies and the US state department issued security alerts this weekend amid fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Friday for a government-organized rally calling on civilians to join the military and prepare to “sacrifice their lives.”

It was the largest demonstration in the country since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February.

Dubbed “Janfaday-e Iran,” or “ones who sacrifice their lives for Iran,” the rally was designed to project national unity as Tehran faces a worsening economy amid US sanctions and a naval blockade of Iranian ports.

WASHINGTON — The White House came out swinging Thursday against a United Nations-sponsored investigation that found “reasonable grounds” to conclude the US committed war crimes in Iran.

The fact-finding mission stood up by the global body’s notorious Human Rights Council said that the US should pay “full reparations to victims” of two attacks that occurred on Feb. 28, the first day of Operation Epic Fury, at a school and a sports complex in southern Iran.

“The UN Human Rights Council has accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades,” said White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

We are six months out now from the beginning of the Iran war, if that’s what it is. It’s not a formally declared war. It’s not even like any war we’ve seen in the past.

It began on Feb. 28 with a 38- to 39-day bombing that did enormous damage to Iran. And ever since then, it’s evened out to a tit-for-tat every couple of weeks, negotiations, a memorandum of understanding, but we should remember that it’s not like any war we’ve seen.

For a start, it is essential not to buy into the Iranian regime’s staged display of defiant statements. They all aim to convince the world that nothing has changed and that the regime remains firmly in control. The desired audience is most likely the Iranian people being held hostage and the United States and Israel, to persuade them to abandon a campaign that, in reality, is bringing the country to its knees. Do not buy this act. The regime is fighting for its survival, presumably to outlast either the US midterm elections, or, second best, the term of President Donald J. Trump.

“The main task,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified the situation, “is to bring down the terror regime in Iran. We are very close to that. We know that the entire axis will ultimately collapse.”

U.S. officials have linked high-resolution satellite imagery supplied to Iran by Chinese entities to a July missile strike on a U.S. base in Jordan that killed three American troops, the Wall Street Journal reported exclusively on Friday.

The officials did not identify the Chinese entities that provided the imagery and did not allege direct involvement by Beijing. Iran obtained images both before and after the July 17 attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, according to the report.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have attacked four cities in Saudi Arabia, wounding more than 70 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a significant expansion of the Middle East war.

Saudi Arabia said it would retaliate after the overnight strikes – reportedly involving dozens of drones and missiles – that targeted several oil facilities in the country’s south.