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Armed conflict between the US and Iran that began in February 2026 with joint US-Israeli strikes, continuing through periodic strikes and pauses.
Iran's security council head Mohsen Rezaei threatened regional cables, data centers and AI facilities if intense fighting resumes, according to IRNA. The threat is conditional and unspecific, while the Hormuz disruption beside it is already running.
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USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after a record 321-day deployment supporting the US war with Iran. The Navy's published figures measure what its air wing flew and burned, while the strain on the crew came to light through Congress and the press.
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Trump ruled out US strikes on Iran before the November 3 midterms and kept the naval blockade in force. Brent still traded near $103 a barrel on Friday, and a pledge that lapses on election day returns no Iranian oil to the market.
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US military trauma care built over 20 years is struggling in the Iran war because forward US-run hospitals are gone, Business Insider reported. Central Command counters that 95% of the wounded returned to duty within hours or days, though most of them had concussion-related injuries.
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Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon for new Iran strike options before the November 3 midterms, reversing his plan to wait until after the vote. Backers of a strike concede it would not cut gas prices before the election, Cryptopolitan reported.
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US Air Force bombers have left RAF Fairford for their home bases after six arrests in a British terror inquiry, over a threat Trump says is linked to Iran. The move protects the aircraft, but Britain keeps the base and an Iran-linked proxy threat that its own officials say was already active.
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Trump is sending about 9,000 troops and a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East while calling more bombing of Iran after Nov. 3 "possible." For oil and rates, the case for a longer war rests on his refusal of an Iranian truce that offered to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran says it has an official US reply to its proposal to end the war, and the rial has passed 2.5 million to the dollar, a record low. Tehran's price for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is cash, and a currency falling this fast makes each week of talks more expensive for Tehran.
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Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days only if oil sanctions and the US naval blockade end, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. With Donald Trump rejecting the offer, budgets set this quarter are safer treating the disruption as the base case.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar on Tuesday, 27 days after a record 2.2 million, losing at least 12% of its dollar value. Each week the Hormuz talks stall now costs Tehran through its exchange rate and Washington through gasoline prices.
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Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its port blockade, frees frozen assets and waives oil sanctions. Tehran pitched the speed as help for Trump in November's midterms, and his own reply so far is a map calling the waterway the 'Trump Strait'.
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Donald Trump says he rejected Iran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Tehran says mediators have not formally delivered that refusal. Iran ties reopening to its conditions and more talks, so the strait stays shut until Qatar's mediators carry Washington's final word.
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Fortune's account of the global selloff traces a chain from oil above $100 a barrel to the debt behind AI data centers. The single testable number in it is a yield level named by one investment chief.
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The Congressional Budget Office counts about $38bn of additional Pentagon spending in five months, $21.7bn of it replacing spent munitions, and says returning inventories to their previous levels takes at least five years.
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AWS's status update says the strike damage exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ services were built to withstand. Customers who held data in a single zone in Bahrain or in mec1-az2 are being told it is not coming back.
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Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in writing that eight Lincoln strike group sailors attempted suicide on deployment. For leaders running a long surge, it shows how far a readiness summary can sit from what the work costs the people doing it.
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Mike Waltz has now twice declined to say when the Iran war ends, in July and again on CNN on September 20. The administration's own early projection for major combat operations was four to six weeks.
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