🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 25, 2026

• US, Iran weigh phased end to war, Reuters reports — New York negotiators are discussing Tehran reopening Hormuz in exchange for Washington lifting its blockade and possibly freeing frozen assets; Araghchi said Iran handed mediators a proposal giving the US seven days to meet terms, none beyond the Islamabad MoU.

• Pezeshkian: Iran would give up 60%-enriched uranium in a deal — He told Fox News Tehran wants an agreement before November's US midterms, said Yemen's Ansar Allah "don't take direction from us," and described Iran's leader as in full health after a seven-hour meeting.

• UAE shuts airspace to Iranian flights; Tehran reciprocates — Iran closed its airspace to UAE carriers in answer to the Emirates' full closure, as Azerbaijani, Turkmen and Emirati compliance with US sanctions blocks Iranian airliners; other Iraqi airports remain open after Baghdad shut its own to them.

• Colombia breaks diplomatic relations with Iran — The foreign ministry said ties were severed effective September 19 over what it called Iran's "presumed ties to international terrorist groups."

• Netanyahu booed as dozens of delegations walk out of his UN speech — He brandished a Starlink terminal meant for the Iranian delegation and a pager, predicted Iran's government will fall and branded departing envoys "moral cowards." Iran's empty seat carried a Soleimani portrait; Susan Sarandon was arrested at protests outside.

• Yemen strikes Riyadh and Aramco; Greek Patriot intercepts near Yanbu — Yemeni forces reported hitting a Riyadh headquarters and Saudi oil sites plus a missile-drone wave on Jizan; a Greek-operated Patriot downed a missile and drone, and Macron said France will deploy troops and air defenses to protect the Yanbu terminal.

• Trump hosts Xi with B-2 flyover; "new trade agreement" announced — Xi said economic teams reached a fresh deal, "good news for the world economy," with AI a big topic of talks; Moscow welcomed the idea of a Putin-Trump-Xi meeting at November's APEC summit.

• United Russia claims record 349 Duma seats — Medvedev called it a historic result as SVR chief Naryshkin accused the EU of interfering in the vote with a pre-written critique.

• Russia says elite Ukrainian units encircled at Dobropolye — Moscow also reported striking an Odessa hub distributing European military aid; Peskov branded the EU's €8-billion transfer of frozen-asset revenues to Ukraine "theft."

• NATO boosts intelligence sharing on suspected Russian sabotage — SACEUR Grynkewich called a limited Russian attack unlikely but not dismissible and denied Moscow could exploit post-Iran-war US stockpile strains; Estonia's top diplomat urged allies to calm down.

• Morocco's PAM wins election; Tigray rebels press offensive — The party took 97 of 395 seats on 38% turnout; Ethiopian officials said Tigray fighters seized regional airports, threatening renewed civil war.

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