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Branch of Iran's armed forces that defends the political system and runs naval forces in the Persian Gulf, plus missile and asymmetric warfare programs.
Iran's security council head Mohsen Rezaei threatened regional cables, data centers and AI facilities if intense fighting resumes, according to IRNA. The threat is conditional and unspecific, while the Hormuz disruption beside it is already running.
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Pentagon planners have drafted three days of strikes on Iran that list its energy facilities among possible targets, The New York Times reported. Trump's pledge of no attack before the Nov. 3 midterms covers 26 days, so the supply risk belongs in plans for the weeks after the vote.
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Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon for new Iran strike options before the November 3 midterms, reversing his plan to wait until after the vote. Backers of a strike concede it would not cut gas prices before the election, Cryptopolitan reported.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar in Tehran trading after the country loaded no oil at its terminals in September, a first since 1979. The currency has lost 40% of its value this year while money for oil shipped before the blockade is still coming in.
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Analysts expect Iran to drag the war past the Nov. 3 midterms, even as U.S.-escorted Middle East oil exports climb to almost 13 million barrels a day. Their case is that the escorted barrels cost Tehran leverage and leave escalation as one of its two remaining options.
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Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days only if oil sanctions and the US naval blockade end, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. With Donald Trump rejecting the offer, budgets set this quarter are safer treating the disruption as the base case.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar on Tuesday, 27 days after a record 2.2 million, losing at least 12% of its dollar value. Each week the Hormuz talks stall now costs Tehran through its exchange rate and Washington through gasoline prices.
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Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its port blockade, frees frozen assets and waives oil sanctions. Tehran pitched the speed as help for Trump in November's midterms, and his own reply so far is a map calling the waterway the 'Trump Strait'.
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Iran says it is fully closing the Strait of Hormuz just as government bond rates climb worldwide. An energy shock into a rising-rate market leaves the usual offset unavailable.
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Prosecutors added eight names to a 2018 indictment over 31.5 terabytes of stolen academic work. The target set has not changed: professors' mailboxes and university libraries.
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Amir Yaryab is named as head of the IRGC's Cyber-Electronic Command and the officer directing five hacking crews, which tells water and energy operators who is at the other end of the intrusions without telling them what to hunt.
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A civil forfeiture filed on September 14 names Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale Trading, two Hong Kong entities whose Binance accounts ran about $1.69bn of volume while the exchange sat under a compliance monitor.
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A Bloomberg investigation into an unreleased Pentagon review says CENTCOM personnel expected the Maven Smart System to flag stale or contradictory intelligence by itself. Palantir says the underlying data was never its responsibility.
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Prosecutors say about $1.5 billion in Iranian oil proceeds moved through a set of interrelated wallets, and one of the two Hong Kong intermediaries had been a Binance business partner selling payment services.
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Six months into a war that has been formally under ceasefire since June, the US says it struck Iranian oil tankers and Tehran's chief negotiator promises heavier retaliation, which changes what a charterer has to underwrite.
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American strikes on five Revolutionary Guard tankers and Tehran's plan to stop unpermitted vessels have turned a current-quarter fuel line into a routing and compliance question, with Brent's seven-week high of $97 the part most plans already price.
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Traffic at 6% of normal and Brent near $94 have held for six months with no resolution in sight. Iran's vetting queue, not price, decides who sails the Gulf's main export corridor.
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Iranian officials are now saying on the record that the economy cannot take another round. What that concession changes for energy and EM books is not what the headlines imply.
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US Cyber Command disrupted Iranian air defenses during June's Operation Midnight Hammer by hitting a mapped network node, not the hardened core, according to Recorded Future News.
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