🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | October 12, 2026

• Iran calls US reply to its seven Hormuz conditions "insufficient" — Security council secretary Rezaei said Washington answered via Qatari mediation after approaching Tehran through Pakistan, Qatar and Iraq, but the strait stays closed and talks frozen until all seven demands — including sanctions relief and compensation — are met.

• Third tanker hits sea mine in Hormuz — After a supertanker and a shuttle carrier carrying 750,000 barrels struck mines on unauthorized exit routes, the IRGC Navy warned that vessels switching off navigation systems will be treated as hostile. Brent crude hit $105.5 a barrel.

• Rezaei: Trump turned to oil "smuggling" via Oman — He said the CENTCOM chief runs the operation using the UAE military and hired criminals, with small boats ferrying crude to tankers, and that Iran strikes five or six of them nightly. He warned US assets in the UAE have not yet been targeted.

• Yemen strikes Riyadh airport again; Dammam airport shut — A projectile hit Terminal 4, sparking a fire and wounding several. Sanaa reported four operations in 24 hours — Riyadh airport, two Aramco facilities and King Fahd airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia's third-busiest, which suspended flights; Jeddah airspace was disrupted.

• Trump declares second Russia-Ukraine "energy ceasefire" — A Duma official said Moscow has no information on the truce; Zelensky called the announcement news to him, said Kiev would honor it if Russia does, and accused Moscow of striking Kiev and Kharkiv energy sites after the declaration.

• Iran holds largest war games since February — IRGC and air force drills nationwide launched ballistic missiles, Shahed-136 drones and F-14 jets over Tehran. Bloomberg reported Iran preserved its missile and drone factories, and Western officials say Russia is supplying missiles to Iran.

• Tehran offers to mediate between Riyadh and Sanaa — Foreign Minister Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart the crisis has no military solution and Iran is ready to help start dialogue. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey jointly demanded Yemen's Ansar Allah halt attacks immediately.

• Poland arrests suspect in plot to kill PM Tusk — Police detained a man suspected of planning attacks on the prime minister and Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz, the interior minister said.

• Bessent: no Iran clash before US midterms — The Treasury secretary said Trump doesn't expect confrontation with Iran until after the elections, and accused Europeans of hypocrisy for still buying Russian oil. Iran's central bank chief said Bessent's two-week deadline for economic collapse expired with no collapse.

• Israel threatens to assassinate Hamas political chief — War Minister Katz said Khalil al-Hayya's "turn has come" to join slain leaders; Hamas called the threat state terrorism and urged mediators to respond.

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