🌅 COMBATE Morning Roundup | September 28, 2026

• Eight US Marines injured in Iranian missile strike on Navy ship in Hormuz — NBC, citing US officials, revealed the previously unreported attack from two weeks ago; the Marines suffered concussion-like symptoms but soon returned to duty. The Pentagon declined comment.

• Iran's Leader: enemy will soon be driven from the Arabian Sea — Mojtaba Khamenei said US forces no longer dare enter Hormuz after "painful blows" from its defenders, vowed Iran will never return to the era its enemy dreams of, and hailed Nasrallah on his martyrdom anniversary.

• Oil tops $107 after Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz plan — Brent hit $107.75 and WTI $95.55 as markets priced a prolonged conflict. Trump said he is "very seriously" weighing a ban on US diesel exports and claimed 20 million barrels were escorted through Hormuz over the weekend.

• Iran tells UN Trump's threats to destroy it violate international law — Tehran wrote to Guterres and the Security Council. Araghchi said Washington has still not formally conveyed its rejection through mediators; Axios reports a new indirect round could open Monday.

• Pezeshkian offers to help end the Saudi-Yemen war — Calling Saudis and Yemenis "brothers," he told Al Jazeera Iran stands ready to help resolve rather than fuel the conflict, and said the US can only "dream" of erasing Iran from the map.

• Trump: Zelensky may scale back strikes on Russian refineries — Trump said he told Zelensky "you're creating global problems" over the attacks, and the Ukrainian leader signaled he might limit them.

• Netanyahu readies ICC case against Erdogan — Israeli media say the suit will target Turkey's treatment of Kurds and alleged Hamas funding — even as Netanyahu faces his own ICC arrest warrant.

• Israel strips Dutch diplomats of status over settlement-goods ban — Ramallah-based staff must surrender Israeli-issued documents within seven days after the Netherlands banned trade in settlement products.

• Ben Gvir threatens to "execute" a prisoner; Smotrich urges annexation — A video shows the minister telling a Palestinian detainee "I want to execute you," while Smotrich called for war and annexing Gaza and territory up to the Litani river in Lebanon.

• Brnabic becomes Serbia's acting president; RN enters French Senate — Vucic formally handed his powers to the parliament speaker; France's National Rally formed its first-ever Senate group, and Hungary's parliament lifted PM Magyar's immunity.

• Russia tightens the Dobropolie pincer as EU raids own missile stocks — Moscow claimed Novovodyanoye and Ulanovo and struck Kiev fuel depots; Kallas urged EU states to send Kyiv their air-defense interceptors and be "compensated later."

• US carrier Theodore Roosevelt deploys toward the Middle East — Israeli media say it will likely relieve the George Washington near Hormuz.

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