🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | October 07, 2026

• Iran security chief vows Hormuz stays shut — SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei told Washington: "You were defeated in the military war, you will be defeated in the economic war," insisting the strait will not reopen under threat and Iran will not back down.

• Impeachment motion filed against FM Araghchi — Tehran lawmaker Amir-Hossein Sabeti registered the motion in the Majlis, a direct challenge to Iran's diplomatic leadership mid-war.

• Qatar tables new Iran-US mediation proposals — After Doha talks with Iran's interior minister, Qatar presented initiatives to be relayed to President Pezeshkian; both sides called the dialogue constructive.

• Iran says arms production up 2.5-fold — The Defense Ministry reported weapons, equipment and ammunition output rose 2.5 times since the war began, with some systems more than tripling.

• Oman evacuates tanker crew as Hormuz attacks continue — Oman's air force rescued 10 crew from a Panama-flagged crude tanker hit near Musandam; India said 12 sailors were wounded by an unidentified projectile. CENTCOM denied an MH-60R helicopter crashed in the Red Sea.

• Trump's Hormuz claims collide with $140 oil — He said strait flows exceed pre-war levels and the US needs no Iranian oil, yet physical Forties crude topped $140 a barrel, a war record, with Brent at $101; Vitol says Western reserves are depleted.

• Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani pact prepares deployments — An emergency meeting agreed to activate collective defense mechanisms and prepare possible military deployments on Saudi territory as the Yemen war widens; Pakistan tested an upgraded Fattah-4 cruise missile.

• Yemen: Saudi-aligned brigade commander killed — Yemen's Ansar Allah said fighters took strategic Taiz heights, killing the 35th Armored Brigade commander and seizing his bases and armor.

• G7 grants Ukraine $50 billion from frozen Russian assets — The loans draw on profits of immobilized assets as Kyiv's public debt hit $215.5 billion. Russian drones struck Kiev's North Bridge, tilting the military supply span.

• France closes schools as protests swell — Classes are suspended nationwide until week's end after roughly 450,000 marched in 30-plus cities; 5,000-plus arrests and 215 injured students were reported. Le Pen unveiled a €140 billion savings program for 2027.

• Puigdemont cleared to return to Spain — The Supreme Court lifted his arrest warrant after the Constitutional Court blessed the amnesty law, ending nearly a decade of self-exile.

• US redeploys Reaper drones to Colombia and Ecuador — Lawyers and lawmakers warn lethal strikes on suspected traffickers amount to illegal extrajudicial killings; the UN says cocaine remains cheap and available.

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