🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 27, 2026

• IRGC fires six missiles toward Strait of Hormuz — The Guard said it launched six missiles toward the strait after reporting blasts there, with renewed, intense explosions heard moments later. Armed forces spokesman Shekarchi warned any ship crossing outside Iran's designated route "will not be safe."

• Trump publicly rejects Iran's seven-day plan — "I'm rejecting their deal," Trump said, claiming "total control" of Hormuz and 29 ship transits overnight. Axios quoted a US official calling mediator exchanges positive; an Iranian source says Araghchi's team may stay in New York until Wednesday.

• US pressures states to cut Iran's air and banking ties — A Treasury official toured capitals warning them to choose Washington over Tehran; Oman, the UAE and Türkiye restricted Iranian flights. Iraq's Hamoudi called an emergency Shia framework session as protests spread from Basra to Sulaymaniyah; Trump praised PM al-Zaidi.

• Araghchi: over 5,000 Iranians killed in the war — The foreign minister told UN media the US-Israeli campaign killed more than 5,000 people, including hundreds of women and children. Iran also completed the 730 km Chabahar–Zahedan railway linking Central Asia to the Indian Ocean.

• Lavrov at UN: killing of Iran's Leader "unacceptable" — He said restoring Arab-Iranian trust is the precondition for solving Hormuz and called the Islamabad memorandum a "fair deal" worth reviving, then met Germany's Wadephul — the first such meeting since January 2022. Putin said Russia has "no reason" to attack Europe.

• Yemen: 27 Saudi strikes in 24 hours — Warplanes hit Marib's telecom towers in three waves; the Saudi-backed PLC claimed IRGC-modified weapons now threaten civil aviation over the southern Red Sea.

• Ukraine: Russia downs 105 drones — MP Dubinsky warned of state bankruptcy, with losses up 2.5-fold and soldiers unpaid; Trump admitted the war could be settled "before winter."

• EU warned of winter energy rationing — Commissioner Jorgensen said gas storage sits 12 points below last year and floated mandatory cuts; some 175,000 Germans protested the government's social reform course and 20,000 marched in Madrid over Ceuta.

• Ethiopia conflict opens new fronts near Tigré — The army chief blamed "external parties" as fighting spread in the north.

• Cuba: "the blockade is the threat" — FM Rodríguez told the UNGA sanctions amount to collective punishment; the US delegation walked out, and China's Han Zheng demanded the siege end.

• UN adds 61 firms to West Bank settlement blacklist — The rights office list now covers 214 companies over business ties to Israeli settlements.

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