🌅 COMBATE Morning Roundup | September 22, 2026

• IRGC says new missile struck US aircraft carrier — Spokesman General Mohebbi said the missile hit a US carrier about 500 km away, damaging it and, in the IRGC's assessment, causing casualties Washington never announced. Iran will also reverse-engineer a US unmanned underwater drone seized in Hormuz.

• Tehran denies seven-day Hormuz reopening reports — Kyodo and Reuters said Iran would reopen the strait within a week if Washington eased military pressure and lifted its port blockade; Iranian sources called the reports unreliable. Brent rebounded above $101.

• Pezeshkian flies to New York amid Trump meeting talk — Iran's president left for the UN assembly to air his people's wartime grievances; Araghchi told Guterres trust in the UN "has been destroyed." Rubio said Trump is open to meeting Pezeshkian, though a senior Iranian official ruled out any meeting there.

• China rejects US sanctions on Iranian airlines — Beijing called the threatened global grounding of Iranian carriers illegal, while Iran Air said flights to Istanbul, Baku and Najaf continue, with no suspension orders received.

• Britain formally joins Saudi war in Yemen — An RAF Voyager tanker based in Cyprus will refuel Saudi fighters on a mission expected to last weeks, Politico and the BBC reported. Saudi jets killed six civilians, including two infants, in a Mokha house strike.

• Sanaa bomb plot foiled; Abha airport halts — Yemeni security arrested a cell linked to Saudi intelligence over planned bombings of Sanaa markets and mosques. Abha airport suspended flights after Yemeni strikes; the IOM counted nearly 130,000 displaced in weeks.

• Russia pounds Ukrainian industry; Kyiv floats truce — Overnight strikes hit steel, chemical and defense plants across four regions, with 297 drones downed. Zelensky said Ukraine is ready for an unconditional ceasefire along the current line of contact.

• US to sign Greenland security pact — Denmark, Greenland and Washington sign an Arctic deal in New York that Trump says gives the US permanent control over Greenland's security needs; a Cold War-era base will reopen there.

• China expels two senior commanders — Xi Jinping ousted Zhang Yuxia and Liu Zhenli for serious violations; the Daily Telegraph said Zhang is accused of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the US.

• Republicans break with Trump over Iran war — Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson urged a quick end to the conflict as diesel prices set records, while Trump insisted ammunition stockpiles are rising to unprecedented levels.

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